chipschap

If you have to ask "why emacs" this is probably not for you!

I'm mildly surprised this discussion hasn't brought up the artificiality of daylight savings time, summer time, and whatever other names it might be called by around the world. Certainly the concept is prevalent enough.

Leaving aside the arguments about saving energy (I am not knowledgeable enough to speak to that in any event), daylight savings time seems to be an enormous confusion factor, especially since (as one example) Europe and North America have different start and end dates.

On one level it seems that DST is a way of patching a system that is fundamentally flawed, hence some of the very interesting suggestions in these discussions about alternative methods of timekeeping. But changing such an entrenched and widespread standard might be next to impossible.