Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by watt on Saturday October 31, 2020 @09:58AM
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They can decide to start waking up an hour earlier or later without forcing everyone else to change their clocks.
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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by nostrademons on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:03AM
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Also don't need to have clocks at all, which was an industrial-age invention. The concept of standardized time and hour-long timezones dates from the mid-1800s, and was a construct of the railways (which needed to publish schedules that'd be valid across long distances). Before then each village or region had its own time.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/invention-...
Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by nogabebop23 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:26AM
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Do you think agriculture hasn't moved into a post-industrial age? Modern farms are tightly integrated into a global supply chain from imputs to product and definitely need to work on the same standardized schedule as the rest of the world.