Right, we have low sunlight in the winter. Moving it around really doesn't help much, but there are significant and observable negative effects to the switch. Just leave it alone.
Right, we have low sunlight in the winter. Moving it around really doesn't help much, but there are significant and observable negative effects to the switch. Just leave it alone.
And there are significant and observable negative effects to not switching and keeping daylight time year round. If we’re going to change how we do things based on health and science, keeping standard year round is the only way to go.
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Standard time people are weird. Need the light before work instead of after. I bet you want your dessert before dinner too. I bet that dessert is a Big Turk or a Mounds bar. So weird.
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For me the earlier light in the winter makes winter so much more tolerable. If we quit switching I’d probably adjust my work hours to compensate.
The problem is there is no good time zone to make up for 8hrs of daylight.
For me it is way more depressing to enter twilight at like 4pm and see the sun completely disappear by 430.
At least you can engineer around the morning darkness with a SAD lamp.
But I've always thought our institutions can make finer tuned adjustments (adjust school times by ~30 minutes from Nov-Feb) and the private sector should follow suit if they're smart.
I also wonder how much our evolving entertainment media factors into this. For a lot of years boomers would have the TV on from dinnertime until the late evening news and then go to sleep (still the case for my parents). With streaming we aren't shepherded into this same time constrained habit where our crappy Chicago procedural ends at 10:58pm. Sports are the main thing that compel an 'end time' now.
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Standard time people are weird. Need the light before work instead of after. I bet you want your dessert before dinner too. I bet that dessert is a Big Turk or a Mounds bar. So weird.
It’s just funny how stupid and circular the argument always goes.
“Changing clocks is so harmful, we need to get rid of it! Studies show it has adverse and detrimental effects on health!”
“Ok sure, but switching to year round daylight also has adverse and detrimental effects on health. We need to change to standard.”
“No, no. We should only listen to the science that proves changing clocks is wrong. Not the science that says standard is better than daylight for our health.”
“But I thought we were choosing the option that’s better for people’s health?”
“No. That’s a perfectly cromulent reason to get rid of the time change but we should pick our new permanent time based on the most convenient hours of sunlight, regardless of the science.”
“Well if we want the most convenient hours of sunlight we should change time twice a year. If we’re ignoring the health implications, that seems like the best compromise.”
“Drrrrr”
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I have 5(FIVE!) clocks in my house that require manual adjustment….there goes my hour.
Lol. This is funny. My wife likes to have a clock in every room so she hates DST because she has to re-set them all.
It is her job to re-set them, because they are her clocks.
I too have a clock in every room I'm in. Its called..."My watch." And it re-sets itself. Job. Done.
Sorted.
"Why do you look at your watch? Theres a clock on the wall?"
Why do I want to look across the room when the answer is literally attached to my wrist? If I want to be a real curmudgeon about it I could haul out this intensely inconvenient device out of my pocket and lo and behold! The time is right there too!
As opposed to the Cat-Clock you bought at Winners a decade ago thats on the other side of the room built by disinterested children in Indonesia that can barely keep time as it is!
Years ago my kids bought me a Star Wars clock for Christmas. I like it. Its neat. I put it up in my office. But I felt like "Captain Hook" from Peter Pan.
That thing was so goddamned loud and annoying with the ticking that I just took the batteries out and its a decoration. I dont actually need it to tell time.
For instance. Right now I am sitting in my office. I have 3 monitors. They all show the time in the bottom right corner. My phone is front of me. It shows the time. I have a smart TV on the wall, it shows the time too. Oh! And I still am wearing a watch. Which....believe it or not....tells the time.
And they all auto-correct for DST.
Oh! And my Point-of-Sale machine! I'd never look at that for the time, but its there too if I need it!
Hell...my Printer in the corner has the time if I need it.
I think I'm covered.
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Elon, just change the name back to Twitter. It has been how long and people are still writing, “… posted on X, formerly known as Twitter”.
It’s like anytime an article mentions a Metric unit and they have brackets next to explaining what that is in Miles/Fahrenheit/whatever.
Agree.
The most hilarious example of this sort of thing is the Pearl Milling Company. Says right on the label, "formerly Aunt Jemima" just in slightly smaller font.
The most hilarious example of this sort of thing is the Pearl Milling Company. Says right on the label, "formerly Aunt Jemima" just in slightly smaller font.
I just wish they'd had some fun with it.
"The Artist Formerly Known as Aunt Jemima!"
Or just re-brand the whole thing to 'Uncle Jemima.'
"You want some syrup or what??"
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The most hilarious example of this sort of thing is the Pearl Milling Company. Says right on the label, "formerly Aunt Jemima" just in slightly smaller font.
The good thing about that is, unless you work in the pancake industry specifically, you don’t incessantly hear “Pearl Milling Company, formerly Aunt Jemima, pancake mix”.
They shouldn’t even have clocks unless it’s part of their function. My oven can turn on/off at preset times, but my microwave and toaster oven can’t do anything based on the time of day so why do I need a bunch of clocks in my kitchen, all running slightly fast or slow, so even if I set them based in the time on my phone, they’ll never stay the same.
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