Matthew DockreyThe 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.
tdietterich@attoparsec You are free to set your clocks to any value you like. But it will make things difficult when you want to coordinate on a meeting time.
AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳🌈@tdietterich @attoparsec You know that any modern collaboration/calendar app automatically accounts for the local time of the users, right?
When Big Software Company decided not to do return-to-office, WFH also officially became flex time. We're allowed to work whatever hours work for us, accommodating for child care, elder care, personal appointments, and just plain preferring to sleep late. We're also explicitly empowered to reject any meeting request outside of our chosen work schedule.
@tdietterich @attoparsec The rules are simple: (1) publish your available hours in your calendar and (2) work enough hours to get your work done on schedule. That's it. Many of us, myself included, didn't think this would last in a highly regimented global company, but it has. Because productivity improved so shockingly fast when you let people work on their own terms. It's been wild but awesome.
Clocks are arbitrary, stop the stupid fussing with time. My opinion.
@andthisismrspeacock @attoparsec I will want to fuss with my time. And added flexibility might allow me to live on local solar time rather than locking myself to some time zone. I'd need to publish my time schedule (probably as an executable procedure rather than a declarative table). And I'd need to be able to coordinate with all of the businesses and people who remain locked into fixed time zones. Fun to imagine
@tdietterich @attoparsec I didn't think it would work either, until it did. Granted I have the luxury of working on a global team, so if you absolutely must talk to someone at 0400 my time I can refer you to someone in the UK who can answer your question... if I didn't have that it would be a bit harder. 😆