I’m not certain what the red dotted line is supposed to represent.
I would not assume astronomical noon, when the sun is highest and furthest from the horizon.
I might be able to think middle of day perhaps, but astronomical noon should be the middle of the day regardless.
@drdrang If you have 16 hours of daylight, 8 of those hours should be before noon and 8 of them should be after noon.
Otherwise what’s even the point of having noon and midnight?
Might as well live on UTC if we don’t care about local solar maximums anymore.
Having said that, by this point it’s the switching twice a year that does the real harm. Let’s just go permanent DST and stop the twice a year arguments and health issues.
And while we’re at it, put continental US on two timezones instead of four. If China and India can both make one timezone work, we can simplify there and just have two.
@drdrang You could almost see it with things being coordinated online across distance with UTC and having automatic translation to local time. DST has been training people to realize how time is a social construct anyways.
In the end most people only really care about what time local businesses are open and then what time needs to be coordinated for travel or online meetings.
No reason for those things to be tied to the sky anymore.
It NEVER bothered me growing up whether it was dark in the morning, or dark in the afternoon, when going to school.
What DID bother me was the sleep disruption twice a year, expecially spring forward, as I was a lifetime night owl.
In Chicago, the summers are warm, humid, and wet; the winters are freezing, snowy, and windy; and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 22°F to 83°F and is rarely below 5°F or above 91°F.
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