Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple

Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by taeric on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:34PM (#16547820)

That doesn't actually help... My problem is that I walk the kids to school every day. A few weeks ago, it was solidly dark when we did this walk. Now it is broad daylight. Will remain that way for the rest of the year. Even with the change in time coming up.

I confess in the grand scheme, this is not a major concern of mine. It isn't as easy as just moving to UTC, though. When families move, you typically try and keep the same "clock" bedtimes, as an easy example. (Even though, they actually care about sun height for bedtime/waketime.)

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by hosh on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:48PM (#16547955)

Pre-modern views on this is that you are supposed to align with the natural order of the world. If we are waking up at the same clock time and it is darker, we are not living in a way that is aligned. It is darker because it is closer to winter, a time when emotions, metabolisms, and such all shift towards less activity and more reflection. Kids went to bed because the whole family, the whole community ran on sunup and sundown.

I'm not suggesting we go backwards towards a pre-modern time. We do have some great flaws in what we are doing now (modernity). Our civilization runs on clock time and is very productive, yet we live in very dysfunctional and unhealthy ways.

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by taeric on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:10PM (#16548174)

Apologies if I am misunderstanding, but I think this is agreeing with me. Right?

Specifically, I'm saying I would like it if we had a stable measure to the sun time of where we are. We don't. But it is not DST that really kills it. Rather, the idea that the sun down/up times are static for a place is weak. At best.

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