US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by riffic on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:48PM (#30691461)

China has one time zone for the whole country if I'm not mistaken. the country spans 5 geographic time zones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China

Permanent standard / solar time proponent here: I'm reminded of that quote about people believing you could get a longer blanket if you were to cut a foot off top and sew it onto the bottom.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by vaughnegut on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:52PM (#30691522)

While true, it doesn't really disprove what the poster above is saying, since they lived in Beijing, the place that China's timezone is roughly centered on.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:11PM (#30691764)

That's definitely true for Urumuqi where stores open later (11AM instead of 9:30 or 10AM in the rest of the country). But Beijing is pretty far east where the time zone is mainly meant for.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by billiam on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:31PM (#30692024)

Try Kashgar. It's dark until 10 or later every day in the winter.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:49PM (#30694325)

Kashgar would be the worst possible situation in China, I've only ever been as far west as Urumuqi.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by riffic on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:37PM (#30692110)

the variability of solar time depends a great deal on latitude, if I'm not mistaken.

perhaps lawmakers can try voting to change the tilt of the earth, lol.

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