DST was introduced by Nazi Germany from the false sense that it would save energy. It doesn't save energy and unless you live in Alaska, the sun doesn't stay up longer
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Daylight Saving Time
- Thread starter Loudninja
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It was acutally Emporer Wilhelm the 2nd 1916 in world war 1.
I'm pumped, an extra hour of daylight after work so I can go do shiet.
Let's just stick to DST period and not change the clocks anymore, please.
Let's just stick to DST period and not change the clocks anymore, please.
So it wasn't even something to help farmers in the 1700 or 1800s. People acting like it was around during the beginning of time. How did humanity ever enjoy the sun before 1916
Only during the war while Ben Franklin's idea was to conserve fucking light candles
I guess back then there was no "unified" time yet. I know in Germany there could be different times in different towns, probably derived from sundials. In 1893 this was changed and time was unified, mainly for train schedules to work properly.
I'm fed up with it, DST creates more problems than it solves for many of us. It might have made more sense when people worked outside more, or relied more on natural light. It's just too bad that we are kinda stuck with it because there's so much other stuff to worry about politically that things like this constantly get shoved to the back burner, making abolishment of it pain in the ass.
How much sunlight do you really need? If you live up north where summer is actually nice, the daylight hours are long anyway. Sunset times are probably already past 6 PM in most places on standard time.
We really need to end this shit and just pick the version that gives us more hours of daylight, lol.
It depends if you like waking up early or staying up late. That is why people keep arguing if standard time or daylight savings time is better.
#teamstandardtime
I like leaving my job and not being in pitch darkness. It makes swallowing the capitalism easier.
My team in the Netherlands hasn't done daylight savings yet so my morning meeting for the next couple weeks will be an hour later. It will be a nice transition for me.
I guess the problem is we have set schedules for work which we keep in defiance of the Earth, Sun, biology, and time itself.
Man, I love having more sun during the day and I love that the sun sets past 7pm from until the fall but like holy fuck, this shit fucking sucks. It's never really affected me until this year and I'm entirely thrown the fuck off by the simple time change. I know it'll take a week or so for me to get back to sleeping normally again but man, getting used to this change again sucks. However, it's a change I'm willing to have because I've been tired of it being dark way too fucking early in NYC for the last few months.
This shit hit harder than ever this year with two kids. Our youngest woke up at 6AM instead of the usual 7-8AM, and we ended up putting our oldest down a hour later cause he lost a hour.
I went to sleep alongside my wife instead of trying to get some gaming time in. I was defeated.
I went to sleep alongside my wife instead of trying to get some gaming time in. I was defeated.
Yeah, in Berlin the latest sunset in summer is near the end of June at around 21:30, with sunrise already at 04:44. That means it's often still light outside until about 22:00. That's a lot of sunshine hours. DST seems meaningless at that point.
But of course. Billionaires losing an hour of work from their
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that the hour we go backwards when DST ends isn't in the middle of a work day. They'd probably pass legislation not to pay us for that hour if it was the case.
That would mean you'd also have an extra hour of work in the fall
Keep that on the weekend and reward us all (in a world where I don't hate daylight savings).
I prefer DST (summer time) over standard (winter) time. I'm not a morning person (in fact, I resent how the world seems to revolve around morning people), and even when I do have to get up in the morning it's never before sun-up regardless of the time of year (I never have to be to work before 9 AM), so having extra daylight in the morning does nothing for me. However, it's a big deal for me to have extra daylight in the afternoons/evenings.
This is especially important to me in the winter where there's fewer daylight hours in general. When I got out of work yesterday at 6:30, there was still a fair amount of daylight left even by time I got home, as opposed to the previous week when the sun was already setting. When I'm out doing things, I'm most active during the afternoons and evenings, and I hate it when it's already dark out by 6 PM. Just nudging that back to 7 PM would be a lot better. I just don't like being out at night, plus it being already dark out so early in the winter isn't good for my mood. I like sunlight. When it's already dark out by time I leave work, I just want to go straight home. Also, when I was a kid I liked actually having a decent amount of daylight after getting home from school, and I'm sure kids today would appreciate that, too.
Of course, during the summer the fact that it's not completely dark out until a bit after 9 PM is amazing.
Both Georgia and South Carolina, as well as 14 other states, have passed laws that, were they to go into effect, would move us to permanent DST/summer time (other states are considering such laws as well). That means that next time we spring forward, it stays that way and we would never fall back in the autumn ever again. However, the Constitution explicitly enumerates the power to "fix the Standards of Weights and Measurements" (which includes measurement of time) as a power of Congress, meaning we would need a federal law passed allowing states to move to permanent DST. I hope that comes to pass, because I'd love for permanent DST to be the law around here.
This is especially important to me in the winter where there's fewer daylight hours in general. When I got out of work yesterday at 6:30, there was still a fair amount of daylight left even by time I got home, as opposed to the previous week when the sun was already setting. When I'm out doing things, I'm most active during the afternoons and evenings, and I hate it when it's already dark out by 6 PM. Just nudging that back to 7 PM would be a lot better. I just don't like being out at night, plus it being already dark out so early in the winter isn't good for my mood. I like sunlight. When it's already dark out by time I leave work, I just want to go straight home. Also, when I was a kid I liked actually having a decent amount of daylight after getting home from school, and I'm sure kids today would appreciate that, too.
Of course, during the summer the fact that it's not completely dark out until a bit after 9 PM is amazing.
Both Georgia and South Carolina, as well as 14 other states, have passed laws that, were they to go into effect, would move us to permanent DST/summer time (other states are considering such laws as well). That means that next time we spring forward, it stays that way and we would never fall back in the autumn ever again. However, the Constitution explicitly enumerates the power to "fix the Standards of Weights and Measurements" (which includes measurement of time) as a power of Congress, meaning we would need a federal law passed allowing states to move to permanent DST. I hope that comes to pass, because I'd love for permanent DST to be the law around here.