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A comment on American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time. Parent comment

Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by tdeck on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:34AM (#24314636)
"Natural local time " hasn't been the status quo for over 100 years. Just look at this map:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/how-wrong-is-you...

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by waterhouse on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:49AM (#24314722)
I'll grant that hour-granularity time zones are pragmatically useful. But why make the difference from "noon = solar noon" any worse than it needs to be?
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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by aidenn0 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:45AM (#24314701)
Blog slate linked to isn't live any more; here's a direct link to the larger map via archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150304212105/http://blog.poorm...

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