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What should be done and over with by now? (piefed.social)
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[+] -15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

Oh, as far as daylight savings time changes, there are complications to that regarding seasonal changes and when the sun rises and falls..

  • During winter months of the year, school children end up having to go out to their bus stops while it's still pitch black dark for another hour or so. Is that safe? Not at all. That's how children get abducted, being out in the night waiting for the bus.
  • Do you expect the schools to readjust all their time schedules for kids that might barely even understand the flow of time and the change of seasons to compensate for shorter vs longer days?

There's more to this than the simplicity of the numbers on the clock, there's also the complexity of the seasons and shorter vs longer days.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    If you live somewhere it's dark in the morning, start school an hour later. Don't demand the entire populace fuck up their sleep schedule. If DST wasn't already implemented, it would sound like an insane overcomplication to solve relatively simple inconveniences in the modern age. No matter what the clock says, you only exist for a certain amount of time every day. If you want to get up earlier or later than usual, do it by yourself and leave me out of it.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Yeah, you really expected me at age 7 to walk a quarter mile in the dark to get to my bus stop, when I didn't even know how to tell time until age 9?

    Or vice versa, adjust the school schedule by an hour, I still didn't yet know how to tell time yet.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    ...you couldn't tell time before 9?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    No, I was born half blind as a bat, and nobody would let me get close enough to see anything up close.

    My vision is about 20/500 without glasses, meaning that if I should be able to see it from 500 feet, I have to be 20 feet away to see it. Very very blurry without glasses.

    I finally got glasses at age 8, and finally saw a clock at age 9. I had to teach myself how to read it though, but that was kinda easy once I could actually see the damn thing! 🕘

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    naw. the whole country shifting is dumber than the schools shifting. let the schools change their times.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And then the parent's employers have to shift their times SCHEDULES

    Its not the times that would change, it would be the schedules. Half the year you gotta arrive at school at 6am and the other half you gotta arrive at 7am. Then half the year the parents gotta arrive at work at 8am and the other half the year they gotta arrive at 9am.

    And it would be left upon the schools and businesses to explain all this shit to all the students/employees every time they change schedule.

    Believe me, the numbers would still be changing, it would just get way more confusing and difficult for everyone.

    Easier to change all the clocks and keep the schedules the same, so people get up around sunrise, rather than expect all the schedules to change...

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    Nah, oldschool ancient Roman nonlinear timekeeping actually makes more sense in this context. In their timekeeping, 6am was sunrise, and 6pm was sunset, no matter what time of the year.

    You wanna prevent people from getting sleep schedules messed up, let's go back to the old nonlinear timescales, where 6 and 6 are always sunrise and sunset.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    During winter months of the year, school children end up having to go out to their bus stops while it's still pitch black dark

    I had to do that as a kid. No one seemed to care.

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