Me, in Arizona:
Though honestly, my thought is if the rest of the country gets rid of DST, I feel like Pacific should go to PDT because it’s incredibly nice when that part of the country aligns with Arizona’s time. Granted, that might be weirder for the eastern Mountain time states.
I'm convinced at this point that it's kept around at least in part because it's disruptive and disorienting.
I suspect one of the biggest reasons we’ve kept it is to avoid updating all the software to be compatible with the change. Especially legacy systems.
We were so close a few years ago when the senate passed a bill with unanimous consent, only for the house to say fuck you and refuse to even consider it (can't have anything useful getting done).
No one could agree on what the permanent time should be, that's why it failed.
Set the damn clock to noon at noon on summer solstice and leave it the fuck alone.
Hating DST is stupid.
You get an extra hour of daylight after work to actually get things done outside.
If you never ever venture outside or don't work, I can see why that might not make sense.
Why do 9-5ers think everyone works 9-5 and we should change all of time to accommodate that instead of talking to your employers?
This just in, desk jobs that allow WFH don't exist.
You realize DST is zero sum, right? Anything you gain in the evening, you lose in the morning, and vice versa.
Also, anything you gain in the spring, you lose in the fall, and vice versa.
Nothing is ever gained.
It’s the change that is an extra inconvenience that causes disruption in people’s plans and circadian rhythms. Also, for the neurotic out there, the clock is technically wrong during DST as it doesn’t reflect the sun’s position in the sky.
You can just get a job that starts earlier, or with flex time.
If it's that important to certain people then those workplaces can just have different seasonal hours. Why fuck with timekeeping because of a few peoples personal preference?
How does moving the clock forward an hour give you an extra hour of daylight after work?
Its 5am and I'm cranky because I known it's 4am!
Those both seem like Jellico orders…
I don’t want to hear about it. Turn the clock ahead one hour. Get it done.
Imagine if the enterprise had to update all their clocks and schedules to align with Starfleet Headquarters
cannonoically, they do!
Consequence of warp speed, even long hours at impulse cause some discrepancy. They time sync with federation beacons after being out of touch for a while.
We do this now with NTP. Digital clocks have a surprising amount of drift even without relativistic effects.
Time management is already likely a nightmare in the Federation due to all the differing planets/civilizations/etc
There was a "Men In Black" cartoon. One of the funniest episodes was that J couldn't adapt himself to MIB's 37 hour long day.
Let's distribute the extra time across all days.
Can someone do the math and find out how many seconds/minutes would be added to each day?
I think you’re confusing DST with leap days?
Yeah, you're right 😂
My understanding is you’d lose time that way actually because our days are actually just under 24 hours.
But they are slowly getting longer as the Earth's rotation slows. Humans have actually slowed it down to a measurable degree through climate change and melting icecaps.
