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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by nitrogen on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:15PM (#26771844)
Timezones don't account for seasonal changes in sunrise times, and DST is a poor hack that tries and fails. Using local solar time would be an improvement in that regard. On short days you just do less.
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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by emodendroket on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:20PM (#26771885)
Timezones are a reasonable compromise between the desire for people to be up during the day, on one hand, and the need for a modern economy to be able to coordinate people over long distances, on the other. Turning up the dial all the way to the left here is going to cause a lot of problems.
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