Rafael Pérez ☀️Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the twenty-first century, yay or nay?
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Matthew Martin@rperezrosario It kills people.
7leaguebootdisk𓅽@mistersql @rperezrosario literally true. It would be better for people's health to stay on standard time year round.
porkloin@7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario wouldn’t the same be true if we just stayed in DST permanently? I hear this a lot as an argument “for standard time” but it seems more like an argument against having a bi-annual time change, not an argument in favor of or against DST or ST
João Santos@porkloin @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario while the bi-annual change causes the most harm, permanent DST would still not be as ideal as permanent ST (source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508293122)
Henrik Pauli@jmcs @porkloin @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario I guess it really depends on the location — Iceland for example uses UTC all year round because in the summer it doesn't matter and in the winter they try to maximise sun exposure.
In a lot of places summer time makes sense in the way culture is now (nobody needs the sun to be up at 3:40 but everyone would be angry if it's down already at 20:00 (Budapest)) wouldn't suffer from summer time in winter either (more light after work/school)
Brendan Halpin@phl @jmcs @porkloin @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario My rule of thumb is that the DST practice makes sense between approx 40N and 60N. Further south (incl much of the US) daylight-length difference is too small to justify it, further north, the difference is so big 1 hr doesn't do much.
Rejkjavík is about 64°N.