President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
He’ll probably fuck it up by pushing for year-round DST (where the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8 AM in the winter).
I’m fine with that, but I think we should settle on Daylight Savings time. You know, when time is an hour ahead of what it is now.
Standard time is the WORST. My political party might be permanent Daylight Savings Time
If we had year-round DST, the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8 AM in the winter.
And yet the happiest countries in the world spend most of the day in winter in darkness, some completely.
Though to be fair most of that has to do with how the governments tend to be more socialist.
Great, do timezones next!
Id prefer this to but many are against it. To me a number is a number, if I say it’s 8 o’clock then it should be 8 o’clock. Not 8am eastern, 7am central, 5am Pacific… (yes we always ignore mountain time).
If I drive 15 mins east the clocks shouldn’t jump. States like Florida have 2 time zones within them.
What time is the meeting at? 12, fucking 12, I don’t care if you are working from Japan today, it’s at 12.
Now for the fun part. It’s 13, not 1 again. What time is mass at? 12. I don’t want to specify it is midnight mass 12, it’s fucking 12, 1 of them.
Then there are no mistakes to be made.
But the time indicates your relative position in the Earth’s rotation. The number 13 in reference to the rotational cycle means the sun in the sky is a particular number of degrees away from your position on the earth and it only that particular value in that one geographic slice of the planet. You can personally choose to use UTC/GMT for yourself if that’s what you want to do, and meeting invites you send and receive will all correct accordingly for the configured time zone.
I have to cross the timezone in Florida often for work, and it gets hella confusing when I need to tell Medicaid I saw one client 11-12 in the eastern time zone, and another at 11:15-12:15 in the central time zone, and my EMR system automatically uses my device’s time zone, but I’m completing both billing notes in the time zone I don’t live in
That’s nice for people with low UTC offsets, but will be incredibly confusing for most of the Earth’s population who are closer to the date line. Imagine it being Tuesday in the morning and Wednesday in the afternoon!
Now, 24h time I’m 100% in favor of. AM/PM can fuck right off.
Everyone can agree that changing the clocks is annoying, but having either of the two times for the full year is kind of shitty, too.
I’m for permanent daylight. Not a morning person so i hate the sun coming up so early. The mornings should be dark and gloomy (because I have to go to work, work sucks) plus the added benefit of actually having some light when you get off work. The sun going down right when I’m finally off is kind of insulting and depressing.
Getting anyone to come to an agreement on this will be impossible since its based on preference.
That’s why you base it on science and will you look at that, regular time is better, who would have thought?
