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I don't understand why it never occurred to anyone that they could just change the times they do things instead of changing the clock
Pretty sure it did, and would lead to conversations like "Oh by the way boss, for the next 6 months I'll be coming in an hour late. You guys are cool with flex time, right?"
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Technically, that's sorta what we do... We all agree to make everything one hour off, including the clock.
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This would be a Warhammer 40K thing.
On all ships of the Imperium, using complex mathematics and ancient tomes to achieve synchronisation across the galaxy and even inside the warp, the clocks are changed by one hour twice a year, in an elaborate ritual.
No one dares ask the reason behind it, but it must be done, to appease the machine god.
Programmers and engineers everywhere agree. Fuck DST.
Oh boy, here I go posting my favorite YouTube video again: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY
That is either the video about timezones (btw: fuck timezones, all my homies use UTC) or I'm about to get rick rolled.
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Only UTC all over the world even better
I for one disagree, DST > Standard time. That said though fuck the time change, choose one and stick to it.
Floridian here. Wtf we finally do something right and vote to stay on DST year round and Congress won't let it happen? It's been YEARS that it's been on the table with Congress. I will give them an excuse for not getting any work done on Hang Mike Pence day, but really this is getting a bit annoying.
They won't tell you the Bell riots were actually about daylight savings time.
Imagine how fucking complex it would be arrange an appointment with somebody on another planet.
"See you at 11 o clock then?"
"Eh, we've only got 10 hours in a day. Spins like a motherfucker."
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I regret to inform all of you that it is technically Daylight Saving Time and not Daylight Savings Time and now you must suffer with this information with me
Man i can't wait to be insufferable in a whole new way! Rather than my suffering you have given me the power of pedantry. And i will use this power for evil
I would seriously consider living in Utopia Planitia.
Like, I'll take basic crew quarters as long as my porthole has a view of the yards.
I bet the Vulcans never tried to "Save Daylight" by changing the clocks twice a year
Vulcans have an aneurysm trying to study Earth history.
Vulcans have an aneurysm trying to study Earth history.
Cue the copypasta: https://reactormag.com/the-answer-to-why-humans-are-so-central-in-star-trek/
I always loved this one:
Klingons: okay we don't get it
Vulcan science academy: what what?
Klingons: You Vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you're also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way. Why do you let them run your Federation?
VSA: Look. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they don't do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they're offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby star into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip.
VSA: They did that last week, we have the write-up right here. It's getting published in about six hundred scientific journals across two hundred different disciplines because of how many established theories their ridiculous little experiment has just called into question. Also, they did turn that sun into a torus, and no one actually knows how.
VSA: This is why we let them do whatever the hell they want.
Klingons: Can we be a part of your Federation?
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It's much more logical to blow up the sun instead.
When Vulcans decide to save daylight, they build a Dyson Sphere.
No, they would have been exceedingly logical and rational, and never done anything other than Standard Time, which would have seen local noon line up as close as possible with solar noon.
Because why call it “noon” if it’s more than a half-hour out?
Idk man... Arizona??
(Source: lived there. But also, for your intellectual consideration, fuck dst)
Indiana used to only have DST near Louisville and Chicago. Then Mitch Daniels ran a first failed campaign for governor on the "give Indiana DST" platform. When he ran again and was re-elected, he gave Indiana DST.
I was born and raised in Indiana, but I was living in California when it happened. It sucked that I had to move back and still deal with the DST I had to deal with in California.
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I never thought DST was a big deal until I lived somewhere without it, and let me tell you that sunlight from 5 to 8:30 is infinitely better than 4 to 7:30. What percentage of people are awake at 4 vs 5 do you think?
All I'm saying is first light at 3 AM sucks ass
Where I live we have sunlight from 5:20 to 22:00 in summer. This means going to bed while it's still light outside. We're actually in the wrong time zone though, the sun is at the highest point somewhere around 14:00 in the summer.
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Technically we need to stay in Daylight Savings Time. I.e. what we have now with more light in the evening. We just came from standard time: more light in the morning. We just need to stop changing now.
The sun rising even later in the winter is far worse than rising earlier in the summer. It is also giving in to the idea that 'business hours', which are lopsided to after noon, needing to drive everyone's clocks instead of the sun.
9 to 5 or 8 to 5 business hours are the problem. Just make business hours an even 8 to 4 and you have the exact same evening hours as DST but mornings are not any later in the winter than they are with standard time.
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I think we're the seeing the difference in location in the comments lol. People that don't live with 0 sunlight in winter, because youre at work for those hours, probably don't understand. It's actually OK for states to cancel DLS if they convert to standard, but not the spring forward time. I heard that's why MN can't change theirs permanently, because they want spring forward time but that's not legal federally.
Yeah, I'm not even that far north but having sunset before 5pm locally is pretty bad. I'd personally rather have sunrise by 830 rather than 730. The time change just got us sunlight for any amount of time post 6pm.
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Even with the loss of an hour, it's daylight until 9:30 pm here during the summer. I'm okay with losing an hour. What's rough is that the sun goes down at 4pm in the winter, even with the gained hour.
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