This article has a very city-centric view. Rural communities, and farming very much prefer having DST. Every time removing DST has been postulated in the UK, it is the rural areas that object the most.
Citation needed.
Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
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#22This article has a very city-centric view. Rural communities, and farming very much prefer having DST. Every time removing DST has been postulated in the UK, it is the rural areas that object the most.
They can decide to start waking up an hour earlier or later without forcing everyone else to change their clocks.
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#23Can we get rid of timse zone and leap seconds too?
No, we can’t.
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#24I don't know how someone ever could think this is a good idea and also got so many governments to implement this. Whoever is behind it, he or she is a genius of evil. Let's ditch this nonsense now.
It is natural that work is shifted towards the morning and people have time after work in the evening for personal matters. People do what is most important in the morning, because we can focus better. Therefore worktimes need to follow the sunrise, especially beyond 45° latitudes where the sunrise shifts by more than 3 hrs between winter and summer.
But why the changing of clock settings? Could have just shown up earlier to follow the sunrise?
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#25I don't know how someone ever could think this is a good idea and also got so many governments to implement this. Whoever is behind it, he or she is a genius of evil. Let's ditch this nonsense now.
This was done to save electricity. More direct sun, less light and heating. Historically in France the saving was equivalent to the whole consumption of the city of Paris over the day (maybe 10-20% of the whole country). It seems people don't care about energy anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This was a theory not really backed by evidence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
(Maybe a tiny electricity decrease and heating usage increase on average, depending on latitude - which would lead to more CO2 emissions overall, depending on the power source).
I think the idea of "change time to save power" was a fine experiment, but it clearly failed to produce meaningful results so we can stop the experiment.
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#26Social issues aside, the software perspective of keeping up with DST is very costly. Every time any government entity anywhere on Earth changes its mind about what zone they're in and when, the IANA needs to reissue the TZDB. Then every OS and platform vendor needs to patch up to a new TZDB. Just for laughs, Java seems to have its own TZDB so in general your OS and application layer might disagree about zones. This i…
> the software perspective of keeping up with DST is very costly.
To be clear, the software perspective is to use Unix time instead.[0]
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#27Having young kids, I'd love to see the changing of the clocks go the way of the dinosaurs. I don't care which way, just pick one and stick with it.
Same. Pets and other animals also don't care about the time on the clock. It's not like they notice it's DST or not and shift waking up by an hour.
Besides the software insanity it causes there's a real human cost, and it wears me down for at least 2 weeks until everyone starts adjusting.
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#28Yeah but what about half/hour or shifting timezones?
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#29This article has a very city-centric view. Rural communities, and farming very much prefer having DST. Every time removing DST has been postulated in the UK, it is the rural areas that object the most.
Can you back it up??? And Farms can just change their daily routine regardless of the watch. They could in fact do it whenever they want. Imagine that huh
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#30The next problem emerges when 2/6 of the countries with DST decide to observe what we call summer time, 2/6 decide to change to winter time, 1/6 decide to continue observing DST following the US model and 1/6 decide to continue observing DST following the European model.