Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
by zeveb on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:44AM
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I think you'll find that it's like euphemism creep: in a few more decades, you'll be arguing to slide the time over another hour, and in another few decades, you'll do the same thing all over again.
Better to just stick with real time and be done with it. We're adults, are we not? Have we not the tools at our disposal to take responsibility for our lives?
Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
by WalterGR on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:18AM
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in a few more decades, you'll be arguing to slide the time over another hour, and in another few decades, you'll do the same thing all over again. ... We're adults, are we not?
And you'll be doing the same thing, but in the opposite (and wrong ;) direction. Non-DST isn't some heavenly ordained moral high ground.
Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
by zeveb on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:26AM
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> And you'll be doing the same thing, but in the opposite (and wrong ;) direction.
No, I'll continue arguing that clock noon should be solar noon. Midnight should be the middle of the night. Nothing more nor less.
As a rule, people don't go to sleep in 20:00 to wake up at 04:00 (anymore - in the agricultural era that was quite common), and midnight is not even close to the middle of our nighttime; in the same manner, noon is not in the middle of our days, we're spending much more of our time after noon. Changing all of that is hard and difficult compared to changing a time zone - so we'd want a timezone where the astronomical midnight is at 1:00 or 2:00 local time, it would better align the daylight with our activities.