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"standard time" is revisionist bullshit (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EST should be -4 not -5. this is fucking reactionary and you can't expect me to remember this shit. fuck congress for ruining this possibility after passing it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Standard time was the standard: noon was when sun was directly overhead. Daylight saving time is revisionist bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nerd Actually that would be when the sun is on the meridian. The sun can never be directly overhead unless you are in the tropics

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Thank you, Mr. Data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Standard time should be treated like the four humors or the plum pudding model of the atom; It was the best we had for a while, but it’s obsolete since we discovered a better way

Reject tradition, embrace modernity

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Daylight savings time only saves daylight in the context of you spending your entire day working and being spared the paltry scraps of the day, and outside of a 40+ hour workweek is a meaningless shift of numbers on a clock that only serves to move noon and midnight away from any kind of astronomical or biological signifiers

Reject modernity, embrace tradition, demand to work less for moneygrubbing assholes