lemm.ee

9 points

1 year ago

And sunrise would be 5am in June. And you ignore that sunset would be 6:20pm instead of 5:20.

The fact is, Boise gets just 9 hours of daylight. Pick your poison. I’d rather the light when I might be able to enjoy it.

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ExFed@lemm.ee

2 points

1 year ago

I’d rather the light when I might be able to enjoy it.

There’s a subtext to every DST vs. ST argument that never gets talked about: how much control people have over their own schedules. If, instead of shifting your clock, you could instead shift your schedule, wouldn’t that achieve the same result?

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2 points

1 year ago

I don’t want to change my schedule. I don’t want to have to go to work an hour earlier just so I can get daylight in the evening.

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ExFed@lemm.ee

2 points

1 year ago

So you’d rather change everybody else’s schedule to meet your desires? Because that’s what DST is: the government telling its people to change their schedules by an hour.

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2 points

1 year ago

Who says I’m changing everyone else’s schedule? I the one that DOESN’T want the clocks to change.

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ExFed@lemm.ee

0 points

1 year ago

I’m not arguing for changing clocks twice a year. I’m arguing that permanent DST is no better than permanent Standard Time when it comes to scheduling. The difference is that people are falsely convinced permanent DST will give them “more daylight” when it will not. Schedules have always shifted between seasons. We can’t do anything about the motion of planets, but we can decide to go to work an hour earlier to maximize how much continuous time we have after work to do yardwork or whatever.

Today, we have this arbitrary “9 to 5” work schedule. Give it 20 years of permanent DST, and we’ll start wishing we “had more daylight” because we have a “10 to 6” work schedule. They’re just numbers. Why not choose the simpler standard?

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1 point

1 year ago

I already go to work in the dark most of the year. It is the time change that robs me of that that it takes what was a dark hour to a slightly less dark hour, all the while costing me that hour earlier. Perhaps you think I work 9-5. No, I work 7-4. I have no desire to go to work an hour earlier, because it’s not arbitrary. The rest of the world operates on a schedule by necessity. Further changing my start time puts me further out of sync with everyone else.

I never said DST gives more daylight. I said it puts the daylight where I want it.

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maryjayjay@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

In June on dst sunset is after 9:30pm. I don’t need it to be light at 10:00, it’s frankly annoying. I actually enjoy it being light when I drive to work in the morning.

The fact is, the US tried permanent dst in the 70s and everyone hated it. It’s why we took it back

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1 point

1 year ago

I would rather it light at 10pm than 3:30am.

I enjoy having light in the morning. But I enjoy light in the evening MORE.

And I have discussed the 70s event elsewhere in this post. It was horribly implemented (changing clocks in both October and then in January) and even then some people liked it. It certainly wasn’t “everyone.”

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