BC got rid of Daylight Savings(news.gov.bc.ca) |
BC got rid of Daylight Savings(news.gov.bc.ca) |
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Not sure why the title got changed for this post.
At least with perma-DST you at least get daylight once you leave work; with perma-Standard you don't get that either.
With pure standard time we would never have sunset before 5 pm but daylight savings puts half the year's 7 am before the sun has risen, and if you are an early riser as I have become, before the dawn breaks.
It also gives us four months where it's very hard to get children to sleep after 8 pm and for me it's even hard to start winding down.
I think summer time is really non-optimal for most purposes, changing the clocks sucks, and most individuals that work do so for too many hours a day. It's a local maximum in terms of how we socially manage time and people mistake optimising our society towards it to be optimising towards a global maximum.
Imagine if there was no DST and someone said "let's change every clock...", I would think it's a classic XY problem.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Peti...
Health research supports staying with standard time. Staying with daylight savings may be good for business, but businesses can adjust, while our bodies can't.
So, listen to your heart.”
https://bsky.app/profile/merriam-webster.com/post/3mgkh6eycs...
Context is king.
But the situation you describe is literally not physically possible where I currently live due to proximity to the equator and being west of the line of longitude our clock runs on during standard time, but DST demands we wake up in darkness.
How the workday in the modern economy is fundamentally unjust. You shouldn't have to sign away your ability to see the sun for a job (unless at extremely high latitudes or extreme weather conditions).
But yeah, you definitely need to drive home in the light instead of the dark for those two months out of the year or whatever. Definitely worth it.
No (not within a min or two). When days get shorter, it's not like they just lose daylight in the evening.
No, but
> wouldn't we need to adjust the clocks every day as days get shorter/longer
This is how hours used to work at least in Roman times, but I think also into the Medieval Ages.