The past week, I have slept more hours, but have been more tired. It's always the same after "Daylight Saving [sic] Time" is imposed.
Just to prove how reasonable I am, I'll occasionally offer a compromise on something I feel strongly about.
Here's my compromise with supporters of DST (Government Wrong Time):
Stop changing the clocks for DST, but affirm and declare that any business that wishes to open and close an hour early, can- without penalty- so its employees can have an extra hour of daylight after work.
Who could possibly object?
It’s exactly the same as "observing" DST, without the lie of changing the clocks.
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If not, that’s OK.
Time, in terms of what a clock says, is just a RECORD-KEEPING CONVENTION.
ReplyDeleteAs far as our bodies and sleep cycles are concerned, it makes no difference whatsoever whether we call the times we get up, go to sleep, etc. "8am," "6pm" or "Great googly woogly o'clock."
If we're going to let the state exist (we shouldn't do that, but if we do), at the very least we should tell it to pick a damn time and stick to it. No hopping back and forth, no "zones," just (for example) UTC.
As I write this, it is 12:16 UTC. It's 12:16 UTC at my house, at your house, in Beijing, in Moscow, in DC, and in London. It's 12:16 everywhere on the planet.
What difference should it make to our lords and masters whether the business you or I work at opens at "9am Mountain Standard Time" versus "15:00 UTC?"
To me, the DST/non-DST thing is pretty much just a power play. It's like they're telling us to sit, stay, roll over, etc. for no reason other than that they believe they can tell us that and have us obey.
I agree... to a point. Labelling time is kind of essential when you work, and coordinate, with others who aren't physically right beside you. Government didn't come up with the idea that noon is 12:00pm. The Sun "dictates" that by when it is at its zenith (the same as nature dictates "if you- or someone- doesn't work, you don't eat").
DeleteStandard Time is already the compromise, but one that stays a lot closer to reality- to when the Sun is at its zenith at 12 noon.
Time zones are a Sun thing, too. The specific way they are drawn is a compromise to facilitate cooperation in scheduling.
Government believes it can change this by telling people to mis-set their clocks. This is a denial of circadian rhythms. too. DST is the Big Government position, over-ruling reality. UTC is extremely arbitrary and Governmental- but it would still make more sense than DST, which is just a lie.
"Government didn't come up with the idea that noon is 12:00pm."
DeleteWell, not government, but governMENTS -- specifically the rulers of medieval monasteries. The Romans fixed "noon" at what we now call 3pm, and the Catholic Church followed but around the 14th century monks found midday more convenient for purposes of mandated prayers.
Solar "noon" isn't a time-keeping convention, it's an astronomical observation.
Time zones aren't needed to facilitate scheduling -- quite the opposite in fact. If you and I want to hold, say, a Zoom meeting, and I specify that it occurs at 3pm, am I referring to 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 1pm Mountain Daylight Time, or what? But if I specify 2100 UTC, no need to figure out where everyone is and how to convert.
Going to UTC or something of the story wouldn't change circadian rhythms, work schedules, etc. A coffee shop might open at 1100 UTC on the East Coast and 1300 UTC in Denver, but so what? It's not like there's some kind of law of nature dictating that those two different times must be called "6am" in each place.
I'm guessing you are also a fan of RobWords.
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