US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:23PM (#30693273)

You’re never gonna convince the world to remove time zones. Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined because it would be 2 AM where I am now. Since the invention of the sundial, time zones have existed in some form or another. Programmers just have deal with it.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by eru on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:52PM (#30693949)

The sun doesn't rise between 5-7 AM-ish in many parts of the world.

First, if you timezone is 'right', on average the sun should rise about 6 am. In winter, it rises later, in summer it rises earlier.

Where I grew up in Germany the sun rose as late as 8:20 am in winter. And funny enough, the latest rise in Madrid in Spain is at 8:40 am in winter. That's because Madrid is on the 'wrong' timezone: it's in the same timezone as Germany, but much further west.

(You are right however, that time zones do roughly keep noon around 12-ish. It's just that the band of variation around the world is quite a lot wider than you might imagine.)

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by mcronce on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:12PM (#30694082)

> Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined

And this idea is critically important because?

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:34PM (#30694228)

It alone isn’t. But the notion of the sun rising in the mid-AM, midday being at noon, and the sun then setting in the mid-PM is literally as old as the sundial. There’s no way you’re convincing society that “no timezones” is a good thing.

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