STOP SAVING DAYLIGHT
* CLOCKS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CHANGED TWICE A YEAR
* YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT
* Sunset keeps getting earlier by a few minutes per day, which is sad but we can adjust to it, but then BAM we are all supposed to change the clocks so that it's suddenly A FULL HOUR EARLIER and it's PITCH DARK AFTER WORK what the hell.
"Hello I would like my saved daylight back please"
They have played us for absolute fools.
@jef I endorses this toot ... As a horologist ... hugz
Hugz & xXx
A handy tool to help make your case when whining about a biannual time change, following earlier explorations of the geography of DST effects. Tip: rotate to landscape mode if you're looking at this on a mobile device. Measuring if—and how much—DST sucks for you While my earlier map was interesting to explore, it leaves too much room for interpretation. You don't have time for that. Your life is too awful because of a lost hour, or a gained one. You need fast FACTS. So for this map I made up a score to prov
@WizardOfDocs @mgarraha as for light therapy in the morning vs light therapy at night this is what I found, pic attached,
source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6746555/
Since the first description of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) by Rosenthal et al. in the 1980s, treatment with daily administration of light, or Bright Light Therapy (BLT), has been proven effective and is now recognized as a first-line therapeutic ...
@mgarraha Oh thank goodness! It's just been a rumor then. Whew
thank you!
@jef
> I don't care what number is on the clock as long as I don't have to mess with it twice a year
I agree. Daylight Savings Time does a twice-yearly mindjob on me and any election candidate who campaigned on abolishing it would get my vote.
@jef it was introduced so that factory owners could save on candles. That's it. That's the whole story behind it.
Capitalism is a scam everywhere you look closer.
Well not so much, it doesn't look like Franklin was serious when he wrote about it in Paris. The impetus in the US was to align transport timetables and force States to be consistent, the Department of Transportation manages the Uniform Time Act.
It was WWI which convinced European countries independently to have DST to save energy in the Winter.
Along with the rest of Britain I suffered British Standard Time 68-71 which was 'permanently' GMT+1.
In Computing it's just UTC.
@simon_lucy @jef but WHO saves energy at WHAT TIME?
-> The energy is saved in the daytime during working hours. Thus it's in the interest of the people controlling those hours.
In two World Wars it saved coal.
Now it still makes sense at a time of high energy costs and the impact on emissions (probably relatively small).
Before we had a highly integrated world with transport times that ignore the local time related to the sun's progress everything was local. The time was governed by the most important church or public building in a relatively small area.
That can't be true now. What is worse is the slippage between continents when they change separately
AC isn't common everywhere.
It really isn't and a 45°C average temperature in Summer isn't going to happen this century, London might make a 30°C average. This year, though it was the hottest Summer, didn't get over about 23°C average with peaks of a few days over 30.
London is about 5° higher than the rest of the country, on a regular day it's about 2° but it was higher this summer.
We'll just complain about the humidity as we always have.
@jef this but unironically though
Daylight savings time is unnatural, the sun is supposed to be at its highest point at noon, and that's impossible under dst
@jef An utter PITA - speaking as a former airline software person.
In Scotland it is especially annoying in that it is asymmetric. We have to wait another month in the Spring before we get our evening daylight. Anyway I am no longer working so I can just adjust the time I get up to compensate,
@jef there are health benefits of sticking to solar time! So perhaps we should move back to local time. for the bigger regions the time zones is a reasonable compromise, but stick to the natural time. The idea that you can't change office hours, is rubbish as most businesses expect staff not to work to contact! So the whole idea of a fixed office day is baloney.
Perhaps just another example of how the Berks in power are out of touch with reality of all.
@jef Demand base-10 while you're at it :)
https://medium.com/@duspom/proposal-for-a-base-10-calendar-b385071a219d
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