Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time

Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by beefsack on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:15AM (#11277246)

It might seem crazy and impractical, but I feel that daylight savings is treating a symptom and removing time zones altogether would be treating the cause.

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Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by greggman on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:58AM (#11277355)

Or have massive unintended consequences

http://qntm.org/abolish

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Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by ghaff on Sunday March 13, 2016 @09:34AM (#11277626)

So now, rather than remembering what timezone someone/some location is, you have to remember instead what is "normal daytime" for that locale. Everyone worldwide isn't going to operate on the same schedule regardless on the position of the sun.

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Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by Karunamon on Sunday March 13, 2016 @11:43AM (#11278043)

We have these devices called computers which are quite excellent at this kind of task.

Snark aside, it wouldn't be that hard to have the clocks all set to UTC, and then a second "day equivalent" clock that's used only for translation, but not for actual timekeeping.

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Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by Stunner on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:22AM (#11277266)

Lol... then everyone would be on one global time? <s>Yeah that sounds super awesome!!!!!!!</s>

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Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by DanBC on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:24AM (#11277272)

One global time would suck for AFK life, but something like Swatch beats would be handy for online stuff.

I'm a bit surprised Mojang haven't implemented something similar.

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Re:Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time by sena on Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:29AM (#11277451)

Have you heard about UTC?

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