xkcd #3272: Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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[+] 85 points 3 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know... that sort of thing might not make billionaires even wealthier.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Dumb. Much better idea is to split the daylight into 12 equal chunks and the night into 12 equal chunks so we have 24 hours a day 12 of which are light and 12 of which are dark.

    It's so simple. We just got to change the definition of an hour everyday.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    An 8 h work day during the winter flies by, but the lunch hour is only long enough for one bite sandwich. On the other hand, 12 h of night is plenty enough for all my hobbies.

    In the summer, work devours your entire life and there’s hardly any time to sleep.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Just normalize 4h work days :D

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They used to do this. Hours were divisions of the day, like slices of a pie, rather than a specific length of time.

    Using equal hours, and dividing them into minutes, was something only astronomers did to help with their calculations.

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