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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/
You do realize changing the idea of changing the clocks to be either one hour forward or one hour backwards doesn't change the fact that the sun changes position throughout the year.
The summer will feel long and the winter will feel short no matter what. At least in the US.
You can hate it all you want but it's to account for the fact the days do actually get shorter and longer.
Take it from someone who doesn't have to change their clocks, it's way easier to deal with that way. The whole process is so gradual you barely even notice it.
Well I guess in New England it works out better cause it does get dark out earlier in the winter. It's like some Baltic regions being am/pm vs 24hr.
Well the past three years I've adopted using 24hr time format (I loathe military time as a term because military time to me, refer to somewhere that's occupied by the military and thus, is politically incorrect in my head) vs AM/PM from April 7th to October 9th. It's been wonderful and it works out well because during that time of year it's light out longer so 24hr time makes sense to work with. When it's October 9th to April 7th, it's dark out longer so it makes more sense to have the distinction between am/pm.
If they got rid of DST they'd have to make sense of when it gets darker earlier, otherwise it makes no sense.
Like I read in Baltic areas that are further up north they use am/pm because it stays lighter out longer, so they need a distinction of day and night with their time format. What would that mean for an area that got darker earlier?
Basically, 5pm isn't going to be magically light out or give you more hours of the day, when the periods of the year that are known to get darker earlier, still get darker earlier. 5pm will be dark as shit where I am in the winter and it will be light out during this time of year. It's not going to magically change the rotation of the planet to give the sacred hours of it being light out longer during the periods of the year when it's not.