Let's just stop this nonsense.
I'm not even attached to winter or summertime, but just stick to one instead of changing it every six months.
Started a thread about this in [email protected]
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
98 points (94.5% liked)
Map Enthusiasts
3436 readers
326 users here now
For the map enthused!
Rules:
-
post relevant content: interesting, informative, and/or pretty maps
-
be nice
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I'm attached to summer time personally
I don't want it going dark at 15:30 what can I say, 16:30 isn't much of an improvement but at least it's something
Is that really worth it if in winter sun wont be up till 11 during the weeks that are scientifically known to already cause a depressive mood? (Blue monday)
EDIT; blue monday is apparently labeled pseudo science, still i much prefer a dark summer night with garden lights over waking up what is essentially the middle of the natural night during the colder months.
This morning the sun rose at 6:48. This afternoon it will set at 16:38.
Few people who work 9-5 are going to benefit from it being light at around 6:30 any day of the week (7:30 is still enough for a morning run), yet on the weekends the extra hour to make it light until 19:00 will be so much more valuable for meeting with friends or going out with family etc.
attached to summer time
what I don’t understand is why stop at 60 minutes: if we really prefer bright evenings then why not 90 minutes or even a few hours?
Here's the thing. In the US if your state wants to stop changing their clocks, the can do so right now. Arizona and Hawaii are already not changing their clocks. The problem is the people that want permanent DST. That takes an act of congress.
My suggestion. Get the legislators to stop with the clock changing bullshit, then get the employers to shift the working hours so people can have their extra daylight in the summer.
Step 1: Ask the people of Europe if they want to keep DST Step 2: Most of them say no but you keep it anyway Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit?
That poll really wasn't representative. Very few people even realised that it was happening or how to find it. If I remember correctly it was more of a German domestic political happening that somehow got elevated to EU level.
EU figured that they'd need to leave it up to the individual states to decide.
I think most people still want to stop changing time, but they don't necessarily agree on whether to keep normal time or daylight savings time.
Everyone is waiting for everyone else to set the new standar because no one wants wildly different time zones in Europe.
Sounds like California.
Unpopular opinion: Just get rid of time zones altogether and go with GMT.
We're in the 21st century, our lives don't need to be scheduled by the sun.
Not all that unpopular but it would require global coordination, for now best we can do seems to be more wars.
"The time wars" sounds kinda cool
Why do we need more sun, in summer, in Australia.
In summer, I'd rather have more daylight at 7:30pm than 4:30am.
Conversely, in the heat of summer, I don't want to have to wait until 8:30pm for the sun to go down.
Terrible, terrible, terrible choice of colors. This maps make it seem like only developed countries use light saving times...