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I'm glad they decided to keep summer time. I live in fear that we'll decide to abolish DST but keep the darker evenings all year round.
Most of Europe will move to winter time tomorrow and also abolish DST and I have the same feelings about it as you. I prefer darker mornings than evenings, as I've never been an early riser.
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I think that’s the only real objection to this move. Any country is entitled to do what it wants regarding DST, but transitions should be orderly and planned well in advance, not imposed from one day to the next. I guess it shows how Morocco is not exactly a democratic country, so you get the classic tyrant-style decision-making here and there.
> I guess it shows how Morocco is not exactly a democratic country, so you get the classic tyrant-style decision-making here and there. It has nothing to do with Democracy but incompetence. Many people think that democracy brings modernity and order. It is really the other way around.
In a democracy a single individual couldn't make this decision, so if a president or prime minister decides to do such a drastic change so quickly other people (congress for example) will put a brake to it and force a reflexion/transition period.
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> I guess it shows how Morocco is not exactly a democratic country, so you get the classic tyrant-style decision-making here and there. It has nothing to do with Democracy but incompetence. Many people think that democracy brings modernity and order. It is really the other way around.
It has to do with separation of powers. In a democracy a single individual couldn't make this decision, so if a president or prime minister decides to do such a drastic change so quickly other people (congress for example) will put a brake to it and force a reflexion/transition period.
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Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the hours with.
Quite a few people work relative to market trading hours and customary times to hold earnings calls and roadshows. Sales people work around their store business hours. Schools have fixed schedules. Hours sadly dictate schedules for most people
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It is the word the Chinese would like non-Chinese to use when talking about the city. It’s a classic example of modern cultural re-appropriation, because Peking was the widely-accepted transliteration - until attitudes (and power) changed and the Chinese asked the world to use Beijing instead. It wouldn’t be particularly far-fetched to imagine Turks might also ask the world, eventually, to use their own spelling to r…
Still "Peking" in german.
The shift to Beijing did happen in Dutch, without too much fuss. Peking is now only used for the duck recipe (Pekingeend).
Odd really, because Beijing is kind of unique in this aspect. For most capitals the Dutch name is consequently used (Berlijn/Parijs vs. Berlin/Paris).
PROGRAMMERS: We have timezone homework to do again :/
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Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the hours with.
The easiest way to shift the schedule of everyone in an area is just to shift the time.
I'm glad they decided to keep summer time. I live in fear that we'll decide to abolish DST but keep the darker evenings all year round.
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The easiest way to shift the schedule of everyone in an area is just to shift the time.
But you don't need to shift everyone else's schedule, only your own. The easiest way to shift your own schedule is just to shift it.
And shift or service worker will just come an hour later, no big deal.
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Do you mean 9-6 or 10-7? I've done a 10-7 shift, it's miserable. Waste half your morning, and half your evening. You have to get ready for work when stores and banks are just opening, and you get home just as those shops are closing. I prefer 7-4 because it leaves a bit of late afternoon and the whole evening.
It’s possible to work 9-5 and still eat lunch.
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