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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
Tangent: what's the purpose of closing the financial markets overnight? Why not just have them open all the time?
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To clarify, the European Commission had a public consultation on DST[1]. The response was strongly in favour of ending the clock changes, and furthermore favoured permanent DST. The EC has called on member states to come up with an appropriate way of accommodating the public’s preference, telling them to coordinate so that time differences across borders are kept to a sensible minimum. No decision has been made yet t…
>To clarify, the European Commission had a public consultation on DST A public consultation, conducted online, to which 4 million people (less that 1% of the population of Europe) answered. 3 million of those were from Germany.
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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.
Sure. When talking about Finland or Scandinavia. But it is very possible/likely to have a bunch of incompetent congress-man. That's even worse that a single incompetent douche.
I'd also like to see New England move to Atlantic Standard Time. I was there last winter and it got dark before 5pm!
Youd love Seattle, where sunset is at roughly 4:20 in late December. Otoh, it doesn't get truly dark until 10 in June.
Four months where the sun is under 30°, where the color temp from daylight casts everything with a golden evening glow. A glance outside feels timeless as your brain tells you that it should be 2pm, but it looks like evening. It’s even more magical in the winter with that rare snowfall. The colors shift to a purple and grey when the sky is dark and filled with ice. When it clears, the spectrum shifts to thousands of shades of blues over a hundred minutes after sunset. There is an added bit of splendor when the world is awake and continues with its work but the sun is down.
I just moved back from 40° north to 48°, and those early sunsets, colorful days, and summer twilights were sorely missed.
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Sure. When talking about Finland or Scandinavia. But it is very possible/likely to have a bunch of incompetent congress-man. That's even worse that a single incompetent douche.
How is a bunch of incompetent leaders worse than one incompetent leader?
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How is a bunch of incompetent leaders worse than one incompetent leader?
A bunch of incompetent leaders can get nothing done. They'll focus on attacking each other and destroying what ground they live on. An incompetent leader will try to get his vision realized. Might not work all of it but some of it might pan out.
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I'm curious to know, what is the point of linking to solar time? What advantage is there to the Sun reaching its highest point at 12 'o clock? Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most social events also happen after the work day. So our day is already shifted from what would logically follow from our clock. Being on +2 already feels like a compromise between the two. I'd lov…
As I presume you know, Solar noon represents the highest point of the Sun in the day. It seems fitting that the 'work hours' should be 4 hrs either side of that (8am-4pm). Being a 'sunlover' I'm regularly up before dawn so that I can catch the first rays of Sun as it crosses the horizon. To me it's the most beautiful part of the day. Unfortunately, we have semi-arbitrarily defined 'zones' that fluctuate 1hr because o…
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How is a bunch of incompetent leaders worse than one incompetent leader?
A bunch of incompetent leaders can get nothing done. They'll focus on attacking each other and destroying what ground they live on. An incompetent leader will try to get his vision realized. Might not work all of it but some of it might pan out.
The assertion that the countries which do not use DST are "mostly in Africa and Asia" is an odd way to put it. The countries that DO use DST are more of the exception now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#/media/Fi...
In Italy, for example, having DST means you avoid dawn at 4am in the summer (getting nice longer evenings in exchange) _and_ dawn at 8.30am in the winter.