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Have you or anyone you know ever been an hour late/early showing up somewhere the first morning of daylight savings time clock change? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ml

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I've never made that mistake and I've never personally witnessed anyone else slip either, but surely someone somewhere has. Especially in the years before smartphones & atomic clocks existed, when we had to manually set all our clocks.

I know that's why they always make it happen on a Saturday night Sunday morning so for most people it won't affect their work or school schedule the next morning

but Sunday mornings aren't always schedule-free for everyone. Plenty of people go to work/church/obligations on Sunday mornings,

so surely there's a non-zero chance that some clock mistakes have happened on daylight savings time Sunday mornings.

Do YOU know anyone who's made that mistake?

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd just as soon be done with the whole thing. I don't know if it ever really helped but I certainly don't think it serves any purpose now.

Pretty much everyone agrees that we all hate it and it needs to be stopped. It started for crop harvesting purposes in the olden days before light bulbs were invented, am I remembering that correctly?

For decades people have been begging for this to stop. But government has been so damn slow & inefficient & useless about it.

Last November or December, you know those months when the hours of daylight are agonizingly short, like only 9 or 10 hours of daylight, I got in a conversation with a couple of colleagues in the break room about this and we researched the current sunset / sunrise times,

we did some quick math and realized that even if the govt abolished the clock change, the best we could do is have the sun rise at 7am and set at 5pm. Which would still be super depressing because we're all stuck at work during those hours. We want to at least see the sunset when we leave work in the evening, just to feel alive & human for a brief moment, but in winter it's so depressing to leave work and it's pitch black like midnight outside even though it's only 6:30pm 🤣 Yes my work day ends at 6:30pm.

Bottom line is those winter months are dark & depressing as hell and no artificial clock adjustments can ever remedy that.

But yeah the government needs to get off its ass and abolish this useless time-change practice.

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

I've read a few explanations but I feel like I'm missing a core concept. I cannot understand what reasonable person would, instead of moving things around on a schedule according to the season, propose to move all the clocks in the world back one hour, then forward one hour a few months later, forever as a serious solution. It just seems too absurd a solution to such a mundane problem to be a real thing. And yet it is 🤷‍♂️