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Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#91

This is excellent. With the rise of air conditioning, daylight savings has considerably less electricity savings than it used to. It will also make timekeeping more consistent. I have lived in Arizona for the past few years and it is pleasant to know that you will always be at UTC-7:00.

True, but this keeps daylight savings permanent not standard time.

I don't care what we choose, personally, as long as we choose. This madness has to end. I'm not going to bicker about which one is kept.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#92

Won’t take effect until 2023, but good to see it happen.

Can you explain to me why this is good. It seems like a pain, but I assume there must be a good reason for it. Does it truly save energy? Is this documented somewhere?

The purpose of DST was to give people extra daylight time during the summer when people wanted to do things outside and needed the sun to do it. Like working their fields, etc. It’s not as necessary now that we have electric lighting and farm tractors.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#93

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

Standard Time would make more sense than DST since that would mean noon is at 12pm (give or take a few minutes depending on latitude) not 1pm.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#94

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

Depression equals darkness after work.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#95
post #54

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

Which is what this effectively does. We can get sunset at 5pm instead of 4pm in the winter in Seattle now. Really, the choice is a tradeoff between earlier sunrises or later sunsets.

An hour of sunlight from 4-5 is useless. Most people will still be working. The tradeoff is that most people have to wake up and go to school/work in complete darkness during the winter.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#100
does this make the clock flip-flopping permanent, or that we will stop doing it?

personally, i just want to punch the moving clock in the face. it nearly killed me last year when I was just starting to get an exercise routine at the end of winter, and then it sent me back into the dark by an hour, completely fucking up my schedule. i absolutely blame many of my problems on these flip flopping clocks, and I do not think i am alone.

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