0 minutes of daylight is gained from daylight savings time.
60 minutes is how much is shifted to later in the day.
I completely agree with this point. But using the conventions of “business hours” to drag people out of bed earlier allows them to get off work earlier and utilize the daylight they already have more fully. But it is without a doubt a psychological shell game.
There is no amount of daylight I can utilize as I’m not a farmer. Where the sun is has almost no bearing on my life but forcing me to suddenly wake up an hour earlier certainly does
The main problem is that the old 9 to 5 business hours puts three hours before noon and five after, which is why DST moves time later in the day.
Just change ‘business hours to’ 8 to 4 and call it a day. or 7:30 to 4:30 if it needs to be 8 hours plus lunch.
Logic and sense? Get out of here! Obviously what we need to do is make daylight saving time permanent year round!
/s, if that wasn’t obvious
I don’t know what exactly this is measuring, but the amount of daylight in a day does change throughout the year. If this is measuring the amount of daylight gained from dead winter to the shift, then it actually is increasing the amount of daylight.
It’s definitely in addition to dst, look at the southern states… the blue/cyan is 50 minutes (plus 60)
Useful daylight is gained. Daylight before I wake up is useless to me. Daylight in the evening after work is useful.
Can’t express how happy I am to finally be coming out of the deep dark. Seattle is a lot better in the summer when the days are like 16 hours long. I love it.
We live in an age now where everyone could potentially sync up with “sunrise” as a floating value.
Your alarm clock will wake you up at sunrise +0.5h (if the sun doesn’t).
Work starts at sunrise +2h.
Daylight savings time no longer exists.
Everything is good.
Take out the “work starts at sunrise +2h” for everything to be good. Work is overrated.
That probably would work well for those closer to the equator.
But for those in the 100 minutes zone of this map that would mean going to work at 6:30am in the summer (assuming we are using civil twilight as “sunrise”), and 9:30AM in the winter which is much more of a swing than daylight savings puts on us, but at least it is a gradual one.
For those above the Arctic Circle, they just work 24/7 for a couple of weeks in the summer but get a similar time off in the winter ;)
There’s a slash through the middle of the country that will lose about 4 minutes of daylight in april
Math enthusists cringe at the discrete bands tho
