A bit off topic, but I was equally intrigued by the fact that the article was on aol.com. Made me do a brief double-take.
Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
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Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#22Over here in Seattle sunset is at 4:19 in winter. Maybe we need to switch to some other time zone.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#23I would rather see the planet stop using time-zones altogether. Let's all go UTC, adjust our clocks and schedules once and be done with it. It doesn't matter what number my clock says at noon/sunrise/sunset. If it is about working-hours coinciding with daylight, businesses can adjust their working hours as needed (and post them on their site without you having to convert to local time to know when you can call) edit:…
https://qntm.org/abolish
damn. some good points in here. I stand corrected.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#24Personally, it would be brilliant if we'd just go to permanent daylight savings time nationwide. The transition is hard on the kids and living in the northern part of the country, the extra daylight is appreciated.
I think we should shift time zones a little every day, so that (in some designated location, say New York or DC) the sun rises at exactly 6am every morning. This eliminates the sudden transition to daylight savings which is the source of most complaints, and it would be trivial to implement with modern electronics.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#25Maine is tentatively on-board: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/27/maine-may-switch-to-at... New Hampshire looks to be against it so far: http://www.concordmonitor.com/time-zone-change-atlantic-9808...
Yeah, it really screws with us up here. Once you get up above the meridian, days get pretty short in the winter. Moving those hours around helps exactly none. No farmer has their life improved. It's not saving energy. It's just a dumb setting on the clock.
It's super depressing in December and January when you get up to go to work in the dark, and by the time you get out at 5, it is pitch dark again.
I do wish we'd fallen back earlier, like we used to. I'd much rather have that extra hour of daylight in the morning when I could maybe use it, rather than on my commute home.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#26Over here in Seattle sunset is at 4:19 in winter. Maybe we need to switch to some other time zone.
Maybe you could put the whole city on a barge and migrate south for the winter?
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#27Personally, it would be brilliant if we'd just go to permanent daylight savings time nationwide. The transition is hard on the kids and living in the northern part of the country, the extra daylight is appreciated.
As a parent of young children, we dread changing the clocks & curse the evil people who came up with this terrible idea.
If Dante's Inferno were to be written today, their would be a 10th Circle for those who came up with daylight savings time. It would involve the sound of screaming children, important appointments & clocks that change at random.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#28Personally, it would be brilliant if we'd just go to permanent daylight savings time nationwide. The transition is hard on the kids and living in the northern part of the country, the extra daylight is appreciated.
I think we should shift time zones a little every day, so that (in some designated location, say New York or DC) the sun rises at exactly 6am every morning. This eliminates the sudden transition to daylight savings which is the source of most complaints, and it would be trivial to implement with modern electronics.
"trivial"
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#29Maine is tentatively on-board: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/27/maine-may-switch-to-at... New Hampshire looks to be against it so far: http://www.concordmonitor.com/time-zone-change-atlantic-9808...
Yeah, it really screws with us up here. Once you get up above the meridian, days get pretty short in the winter. Moving those hours around helps exactly none. No farmer has their life improved. It's not saving energy. It's just a dumb setting on the clock.
Time zones aren't for farmers; they're for employees who have employers who won't (or can't) let their employees set hours that give them free time in the daylight.
There's also opposing needs: working folk like afternoon sun so they have daylight when they get off work, parents with school children like morning sun, so it is light when their children are waiting for the bus, and in the winter there's not enough daylight to satisfy both groups of people.