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Custoslibera @lemmy.world

1y ago

Daylight savings is a silly invention

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Every time I see a meme like this, I freak out a little bit because I wonder if it's happening soon
I've been an adult through 20+ changes of the clock, and I still will not know when it's time to change them until 3 days before
- 3 days before?
  If anything I notice the wrong time on my oven.
  
  Found the guy without kids. Each switch is hell for 3-7 days, regardless of age. I like to know it's coming way ahead of time so I can start adjusting their schedules to limit the damage.
- Perhaps the only good thing about living in Arizona is that I don't have to deal with daylight savings time. We have too much daylight here as it is
- 20+ time changes just accounts for the last 10+ years (assuming you live in an area with DST)
  
  And I'm 28, the math maths

Goddamnit , I thought the US Congress got rid of daylight savings time, but as always, it looks to have does in the house.
- IIRC there are only 2 states that don't abide by Daylight Saving Time: Arizona & Hawaii

Daylight Savings is bad and its defenders should feel bad.
- I wouldn't mind moving forward an hour permanently, but first light at 3 AM with a 4:30 sunrise fucking blows. I'd much rather have it be light until 9 than 8, and I suspect way more people are still awake until 9 than those who get up around 4.
- Western Australia has successfully defended itself against the restern Australia and their demonic timewizardry
- To be fair: If you live in the south, it doesn't make much sense, but if you live a bit further north it's the difference between getting up when the sun is a a reasonable place, or getting up in the middle of the night (winter) or the middle of the day (summer). I want it to be light out when I'm awake, not when it's sleeping time.
  Turns out it's easier to adjust the clock than to say "work starts at 9 in the winter and at 8 in the summer"
  
  I don’t want it to be dark so early. Living in the north, even with the extra morning hour in winter I still have to wake up in darkness. What’s the use of it?

me returning from work in the dark after spending all afternoon under cold white artificial lighting, and no dst:

Let's just flip a coin. Heads we stick with summer time, tails we stick with standard. In 2026 it goes live. Gives everyone 2 years to update what they need. Humans will adapt.
- I know I might be crazy for saying this, but I prefer midnight to be at 00:00, not 01:00.
  
  Unless you live on one of the 24 astronomical borders between timezones it's neither anyway

Just push the whole world time 30mins into the past/future and abolish it completely. No need for that stupid shit.
- No. Just leave it at the current summer setting.
  
  Meanwhile, I have to take Vitamin D supplements during winter because I'm up in the dark, working inside during the sunlight hours, and knock off just in time for the sun to disappear and take the dog for a run on a sport field under flood lights.
  But let's save an hour of sunlight in summer months so dinner can feel like second lunch and we have to block out the windows to start feeling sleepy in the evening to prepare for bed.
  Fuck the circadium rythm! /s
- Hard agree.
  It’s a terrible terrible invention.
  
  But what do you do instead? Take a look at when some parts of the world would see their sunrise and sunset if all the world switched to winter time or summer time forever. What works at one place, results in a crazy daylight cycle in another.

alarm goes off
me staring at the numbers
"I've forgotten how to read."

Instead of springing forward, let's just keep falling back every year. Eventually it'll work out.

Yeah, this shit needs to stop.

Did daylight savings just start somewhere in the world or is this meme completely out of season?
- Australia 😌

Daylight saving is supposed to save a huge amount of energy, and I am all for that…, but could we maybe still not do it?.. Maybe just hibernate for the winter…, save loads more energy and, yes, solved it … and…sleep 😁
- Annoying part is it doesn't even save a huge amount of energy. Negligible amounts either way.
  
  Missed work and sleep cycle disregulation effects are not trivial either. It's dumb. Pathetic that our spineless politicians can't even do something simple and non partisan like getting rid of this bullshit.
- Costs money. Costs lives.
- Back in the day it did because people could keep their lights off for longer. But now they need to keep their AC on more.

It's Limmy on Lemmy!

My room is still messed up, and I know why! Yea-yeah!

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