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dales

Not Observing

Oct 30, 2006 18:29

This weekend marked the annual start (or is it end?) of Daylight Savings time, the stupidest "money saving" idea ever conceived ( Read more... )

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pyrtolin October 31 2006, 01:58:11 UTC

We already spend 7 of 12 months on DST- starting next year we'll be doing 9 of 12. We're back on normal time right now, and it's nice actually having light when I wake up. It's going to suck next year when we have to wait a whole extra month to get that hour back- by then it'll still be dark when I leave for work anyway.

duckmonster October 31 2006, 15:54:48 UTC

I'd rather it's dark when I leave for work than dark when I get home.

dales October 31 2006, 15:58:16 UTC

Then leave for work when it's dark; I don't see why we have to mess with the clocks all the time.

duckmonster October 31 2006, 16:40:08 UTC

%Because my company/project/boss is totally cool with me bugging out at 3pm, as long as I came in early enough.%

I think my point was, "Let's leave the clocks the way they are in the summer," not "I'm cool with switching them around all the time."

The only reason I phrased it that way is that some other post seemed to imply that the summer time is the one that's unnatural.

Thread 5

piratechan October 31 2006, 02:06:37 UTC

I'm all for making Daylight Savings Time into our year round standard time.

dales October 31 2006, 16:01:03 UTC

Or the "normal" workday could be 10-6.

I'm willing to deal with time zones, but "noon" should still be when the sun is more-or-less at its highest point in the sky, not an hour before.

duckmonster October 31 2006, 16:42:30 UTC

Eh, see, if I got to have my way, we wouldn't try to force the daylight and the clock to match. Workdays would still be at the same times, daylight-wise, as they are in the summer, but the hours that we called it would be different. We'd all just use GMT and be done with it.

dales October 31 2006, 16:50:46 UTC

UTC FTW!

(For the TLA-inept: Universal Coordinated Time For The Win)

Thread 7

jameel October 31 2006, 12:24:46 UTC

Daylight Savings Time is fucking evil.

ouchfest November 1 2006, 12:10:13 UTC

Monday my drive home from the hospital involved the setting sun in my eyes followed by darkness, and I left at 4:30pm. That is bullshit.

Also, I continue to endorse my idea of a global time-zone, 36-hour days, and alternating sleep shifts for people for maximum productivity.