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Daylight savings (discuss.tchncs.de)
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I have to rethink my priorities I guess.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Adjusting school and work hours should definitely be considered - so there would be no reason at all for daylight saving time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

    It should be considered long before you consider changing the clock so that noon isn't at noon.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    You've spent almost 3/4 of your life with solar noon occurring sometime between 12:30pm and 1:30pm. We only use "standard time" for a little over 1/4 of the year.

    Why are you suddenly demanding that noon be moved forward an hour for 3/4 of the year? Why cant we keep it where it normally is, but year round? Why do we have to move it for winter?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You’ve spent almost 3/4 of your life with solar noon occurring sometime between 12:30pm and 1:30pm.

    Maybe I have, maybe I haven't. You don't know where I live and where I have lived.

    We only use “standard time” for a little over 1/4 of the year.

    Do you? That's stupid.

    Why are you suddenly demanding that noon be moved forward an hour

    You can't move noon. What I'm suggesting is that 12pm should be as close to noon as possible.

    And there's nothing sudden about my demands.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Do you? That's stupid.

    It is, indeed, stupid that we use standard time at all.

    The first people to start working in my area are landscapers and construction. They want to start as early as possible, so they can clock out before the heat of the afternoon.

    Unfortunately, all the noise ordinances have been established with DST in effect. They can arrive on site, but they can't start working until 7 or 8 AM. This is to ensure the entire neighborhood isn't woken up at some ridiculously early time on the clock. They would start at, or before sunrise if they could. It's just safer to work strenuous jobs in the cooler morning hours than the heat of the day.

    Standard Time needlessly pushes them back another hour into the day.

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