Permanent Daylight Saving Time

[GoldMember]

^^ Hawaii is another option.... Just sayin'

[Hood26]

I choose Iceland or Argentina.

[Ted Striker]

Labrador, which is part of Newfoundland (ducks for cover) doesn't use Newfy Time.

With a sufficiently fast airplane you could depart Gander and arrive in Charlottetown before you took off.

[dunfree]

I've always wondered if places in the far west of China are expected to actually run on Beijing time, i.e. business opening times, etc. It's China so I suspect they are.

urümqi seemed to run on local time but plane tickets were Beijing time, but that was pregenocide


and people more active at 4am than 9pm is bullshit

[joetron]

The idea that more people would rather have sunrise at 4am than sunset at 9pm is dumb.

I'm fine with status quo. It's really not that hard to remember and has almost zero impact after the first day.

This.
The time change is fine. It’s one of the few (non-political) collective experiences we have left as a society. Some nice water cooler/Who shot JR shit.
It feels nice to have some more light in the morning now, and it’s fucking glorious to get another hour of evening light in the spring when we all want to be outside doing shit.


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The common theme is people are irritated by change & they will bitch about anything

[riser4]

The common theme is people are irritated by change & they will bitch about anything

This irritates me.

[XXX-er]

The common theme is people are irritated by change & they will bitch about anything

exactly ^^ we are not even that far narth but depending on the time of year the length of daylight changes no matter what you whine about on the internet and always has

[old goat]

Nothing is going to change the fact that the days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter and the difference is greater the farther you are from the equator. If people can't deal with that, Ecuador is a very nice country--geography wise. (And it uses the US dollar so you can still use the money stashed under your mattress.)

[MontuckyFried]

With current tech we can make time whatever we want it to be. For me, high noon is 12:00. With WFH and the like, what snowflake needs an ‘extra hour’ of sunlight at the end of the day.
GMT = standard earth time, and whatever your location says it is. It’s all relative anyway.

EXACTLY!!! Perhaps my perspective is skewed from my aircrew days, but I used to have my watch always set to GMT and then wherever I landed, just +/- however many hours from that. DST always through me for a loop though. Always preferred how most of the world doesn't seem to play that game. I still have my old Citizen Skyhawk watch which made things much, much easier for me to keep track of things as I could work in numerous time zones throughout any given duty day. Sometimes start out on the East coast, eventually end up in Japan, with about 4 or 5 stops along the way... in a single 24 hour work day.

And then after oilfield and factory work, and zero concept of the "8-hour work day" (must be nice!), time simply has no meaning for me anymore. Just tell me when to show up and I'll be there.

I'm of the opinion to ditch DST entirely. Since we're not working by candlelight like our forefathers were in the 1800s, we don't really require it any longer.

[CarlMega]

All you early risers make me throw up in my mouth just a little.





You should sleep late, man
It's just much easy on your constitution

[The AD]

I'm of the opinion to ditch DST entirely. Since we're not working by candlelight like our forefathers were in the 1800s, we don't really require it any longer.

DST didn't exist anywhere until well into the electric era. The first city to use DST was Port Arthur, Ontario in 1908. The first country was Germany during WWI.

[ötzi]

Blame Canada.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

DST didn't exist anywhere until well into the electric era. The first city to use DST was Port Arthur, Ontario in 1908. The first country was Germany during WWI.

Widespread residential electricity outside of cities didn’t happen until the Rural Electrification Act was passed in 1936. Nearly half the US lived outside cities in the 1930s. Example, my grandparents didn’t get electricity until the mid forties in north Snohomish County around the Bryant area.


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[BCMtnHound]

Nothing is going to change the fact that the days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter and the difference is greater the farther you are from the equator. If people can't deal with that, Ecuador is a very nice country--geography wise. (And it uses the US dollar so you can still use the money stashed under your mattress.)

I get the impression a big part of the daylight hours morning vs eve issue also resides in where you are located longitudinally in your time zone. Not an issue with pacific as many are at the east end of the zone, but I gather the easterners are nearer the west end of theirs.

Too many human devised constructs compounding the effect as we transition away from the natural order of things. Artificial time ‘zones’, a ‘9-5 work day’, stock and money market opening and closings, etc ad nauseam. Biology don’t care, no matter how many fixes we pile on one after the other to make our societal system function. I prefer the KISS principle myself.

[XXX-er]

Widespread residential electricity outside of cities didn’t happen until the Rural Electrification Act was passed in 1936. Nearly half the US lived outside cities in the 1930s. Example, my grandparents didn’t get electricity until the mid forties in north Snohomish County around the Bryant area.


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up here i hear people talk about pre-flushtoilet

[bennymac]

time zones also invented by a Canadian

Tucker Carlson would use this info as further proof Canada needs to be liberated

[Ted Striker]

Too many human devised constructs compounding the effect as we transition away from the natural order of things. Artificial time ‘zones’, a ‘9-5 work day’

[Dantheman]

That movie has aged like a fine wine.

I'm fine with the current system, but if were were to make one permanent it would have to be Standard Time. Permanent DST is insane.

[mcski]

I would think it aged more like a bottle of rancid soda, but I’m crazy

[old goat]

Why can't we get up when it starts to get light, go to work after a shower and breakfast, go home when it starts to turn dark. Work more in the summer, less in the winter. You know, like mankind did for hundreds of thousands of years.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

up here i hear people talk about pre-flushtoilet

My grandparents(both sides)had an outhouse until the early ‘60s. That’s not that long ago.


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[The AD]

That movie has aged like a fine wine.

I saw that movie for the first time in high school. I went with some friends and I hadn't heard anything about it previously. I think that made it even funnier. It was just such a departure from the teenage-focused crap I typically saw, like the John Hughes movies. Those have not aged like fine wine.

[BCMtnHound]

My grandparents(both sides)had an outhouse until the early ‘60s. That’s not that long ago.


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Ha, that’s my parents you’re talking about young-un!
Actually, my father would joke that he had more in-home amenities in post WW2 Germany than Mom did during the same decades homesteading in the central Fraser valley BC.

And the GMBC is classic. Need to put that movie on the list to watch with the daughter. Give her some perspective going into her pre-teen years.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Ha, that’s my parents you’re talking about young-un!
Actually, my father would joke that he had more in-home amenities in post WW2 Germany than Mom did during the same decades homesteading in the central Fraser valley BC.

And the GMBC is classic. Need to put that movie on the list to watch with the daughter. Give her some perspective going into her pre-teen years.

Yeah, my dad graduated high school(55)before they got an indoor toilet, my mom got a toilet the year she graduated(63).


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