US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dylan604 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:52PM (#30693506)

Future historians will write tomes about the efforts early man went through of adjusting the time (as if they had the power) twice a year.

Time is an abstract thing we have let rule us. I love the stories of indigenious tribes where they worked on a task until it was completed, not because some arbitrary shadow on a stick. When it was light, you worked. When it's dark, you don't work. Of course, we have electricity now so we've screwed ourselves with an easy time of day schedule.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by prometheus76 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:48AM (#30697617)

It's also much easier to coordinate activities with others with clocks, especially if those other people live in other time zones. "Meet me at sunrise" is a wide window.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dylan604 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:12AM (#30697785)

Except when part of the world undergoes a change in the clocks weeks before other parts of the world does, so now the world has to deal with the same change twice. So this makes it 4 times a year the world has to deal with the confusion, not just twice. Hell, I'm only familiar with US/UK, so maybe it's even more???

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by lmm on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:07PM (#30694443)

You might enjoy https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dylan604 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:59PM (#30695160)

Wow, a website that gives HN a run for its money on "how small can we make a font?" type of styling. Although your linked site actually has style. <ducks>

Edit: otherwise, yes, this is kind of the style I was thinking. However, I was hoping less of a "religious" difference and more of an enlightened "idiots did that?" kind of thing.

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