When I read articles about how DST is having all these deleterious effects (either from making the change or from sticking with DST year round) I think it shows a mich deeper sickness with our society.
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When I read articles about how DST is having all these deleterious effects (either from making the change or from sticking with DST year round) I think it shows a mich deeper sickness with our society. We fight over what specific numerals should be on our clocks, which digits are healthier for us, but it seems that living our lives entirely beholden to mechanical time is the problem. It's literally killing us, but to live otherwise has become inconceivable to us.
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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When I read articles about how DST is having all these deleterious effects (either from making the change or from sticking with DST year round) I think it shows a mich deeper sickness with our society. We fight over what specific numerals should be on our clocks, which digits are healthier for us, but it seems that living our lives entirely beholden to mechanical time is the problem. It's literally killing us, but to live otherwise has become inconceivable to us.
If, for example, you like long summer evenings. There's nothing stopping you from just staying up later and sleeping in the next morning. If you think "my workplace would never let me shift my schedule by an hour!" then maybe reflect on that, and why we consider that reasonable and normal.
(also, if you live somewhere with DST, they already *require* you to shift your schedule and then pretend that you haven't. That's what DST is.)
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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When I read articles about how DST is having all these deleterious effects (either from making the change or from sticking with DST year round) I think it shows a mich deeper sickness with our society. We fight over what specific numerals should be on our clocks, which digits are healthier for us, but it seems that living our lives entirely beholden to mechanical time is the problem. It's literally killing us, but to live otherwise has become inconceivable to us.
@integral_toast to appease everyone why not just change the clock by half an hour and leave it there, no major change of daylight for us to live in.
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If, for example, you like long summer evenings. There's nothing stopping you from just staying up later and sleeping in the next morning. If you think "my workplace would never let me shift my schedule by an hour!" then maybe reflect on that, and why we consider that reasonable and normal.
(also, if you live somewhere with DST, they already *require* you to shift your schedule and then pretend that you haven't. That's what DST is.)
@integral_toast Yep. I wouldn't have had a problem with the permanent daylight time proposal here in Alberta a few years back, if there had been serious talk about shifting school hours & other schedules to reflect all the evidence that it is unhealthy, & negatively impacts learning outcomes, to force people (teens especially) to start their day well before sunrise.
Heck, I would 100% advocate for all of Canada standardizing our clocks on the same time (either central daylight or central standard) if I thought there was a chance of Canadian society actually accepting that it's OK to not start office hours until 11 or noon (if winter sunrise isn't until an hour before that where you are), and it's OK for evening activities to wrap up & most people to go to bed at 7 or 8pm (if that's well past sunset & the next day will start at 4 or 5am).
It's not outrageous. They do it elsewhere. Spain and Poland have clocks on the same time zone (with DST switches
), but they don't sit down to lunch at the same time.
