I swear to god the only reason we have daylight savings is because some shmuck is making money off it
Solar noon is the only real noon
Submitted 4 weeks ago by lengau@midwest.social to [deleted]
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MoistOwlette@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Night shift workers living for that high when the clock rolls from 1:59 to 3:00
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
My company shorted everyone who worked daylight savings day an hour. We didn’t even work past 2am 😭🙏
Though we’re unionized so everyone who came to me got penalty pay 🙏
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Now this is a conspiracy I can get behind.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Most people seem to have a negative reaction to this, but I think we should all go UTC. Timezones are for suckers. My schedule at work is 4"pm" to 12"am," dinner is about 2, and sundown is currently about 3am.
feannag@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Except when you have to work with people geographically separated. Trying to figure out when their work hours are UTC, and when yours are, so as to line it up. Boom, you’ve reinvented timezones by a different name.
Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
No? UTC by definition doesn’t know time zones.
Let’s say the European goes to work at 8 o’clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o’clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren’t needed here.
Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.
lengau@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
My company is fully remote. We use the working hours that people set on their calendar, because even people in the same time zone may not have the same working hours. My working hours start 30 minutes later than someone one timezone to my west.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
UTC but 12 hour time? That doesn’t make any sense
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Then let me extol the virtues benefits of going back to a base12 standard.
lengau@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
You and I are in full agreement.
jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Someone please ELI5 Daylight Savings for me? I simply can’t wrap my head around it no matter how many times I try to read any explanation about it. I don’t even know if my own region follows it (probably not given I would’ve understood it otherwise).
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
We add an hour or take away an hour from the time so that we can have more sunlight at certain times of the year
null@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
All this time I was wondering what black sorcery DST was performing to magically “add more sunlight” when it was simply the matter of setting the clock 1hr early.
I would rather go with having separate schedules for winter and summer for everything; even thinking about adopting DST is nauseating for me. I enjoy having a uniform time scale independent from external environmental factors.
Thank you very much for sharing this link.
bigb@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Daylight savings time moves the clock to match sunrise and the time we wake up.
I live in the northern hemisphere and the days are shorter in the winter. The sunrise is 8 a.m. on the shortest day (December 21), while sunrise on the longest day (June 21) is 5:45 a.m.
If I’m a farmer and I get up for my chores at 5 a.m. everyday, it’s nice and sunny in the warmer months. By the time it’s October, I wake up well before the sun so I might as well wait another hour. Lots of people had the same idea. Eventually everyone agreed on a day, called it daylight savings time and figured moving the clocks by one hour was simple enough.
But now it’s the 21st century, we have atomic clocks and most people live in the city but it’s hard to break tradition.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Per the Wikipedia article:
It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.[38][39][40] In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was first implemented.[38][39][40] The factors that influence farming schedules, such as morning dew and dairy cattle’s readiness to be milked, are ultimately dictated by the sun, so the clock change introduces unnecessary challenges.[38][40][41]
TL:DR for the rest of the history and rationale: Most of this was rich people wanting more time for their personal hobbies, other people’s sleep and health be damned.
Eczpurt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All my space cowboy duels are held at solar noon
hopesdead@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Jokes on them. I didn’t hear my alarm today.
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Here’s an idea:
Let’s make all clocks where no matter what time of the year it is, 6am is always when the sun rises, noon is when the sun is exactly overhead, and 6pm is always when the sun sets.
Sure, the length of an ‘hour’ would be constantly changing, yeah that wouldn’t get super confusing real quick… /s
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
That’s more or less how it worked in premodern times. You didn’t start at midnight but devided the day into 12 hours, starting with the first hour at sun rise and the 12th at sun set. For (ancient) Rome, their hours were like 45min to 1:15h which isn’t too much a difference when you think about it. Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.
Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Time to nerd this shit! 🥸
There were several counting systems:
In the times before the light bulb work could only be done during the day. Candles made from beewax were too expensive for the peasants. If they used candles instead of kindling they were made from tallow and created a lot of smut and didn’t gave much light. That made them a bit unpopular. I wonder why? 👤
At least in my country work days were divided in morning, midday, afternoon and night. You worked your field during the morning, went to market at midday, did handyman work and chores during afternoon and slept during night time.
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
xkcd.com/2050/
TheGreyGhost@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
There really is an xkcd for everything.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Cries in programmer while looking at northern Sweden