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Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

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Re: Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

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Post by randomdata »

Jaruzel wrote: post #16

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.

As a grain farmer I cannot imagine what kind of farmer is worried about the wall clock. For us, the only thing that determines if we work or not is the weather. Maybe the only advantage I have noticed is that the parts dealership is open an hour later if we have a breakdown. However, we're also not yet done for the year and won't be before we go back to standard time, so that falls apart for our late season work anyway.

Further, if the UK is anything like my country, only ~2% of the population are farmers, so even if they did all object the 98% wouldn't care and move forward anyway.

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Post by flavor8 »

BossingAround wrote: post #30

The 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. https://xkcd.com/927/

That's called "different timezones", which we know how to deal with. (Although there is a certain attraction to everybody observing UTC.)

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

BossingAround wrote: post #30

The 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. https://xkcd.com/927/

There was no standard to begin with - switching to happens on different dates in different countries.

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

ReptileMan wrote: post #42

In the article is missing how many percentages of people are bothered. Since the benefits for the rest are quite big. Since 8 hour jet lag requires only a night worst case two of sleep to adapt, why is this 1 hour such a big deal.

People i know are plagued by jetlag for weeks.

Secondly the supposed benefits have never been backed by aby hard-evidence, it's all make-believe.

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Post by grey-area »

laurent92 wrote: post #10
varispeed wrote: post #5

I 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.

Well let's do that then where it makes sense, instead of a sudden arbitrary shift by an hour for all clocks, which is nowhere near enough for a 3 hour shift anyway.
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