 If there is one political belief I will never budge on, it's daylight savings being a ridiculous concept that should have been done away with years ago. All of the research on it points to none of the purported benefits being real, and it being a net negative. I don't care which side of the clock SA falls on, whether it's +9:30 or +10:30, just stop changing it. All of these other countries seem to function just fine without it, I'm sure the people who want an extra hour of sun can adapt. 20 comments
 @BrodieOnLinux since I moved to a country with no DST, my life has got objectively better. But I also earn more money, so correlation schmorrelation... I guess.  @BrodieOnLinux UTC time should be the standard so when i tell you 19:00 hours it's the same 19:00 hours for you and me.  @10leej @BrodieOnLinux Yeah, I shouldn't need an entire table of timezones and multiple other ways people call them on my sticky notes just to figure out when specified time will struck on my end of the Earth. I don't care about CEST, DST and other shenanigans, when I read what looks like an international correspondence. People, please specify UTC time!  @BrodieOnLinux In the US, all 100 senators passed the bill to end DST after the next switch over unanimously. For goodness knows what reason, it was killed without a vote in 2022. @BrodieOnLinux @cameronbosch so its the Brits again, figures :fernshake:
 @BrodieOnLinux in Ukraine we canceled summer time just this year. If I'm not mistaken we are going to switch to the winter time once more and stay on it forever. It was always pitch black in winter at 18:00, but in summer it was only getting a little dim at 20:00. Now it's gonna be a little dim at 19:00 in summer, so I guess it is marginally better. At 07:00 it is still quite dark in winter, and pretty bright in summer. Now the morning will be a little darker (still bright enough) in summer @BrodieOnLinux now that I think about it, this is only how it is for the west of Ukraine. The east has it all much brighter in the morning, from what I've heard. @mks_h @BrodieOnLinux what really blows my mind is that Hungary and France are in the same timezone... I mean the part of they with light and the time on the clock are totally different things... @BrodieOnLinux on Brazil that's also happening. It was removed on 2019, but it's returning on November. Back in the day when people only used to use electricity only with light bulbs it could make sense, but today we use electricity on everything and at any time. Even the light bulbs are more efficient, so it really makes no sense to do that  @BrodieOnLinux it’s why I like it when I’m at my house in Arizona other then one small Northern portion the entire state does not respect daylight saving time and is on its own time.  it does make it annoying when people call you at 4 or 5 am though. But my phone is on silent tell 7. @BrodieOnLinux In Canada, when we switch to standard time, the sun sets so early that I have essentially 4 to 5 hours of safety before I cannot be outside due to my blindness. Yet, during the summer, dangerous light levels set in at around 8 to 9 PM. All of this assumes I wake up at noon. If you're not going to abolish DST, at the very least, you should activate it during the months where the sun normally sets before I've drank my morning coffee. @acidiclight @BrodieOnLinux but if you wake up every day at noon, you are already ignoring the clock. |
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@BrodieOnLinux i like dark 5pm it makes me feel like the day is over. i feel much happier at night for some weird reason lol