Just push the whole world time 30mins into the past/future and abolish it completely. No need for that stupid shit.
Meanwhile, I have to take Vitamin D supplements during winter because I’m up in the dark, working inside during the sunlight hours, and knock off just in time for the sun to disappear and take the dog for a run on a sport field under flood lights.
But let’s save an hour of sunlight in summer months so dinner can feel like second lunch and we have to block out the windows to start feeling sleepy in the evening to prepare for bed.
Fuck the circadium rythm! /s
because I’m up in the dark, working inside during the sunlight hours, and knock off just in time for the sun to disappear and take the dog for a run on a sport field under flood lights.
That’s the current pattern with changing the time back for the winter to try to get people more light. Daylight at the (eg) NYC latitude at the solstice is about 7 to 4:30, so most people get up with or before the sun, then leave work after it sets. Unless you’re proposing we shift back 2 hours, permanent summer clocks would only change that people would see the sun as they leave work rather than when they go to it.
Either way people with seasonal affective disorder still wouldn’t get enough sun.
There are a bunch of US states that already have trigger laws ready for when the federal government does away with DST. I personally cannot wait for that change.
But what do you do instead? Take a look at when some parts of the world would see their sunrise and sunset if all the world switched to winter time or summer time forever. What works at one place, results in a crazy daylight cycle in another.
me returning from work in the dark after spending all afternoon under cold white artificial lighting, and no dst:
Daylight saving is supposed to save a huge amount of energy, and I am all for that…, but could we maybe still not do it?.. Maybe just hibernate for the winter…, save loads more energy and, yes, solved it … and…sleep 😁
Annoying part is it doesn’t even save a huge amount of energy. Negligible amounts either way.
Missed work and sleep cycle disregulation effects are not trivial either. It’s dumb. Pathetic that our spineless politicians can’t even do something simple and non partisan like getting rid of this bullshit.
sleep cycle disregulation effects are not trivial either
I get that there’ve been studies about this so it’s hard for me to argue, but I still can’t quite understand how it has such a strong effect. If someone happens to be busy one night and goes to sleep an hour later than usual it doesn’t seem like the end of the world to me.
Yeah, tell me about it…
Edit: Hey, I just looked it up and apparently at least some of them did try back in 2022. From Wikipedia:
In 2022, the United States Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act which would permanently activate daylight saving time, but it was not approved by the U.S. House of Representatives.[3]
Daylight Savings is bad and its defenders should feel bad.
To be fair: If you live in the south, it doesn’t make much sense, but if you live a bit further north it’s the difference between getting up when the sun is a a reasonable place, or getting up in the middle of the night (winter) or the middle of the day (summer). I want it to be light out when I’m awake, not when it’s sleeping time.
Turns out it’s easier to adjust the clock than to say “work starts at 9 in the winter and at 8 in the summer”
I don’t want it to be dark so early. Living in the north, even with the extra morning hour in winter I still have to wake up in darkness. What’s the use of it?
Goddamnit , I thought the US Congress got rid of daylight savings time, but as always, it looks to have does in the house.
