What if we changed the system so that the middle of the day is at midday? If people want to get up early, they would be allowed to change their alarms.
The winter will be fine because it is what it is now and…. What exactly is the problem with having the middle of the day at midday in the summertime? What do we gain by shifting it by an hour?
You are jesting when you say DST, i.e. changing the clocks, is “a wonderful and distinctly American tradition”, yes? It was first proposed by a New Zealander; the first bill to introduce it was in the United Kingdom; the first cities to introduce it were in Canada; and the first countries to introduce it were Germany and Austria.
America had less to do with developing DST than it did with almost any other innovation in the last 150 years. When one considers how much America has been involved in over that time in every other field, DST must rank as one of the least American traditions in modern history. Which makes sense, because it's a policy that is more useful the further away from the equator you get, and the US is a lot further south than Europe and Canada.
The time of the day is arbitrary as long as the date rolls offer when most of us are asleep. It's a question of whether organizations can figure out what time the day starts on their own or whether they need the federal government, bastion of wisdom, to step in and tell people what time it really is according to the season. But maybe we aren't disciplined enough to get out the door earlier in the summer. All I can say is screw the time change and screw all-year dst. Just put me in the Atlantic time zone, presumably in the middle of the ocean, and leave me alone.
Can we retire the “commute in the morning in the dark and come home at dark”? This is already the reality on the east coast in winter regardless of time.
This is actually the first time I’ve encountered this argument. Perhaps what’s in order is parents (but not schools) getting the day off to honor our sacrifice lol
In an ideal world it will motivate schools and jobs in northern areas where it makes sense to implement summer/winter schedules, and there would be standard days to switch that become conventional by region. Southern states and people with real non office jobs that depend on daylight will go about life as they always have. The clocks will stay the same but the time you get up will be local and regional and set by popular consensus.
I am aware that in practice this will be confusing and chaotic and probably dangerous even. But we are Americans, we like it that way.
I change time zones of one hour or more multiple times per year, for decades. I have yet to be involved in an automobile accident or any significant health issue the day(s) following the time zone change. It's all nonsense.
Any system that separates solar noon from what people call noon rots our connection to the world.
What if we changed the system so that the middle of the day is at midday? If people want to get up early, they would be allowed to change their alarms.
The winter will be fine because it is what it is now and…. What exactly is the problem with having the middle of the day at midday in the summertime? What do we gain by shifting it by an hour?
You are jesting when you say DST, i.e. changing the clocks, is “a wonderful and distinctly American tradition”, yes? It was first proposed by a New Zealander; the first bill to introduce it was in the United Kingdom; the first cities to introduce it were in Canada; and the first countries to introduce it were Germany and Austria.
America had less to do with developing DST than it did with almost any other innovation in the last 150 years. When one considers how much America has been involved in over that time in every other field, DST must rank as one of the least American traditions in modern history. Which makes sense, because it's a policy that is more useful the further away from the equator you get, and the US is a lot further south than Europe and Canada.
The time of the day is arbitrary as long as the date rolls offer when most of us are asleep. It's a question of whether organizations can figure out what time the day starts on their own or whether they need the federal government, bastion of wisdom, to step in and tell people what time it really is according to the season. But maybe we aren't disciplined enough to get out the door earlier in the summer. All I can say is screw the time change and screw all-year dst. Just put me in the Atlantic time zone, presumably in the middle of the ocean, and leave me alone.
Can we retire the “commute in the morning in the dark and come home at dark”? This is already the reality on the east coast in winter regardless of time.
This is actually the first time I’ve encountered this argument. Perhaps what’s in order is parents (but not schools) getting the day off to honor our sacrifice lol
In an ideal world it will motivate schools and jobs in northern areas where it makes sense to implement summer/winter schedules, and there would be standard days to switch that become conventional by region. Southern states and people with real non office jobs that depend on daylight will go about life as they always have. The clocks will stay the same but the time you get up will be local and regional and set by popular consensus.
I am aware that in practice this will be confusing and chaotic and probably dangerous even. But we are Americans, we like it that way.
I change time zones of one hour or more multiple times per year, for decades. I have yet to be involved in an automobile accident or any significant health issue the day(s) following the time zone change. It's all nonsense.