Matthew DockreyMar 10, 2024
The amazing thing about daylight savings is that we would rather *mess with the definition of time itself* than give people the freedom and flexibility to start their day an hour earlier or later as they see fit. Problems can only be solved through coercive conformity.
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@attoparsec

This sounds like an argument for abolishing official time altogether. Which is fine, provided you never have to actually meet anybody, catch a bus, go to the doctor, pick up your kids from school, ...

Mar 10, 2024 at 12:18pmWeb
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@attoparsec

I agree with you that daylight savings time is a stupid idea.

I guess your post irks me a little because it suggests there's some absolute definition of time that's being changed. There isn't. Time zones are as artificial as daylight savings time. For that matter, so are clocks. They're just human convention. Only the solar day is "real", and that shifts by a couple of minutes every day.

But by all means, let's get rid of daylight savings time.