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Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
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Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#182Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have absolutely nothing to gain from the sun being close to its highest point at 12 o' clock. I have a lot to gain from an extra hour of light in my evenings
> I have a lot to gain from an extra hour of light in my evenings. May I suggest leaving for home earlier? And a child comment of yours wants an extra hour of light in the mornings. You can't have it both ways! There's a finite amount of light in the day: not everyone can have everything he wants. So why not just settle for making noon be noon, rather than taking an hour from Spooky23 and giving it to you, or taking…
I don't know what kind of flexibility HN'ers have, but the overwhelming majority of people can't just decide to leave whenever they please.
And it's utterly missing the point, keeping track of time is an inherently social issue. If I didn't care about other people (and again, had no time-related obligations to work or study), I'd most likely just use UTC everywhere and wake up whenever I wanted. I want more light in the evenings exactly because that's when I'm outside, and if I went to bed at 8pm, my social life would suffer.
Making solar noon 12 o' clock would be giving the all light to Spooky23 (and wasting most of it), as practically everyone wakes up at most 6 hours before noon, but are awake for 10 hours after. Noon isn't the middle of normal waking day. Making solar noon 2 hours late is exactly the compromise!
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#184Laughter from India. We don't have this DST stuff but I have to deal with this at work as the clients are American. Damn, this is some serious mess.
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#185Just wrote a post a week ago on the subject of date/time issues programmers have to be aware of: https://medium.com/@florian_32814/date-time-526a4f86badb
It's almost sad that Massachusetts switching wouldn't even make it into that document... (too normal)
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same thing here. I use 24 hour system anywhere I can. Converting it isn't an effort for me. But I wish everyone around would use it.
Well, in English, you can't say "16 o'clock", can you? You can only say "sixteen hundred hours" (which sounds terrible, if you ask me).
16 o'clock sounds just fine.
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#187Personally, 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.
The people who came up with it were people living in more agrarian times, when your kids wouldn't be screaming, they'd be up watering the chickens and helping you out around the farm before day-break no matter what the hour of the day.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#188Personally, 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.
That'd be "Daylight saving time", not "Daylight savings time". Not sure why so many people get this wrong.
Re: Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
#189Personally, 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 former schoolchild, please no, PLEASE NO. Waking up early is already hard, having to wake up an hour earlier than I would otherwise have to for the entire year would be hell. Just use normal non-DST time. Please.
Can the people downvoting please explain?
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#190Everyone whines about DST, but I love the DST "timezone" in summer. I leave work in the sun. It feels like I still have time to play and have fun after work.
It's great.