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I’m about 3 minor inconveniences from going off the deep end on a good day
The worst part about daylight savings is that numerous States voted to abolish it, but the federal government stopped them. Their problem is that nobody can agree whether we should always have daylight savings time or never have it - it’s about a 50/50 split.
It’s infuriating - I don’t fucking care, just PICK ONE and stick with it you chalk eating assholes.
Now the clock display in my car will be an hour off until November. I have no desire to reset it.
No but seriously this is not necessarily abolish daylight savings time either make it permanent or standard permanent i have no strong opinions but stop the changing.
I occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the code base.
if people didn’t bang on about it i would not be able to tell when the clocks switch time, because digital stuff automatically changes and sleeping one hour more or less is well within margin of error for me.
Gets even more fun when you move to another country and are coordinating calls back home and realize different countries have different days they switch the clocks
And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.
The only real problem with daylight savings for me is this kind of thing, because they can’t be adjusted anticlockwise.
The fuck is that? Could be a very nice medieval torture device. Or a beautiful mechanical clock.
The grand sonnerie / westminster / grandfathe clock (2 or 3 barrels - mainsprings) with relative train wheels. The snail like feature in the middle is what tells the chime how to tell the time - with the mallets. two or three mallets. Setting the time anticlockwise undoes the sync between the time on the dial and the chime. Even worse in perpetual calendars like these, where the time must be synced with the 100-years worth of calculations done by the complications, a problem that happens even while letting it idle for too long, because you’d have to manually set date, year, decade, moonphase, and everything else. But i’m too poor to own one of them. Image
We just changed our clocks in BC for the last time ever
“3 minor inconveniences”
…plus or minus four.
*Worst day of the year so far.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My favourite fact about this topic is that there is a significant bump in car accidents twice a year due to day light saving change.
So we literally sacrifice a few lives here and there cause it used to benefit factories (not fully recalling the reason, I think it was for WWII)
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
The ‘mini jetlag effect’
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Always follow the money. Oil / petrol sales benefit from more light after work hours. It still benefits some big industries.
The majority of actual human beings do not want dst, and are clearly harmed by it. It’s still around because industry has found ways to profit off it and while you and I would do better without it, they will fight to prevent meaningful change.