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Death to daylight savings time (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It gets dark too soon

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Daylight savings time sucks because its noon is offset from solar noon, but I think most people think we're going to daylight savings time when we're actually exiting daylight savings time into standard time. Standard time is better because its noon is (mostly) synced with solar noon. And since we spend the majority of the year in daylight savings time, the noon that's on our clocks doesn't actually correspond to anything since the sun is at its highest at like 1pm. Real simulacrum hours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People get confused because the names are absurd and backwards. How is it “Daylight Saving” when you move the daylight towards the evening? Thats Daylight Spending if anything. We’re putting it where we can use more of it! Daylight Saving would be shifting away from the evening.

But also I don’t particularly care if clock noon matches solar noon. I don’t want to leave work in the dark, and it would be significantly easier to stay on DST year round than to force every business and employer to shift their hours forward so I don’t leave work in the dark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

How is it “Daylight Saving” when you move the daylight towards the evening? Thats Daylight Spending if anything.

Jerry Seinfeld, is that you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah fuck. Can I cop out and say I mean the concept of DST then? Obviously we'd stay on summer time.