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For people who switched to winter time last night, should we end this? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There's only one way to get more sunlight during winter days: Move closer to the equator or, better yet, to the opposite hemisphere.

Maybe we should implement Morning Daylight Saving Time and Afternoon Daylight Saving Time, where we all change our clocks at 1 pm every day back to 12 noon, and then again at midnight we set them to 1 am.

Hmm. We could do even better: shift by 2 or 3 hours every day, and so we'd get that much more productivity out of our employees! Smithers, go tell everybody!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's change our clocks every day so it's always sunrise at 6:25.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No thanks, that would mean it's dark at 2pm here in December.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then let's change our clocks so 12:00 pm is always the exact middle of the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's probably the ideal situation given that you'd never have to change your clock again. Well, except when traveling east or west. And setting up meetings would be a nightmare, like "let's meet tomorrow at... eh, let me see... 4:13 for you Tom, 3:48 for you Sam, 7:24 for you Jane, oh, you have another meeting at 7:41... Ok, how about... Uhm..."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, pretty much what lead to time zones in the first place. And yes, you'd have to change your clock every day as each day is shorter (or longer) than the last one.