I have to rethink my priorities I guess.
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- buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I just strongly dislike my biorhythms being thrown out of whack for several weeks twice a year.
- 10 days
The real problem with daylight savings time is that we haven’t killed and devoured the oligarchy/hegemony/kakistocracy.
10 daysThere is another solution: live far enough up north and the day disappears totally eventually.
I live up north and I can tell you DST makes fuck-all difference after a week here.
- Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish9 days
There are only 2 days, summer and winter. All DST do is mess with my sleep pattern twice a year.
- 10 days
Can we just pick one time and stick to it instead of swapping twice a year?
A lot of places are doing that, but they’re making the stupid decision to keep DST all year, which means that solar noon is at 1pm.
Just keep it the same all year. Keep solar noon at 12pm. If you think it’s dangerous for kids to be catching the bus in the dark in winter, start school 1 hour later. If that means parents might need to stay home longer to see their kids off to school, start work later.
This isn’t rocket surgery. Adjust the work and school schedule, not the clock.
- 28RipeBananas@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Who cares when solar noon is? Id like to get out of work with any amount of sunlight.
- Crankenstein@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
This isn’t rocket surgery. Adjust the work and school schedule, not the clock.
Western culture is so alienated from Country that it’s easier to change time itself than to change work schedules
- 9 days
It doesnt make any sense to keep DST permanent there’s no pluses.
a) It will be still dark at 7am for large chunks of the year this sucks. b)You get one final shitty spring forwards, but lose out of the pleasure of one last fall back.
a) It will be still dark at 7am for large chunks of the year this sucks.
Why? Is there something special about “7am”?
- 9 days
Sorry if i wasn’t very clear when I was kind of rapidly typing. To elaborate even by late October it’s still dark by like 7 And that’s with daylight savings time still in effect. If daylight savings time were still in effect in the winter, then by late December The sun wouldn’t be up until nine o’clock. That sucks
Seven in particular is a touchstone because that’s when a lot of people are up going to or getting ready for work and it’s when kids are often going to school and waiting for the bus.
Sure, there are places in more northern latitudes that have to deal with these compromises, but it’s a silly compromise to make when it’s artificially made.
Better to let end daylight savings one final time and leave it ended
The sun wouldn’t be up until nine o’clock. That sucks
Why? What does nine o’clock matter? Does it bother you that right now it’s 3pm in Beijing but it’s the middle of the night in North America?
The numbers on a clock are just numbers on a clock. It doesn’t suck any less if it’s dark at 4am or 7am or 10am.
Seven in particular is a touchstone because that’s when a lot of people are up going to or getting ready for work
There’s no reason that can’t change. If you don’t like being up at 7am when it’s dark, then change the time you start work.
and it’s when kids are often going to school and waiting for the bus.
There’s no reason kids have to go to school at 7am. Kids could go to school at 9am. There’s nothing sacred about the current schedule.
but it’s a silly compromise to make when it’s artificially made.
Yes, I completely agree. This arbitrary school start time of 8am or 8:30 or 9am or whatever it is where you live is artificially made, and can be changed. There’s no reason to keep that arbitrary time and instead change the clocks so that time occurs when it’s light outside.
Many places have. Just about the only thing I support my current government doing.
Why do we need to change the clock twice a year when we know how many downsides there are?
- sleep disruptions, can take weeks to adjust
- 24% spike in heart attacks on the Monday after setting the clock forward
- 8% increased risk of stroke
- increased depressive episodes, worse mood, decreased cognitive performance
- 6% increase in traffic accidents
- more frequent workplace injuries
- increased pedestrian risk
- estimated between millions to billions of dollars in productivity loss annually in the US alone
- international coordination confusion
It fucking sucks
Iirc the heart attacks even out over the span of a few weeks, so Idk about the others.
Iirc the heart attacks even out over the span of a few weeks, so Idk about the others.
Did you get it, or…
- obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Yesterday I saw a video with a sleep expert.
She said that human beings have a problem getting up until it’s light and that Daylight Saving Time can mess that up.
I propose that AT THE VERY LEAST, during the winter, work days be one hour shorter, but with no decrease in pay, and that they start an hour later.
This will allow people to have a proper amount of sleep, and to see the sun in the morning, to be better rested, and to see the sun at the end of the day.
I propose that AT THE VERY LEAST, during the winter, work days be one hour shorter
This isn’t something you “propose”, this is something you demand when negotiating your job offer. If you’re not an in-demand worker and can’t do that, then join a union and have the union demand it.
Really, this whole daylight time / standard time debate is stupid. Solar noon should be at 12pm. Once you’ve fixed that, adjust other things. If in the summer people want more evening sun, then start work earlier. If in the winter they want more morning sun to make commutes safer, then start work later.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to have the freedom to change work hours and clocks, and think that the reasonable thing to do is to change the clocks so noon isn’t at noon, rather than just change work hours.
- SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
No you shouldn’t. Not at all actually. Your hormones typically build up to initiate the sleep cycle around 9:30-10:00pm. It’s skience brah.
Lol if you’re going to bed that early and sleeping until sun up then you have early symptoms of dementia.
- HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish10 days
Wow how did that evolve?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep
- nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish10 days
Could be because humanity spread out from more equatorial areas? So we evolved to sleep at night because they used to be regular from season to season.
Sunset today was at 4:27PM in Augusta, Maine. That is a big damn problem that is only going to get worse for the next ~40 days. That same problem occurs on the eastern edge of every time zone.
Frankly, I’m not interested in the advice of “sleep experts”. I’m more interested in the advice of fitness experts, recreation experts, and everyone else who understands that mornings are the time we waste giving to bosses and clients; evenings are the time we spend on ourselves and our loved ones.
- SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
For me, fitness experts and sleep experts are on the same level. They all have some different story to tell.
I don’t call my labmates molecule experts. That would be insulting but funny. Never a scientist, always an expert buahahaha.
- 9 days
I’m a “children in a box” expert, which doesn’t sound too good until I mention I’m a school bus driver.
- corvi@piefed.socialEnglish10 days
I had to start work at 2 this morning. Alarm set for 1:30. Woke up, 30 minutes later it was 1 am again.
For years I’ve said I never even notice DST because my phone and computer just update on their own. I’ve officially been hoisted by my own petard.
I gotta change 3 house clocks, a car and several wristwatches. Every damned time I think I got the DST settings fixed on my Casio collection, nope! We shall see in the morning.
- ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I would like more daylight in the evening and also a shorter work day, thanks.
- Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Right?? I just realized it’s gonna be dark before 6PM now.
I used to live in a WV valley, and it would be nighttime at 3:30PM.
- 10 days
Ya know… a shorter workday in the winter is one heck of an idea. I like it.
- NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish10 days
Do all the people who have daylight savings time also use energy savings bulbs and money savings tips?
Of course, LED bulbs are so ubiquitous that it’s hard to even find filament bulbs that aren’t special use, and instead of wasting money on big trips to Epstein’s island they now have have the children trafficked straight to their hotel rooms
The ones in power deciding for everyone else don’t use them, I would think.
I hate daylight savings time so much.
Do other countries do this stupid shit? We can’t even do time right
- DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
The boss owes you one kiss on the forehead for every four days you show up.
- Cheebus@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
more kissing = more babies and more say gex
(forgot to include those that might not want kids but still want some smooches too, plenty of love to go around)
everyone wins!
