No one can agree on which time to use so time change will never go away. It’s really annoying. I don’t give a shit which we use, just toss of the ducking time change. It’s 1 hour, people gotta chill.
Fuck at this point does it even matter? The time change is bullshit on a baseline so long as it’s done on the state level it shouldnt be too bad since eventually one of them will probably win out.
I am a champion of the idea of keeping daylight saving over standard time but I am more and more starting to think that the time change is the best compromise we are going to get with the people who insist on getting to work at 8am in the light.
I just think humans don’t work well with such a sudden change even just 1 hr. Maybe there’s a way we could add/remove a minute every day over two months or something lol
Now do daylight savings!!
No one can agree on which time to use so time change will never go away. It’s really annoying. I don’t give a shit which we use, just toss of the ducking time change. It’s 1 hour, people gotta chill.
I say we compromise and just shift to the half hour in between then. What a stupid disagreement
Yeah why not. Anything is better than this dumb time change
Fuck at this point does it even matter? The time change is bullshit on a baseline so long as it’s done on the state level it shouldnt be too bad since eventually one of them will probably win out.
They tried in Ohio. They couldnt stop running over kids waiting for the bus in the morning dark so it was reverted.
Just get rid of half of it. I love “fall back.” I hate “spring ahead.”
Fall back every year! Yes! No spring forward!
I like it initially, but after a couple weeks I want to die. Walking out of the office into cold darkness at 4-4:30pm is soul crushing.
Exactly. Fuck DST.
I am a champion of the idea of keeping daylight saving over standard time but I am more and more starting to think that the time change is the best compromise we are going to get with the people who insist on getting to work at 8am in the light.
Let’s look at NY city.
June 21th longest day, sunrise is at 5:24 am (Set 8:31 pm)
December 21th longest night, sunrise is at 6:42 am (Set 4:32 pm)
If you got rid of daylight savings time then the sun would rise at 4:24 am in June and set at 7:31 pm.
(Most people in NY probably want the extra hour of light at 7:31 pm instead of 4:24 am)
If you kept permanent daylight savings then the sun would rise at 7:42 am in December and set at 5:32 pm)
(Most people in NY probably want some light before 8 because it’s going to be dark after dinner anyways)
So many people are awake before 8 am compared to 5 am
So many people enjoy the light at 7:30 pm in the summer
Switching really is the sweet spot for NY
Location is definitely important too in hating or liking DST
Ontonagon, Mi sun sets at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)
Dexter, Me sun sets at 4:10 pm tonight (6:33 am rise)
Same time zone, both northern cities.
If we didn’t get off DST Ontonagon wouldn’t see the sunrise until almost 9 am today
People in Dexter might have preferred to stay on DST getting light between 7:33 am to 5:10 pm today
The farther west you live in a time zone the less you like DST generally. Farther east, the more you like it.
Ontonagon is so west it should really be in Central Time zone.
If that was the case then the sun would set at 4:25 pm tonight (6:58 am rise) (basically Dexter ME times)
At that point they might want to stay on DST and it would make it exactly what it was today, sunset at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)
I just think humans don’t work well with such a sudden change even just 1 hr. Maybe there’s a way we could add/remove a minute every day over two months or something lol
Programmers would be on suicide watch if we did that
As I was typing it I was trying to figure out how it would work on electronic devices and my head exploded. Let alone just your everyday clock.
They tried permanent DST in the '70s for a few years. People hated it so much we went back to switching the clocks.