I’ll edit my responses here…

A small anecdote here: I read a few days ago that apparently, Alzheimer’s patients get their daily routine and circadian rhythm knocked around by this policy

Edit 2: It’s funny how people are talking about time, as if this were my 2nd post of discussion on why time measurement is bullshit, on my account…

Some memorable replies here:

another point is that it’s probably not great for animals with a strong internal clock

Do not make me get up an hour earlier I will fucking cut you.

On the other hand it is nice the park is open later but have you considered just adequately lighting the park bike paths?

it’s bad and we should commemorate the inventor with a public toilet

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On the one hand, it’s disruptive and annoying. On the other hand, it has no practical benefits whatsoever. Hard to say whether it’s good or bad, really.

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Why the hell would you be confused on whether it’s good or bad…? You’ve made your decision right there…

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they’re joking with the second sentence by pretending to not understand the points they just laid out to highlight the obviousness

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It’s not disruptive enough. We should switch to metric while daylight savings is happening and switch back to imperial when it ends. Think of how many jobs would be created by constantly needing to change all the road signs.

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Switch to metric time for the duration as well to really shake things up.

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Oh gosh…

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30 points

Abolish all timezones and move to earth standard time on top of a 13 month calendar.

Thats what you have to look forward to when I’m dictator of the solar system.

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You’ll have to fight my duodecimal empire when we abolish the Base-10 system and implement Base-12 like it always should have been.

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Over my dead base-60 body.

Signed, the Sexagesimal Gang

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19 points

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Hear me out folks - sexagesimal bear

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12 points

Base-60 is just Base-12 with extra steps.

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If we’re going to go to all the effort of switching to a different number base it should obviously be base 16

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Can you count to 16 on one hand?

Cuz I can count to 12 on one hand.

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Base-8

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I can express 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 super easily. All you pretenders can’t say the same.

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I mean I won’t stop you from doing it, but time zones help clear up confusion for me on current regional time… how should I deal with that?

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Also thanks for making this post the time as I just looked at the time in the car before I came in and an hour later looked at the time and it was the same.

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You’re welcome… Edit: Wait a minute, what was the time there?

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everyone will move to where their sleep cycle matches the time and daylight. people with sleep disorders will receive semi-autonomous zeppelins to fly east or west as necessary to accommodate us.

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You won’t be able to stop me because I’d be the dick tater

Anyway to answer your question everyone would have to tag their time as +3 or -6 or whatever but the actual time would be what UTC is now so we can sync all the computers properly.

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Basically the only merit to it that I can think of is that it prevents kids from having to walk to school in the dark, but then again that could be remedied by not having school hours be absurdly early in the morning

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When I was a sleepy 14 year old, having all of those 9am school starts was awful. Making kids go to school at 7am is fucking child abuse.

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Hey, aren’t you the person who was saying you and everyone you know is up by 7:30 on weekends so it’s fine to be making lots of noise then?

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I remember having to get up at 6 to catch the bus, then getting to school and having to wait an hour for class to start anyway.

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we started at 9

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Waking up to be at school before 7 as a kid was literal torture, it’s way too fucking early.

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Get rid of it, changing the clock doesn’t change where the sun is in the sky

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