Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time

Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by fvirexi on Saturday November 02, 2013 @06:09AM (#6658730)

I find this a really good argument for it: how are you supposed to know if you call somebody in the middle of the night, if it's noon where you are, and the hour is the same? By having different time-zones, you need to look it up, but then you have an intuitive way of judging which stage of the day they are perceiving.

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Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by hrjet on Saturday November 02, 2013 @10:33AM (#6659304)

No, time-zones alone can't give you an estimate of sleep-times (even ignoring individual sleep patterns for the moment).

Time-zones are related to the longitude of the location You also need to account for the latitude, and the time of the year, because the pattern of day and night depends on all three factors.

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Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by Expez on Saturday November 02, 2013 @06:15AM (#6658748)

You are complecting two problems: 1) When does the other person sleep. 2) What does his watch show.

Making 2) easier does not change anything with regard to 1).

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Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by philwelch on Saturday November 02, 2013 @04:55PM (#6660769)

For most people, their sleep is highly correlated with what their watches show.

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Re:Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time by fvirexi on Saturday November 02, 2013 @06:21AM (#6658753)

It doesn't change the sleep patterns, but would you say it does not make a difference in judging at which hours other people sleep?

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