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

Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by CydeWeys on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:14PM (#16548197)

The problem with only having one central clock is that you no longer have relative time. Right now, I can say something like "I woke up at 11am", and you understand what that means, regardless of which timezone I'm in or you're in. It means I woke up late.

But now imagine I said "I woke up at 16:00 Z." That's meaningless without the context of what timezone I'm in. That could be early, it could be late, it could be waking up from a nap in the late afternoon.

If you force people onto centralized time, then they'll still start using arbitrary (and worse) measures of relative time, like they'll say stuff like "I woke up two hours after sunrise".

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by ianai on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:24PM (#16548263)

For shift workers, 11 am can be usual or downright way too early. Everything is relative. A central time would force people to clarify just like they really need to anyway.

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by zanny on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:56PM (#16548471)

Exactly this. What frustrates me about arguments for contemporary timekeeping is that there is some inherent simplicity to having a big arbitrary insane map of time in different places on Earth that is constantly changing and has no fundamental rules.

You need additional information than the timezone they live in to call your neighbor on the phone much less someone living in a country halfway around the world.

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by ianai on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:31AM (#16549984)

Yep, if anything the current model plays into peoples’ assumptions and leads to lots of misconceptions.

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