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Re: Case for making Standard Time permanent

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 01, 2023, 10:38 PM UTC

_aavaa_ wrote: post #9

jjk166 wrote: post #8

My favorite proposal is making days from winter to summer equinox 20 seconds longer and days from summer equinox to winter 20 seconds shorter with 5 days of regular 24 hour time split between the two (6 on leap years). It works out to an hour of daylight savings either way, but it's gradual instead of a sharp transition, and we already have the infrastructure for handling non-24 hour days in the form of leap seconds.…

Man, the Romans had this one right. Simply say that from sunrise to sunset is 12 hours (and that much again between sunset and sunrise). Problem solved. No need to worry about more/less than 24 hours in a day.

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Re: Case for making Standard Time permanent

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Post by vhodges » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 4:24 PM UTC

DocKitKat wrote: post #10

vhodges wrote: post #4

I am on Summer time all time. Winter is the worst for me since it means I get up an hour 'earlier' on the clock. The dark makes me want to crash and an hour earlier for that too. Also... 'standard' time means it's dark at 4:30pm where I live on the solstice (and I am not that far north) which kind of sucks, so it makes sense for me to champion for permanent daylight savings (which what the Governments for BC, WA, OR…

The problem is people won’t want to send their kids to school in the dark and end up more depressed waking up and going to work themselves in the dark. Russia tried permanent daylight time for a couple of years and ended up switching to permanent standard time: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29773559 For southern and middle USA , it’s not going to be a big deal, either option likely works. For Northern USA and…

I am in the Lower Mainland (BC) and it's still dark(ish) at 8am. I've resigned myself to just getting up at 2am-3am in the winter - but it means crashing at 7-8pm. Note it probably is the shorter days that cause this as I have no problem staying up late in the summer (dusk is at 9:30pm or so for me on the solstice)

Re: Case for making Standard Time permanent

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Post by isthatafact » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC

It should be a basic human right to experience daylight every day after work, and it feels absolutely necessary for general mental well-being for me.

If after-work daylight means going to work in the dark for most, it is because the standard 8-10 hour work day is far too long.

And "standard" time in summer would just take away an hour of usable daylight for most people.