US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by notriddle on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:28PM (#30703633)

Of course not, but that's what DST is intended to approximate. It just does a bad job of it due to insufficient granularity. If we did a twelve minute clock shift, with ten evenly-spaced switch days, the jet lag would be a lot less bad.

Since that would also require a lot more work, it doesn't happen, but it's also more obvious what DST is actually doing when you think of it like that.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dkonofalski on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:52PM (#30705176)

So is it designed to approximate a fixed dawn or a fixed noon? It sounds like you're contracting yourself unless I'm missing something.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by notriddle on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:13AM (#30707890)

Standard Time approximates a fixed noon. DST is a poorly-done jury-rig to make it track dawn instead.

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