It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
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It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
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Re: It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
#2I just don't see the point in this or anything at all to do with daylights savings. When has anyone ever cared about clocks and sunrise matching up? People like to say stuff like for farmers, but if the sun is important for your job you don't give a fuck what number the clock shows. If you want a different schedule, then change the schedule, not the clocks.
I don't believe adjusting clocks for any reason at any point or time in history has ever been helpful in any way.
Re: It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
#3> What we really needed were clocks that automatically kept pace with sunrise. It would have been difficult to build self-adjusting mechanical clocks, but with today's computer-controlled clocks it's easy.
> Not all countries would be likely to adopt sunrise standard time. [...] To avoid confusion, I think it would be best to adopt one international standard time system.
Re: It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
#4I like having late sunsets.
Re: It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
#5Paywall
Re: It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
#6This seems to be an idea that simply won't work everywhere. I can read outside at night during the summer because the sun barely goes below the horizon. In June, sunsets are around 11:30 and sunrise is at 3:00am. It really doesn't matter if you set the clock so that it rises at 7am nor not.
During the winter, 10:00am sunrises and sunsets at 14:30. The times in between June and December vary, unsurprisingly, and gaining/losing 5-6 minutes a day isn't uncommon.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, folks at the equator are having fairly standardized 12 hour days for most of the year.
We'd never know what time it is anywhere during the year (unlike time zones with or without DST), and some folks would find it seriously inconvenient.
Re: It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
#7This opinion piece has to be satire. It's not hard to pick the idea apart and the ideas presented are self-contradicting.
> It might be difficult to vary the frequency of alternating electrical current. This would cause the old-fashioned synchronous clocks and timers to disagree with sunrise standard time. Some household appliances might need to be adjusted or replaced.
> Of course, people would be upset that their existing timepieces became obsolete. But really, is the cost of replacing clocks and watches a significant burden? You could stick a little sunrise standard time display onto the face of your beloved grandfather clock.
The tone in these sections is the clearest suggestion of satire.