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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't care whether we pick Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time or create a new timezone that splits the difference, but we should choose one and stick with it.

Part of the problem is that the timezone boundaries have been distorted out of their proper geographical shape by politics, so one or the other edge of each distorted timezone always has some desynchronization between wall-clock time and sun position. Which edge it is varies depending on whether ST or DST is currently in force.

Or, we could just completely decouple the wall clock from solar time and put everyone on UTC. It makes synchronizing long-distance travel and communications much easier, and if the clock happens to say "5:00PM" or "7:00AM" when the sun is high in the sky and you're eating lunch, what does that really matter? Unfortunately, there are some people who seem unable to accept that the number on the clock is arbitrary.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

China, as big as it is, has only one time zone lol.

I'm down with UTC, but make it 24 hours, not AM and PM. Because not everyone will have the same 'mid-day'.

Nah, let the computers do the things that they're good at, like calculating time differentials. And let people reference something real, like the sunrise and sunset. The whole daylight savings time vs. standard time is dumb, and political timezones are unfortunate, but any time system becomes meaningless when it becomes too decoupled from the way people actually experience time. I don't care when noon is in Europe, noon will always be roughly midday for me. I don't expect that's an unpopular opinion for anyone that spends any significant portion of their time outside.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't care what numbers the clock show I don't want to have to addapt to waking up one hour earlier or later than before. It messes with my internal clock and makes me not want to wake up or wake up too early for at least a month or two after each change.

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

In principle I agree. Changing so our clocks so a few people don't have to do seasonal hours is silly. The only problem with everyone using UTC is the days. Incrementing the day, or flipping the date in the middle of a workday is annoying. It's solvable, but just sticking to a time is good enough.

As long as a bunch of the world is changing their clocks one way while a bunch changes it another is done away with, conversion to UTC for coordination is simple.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

blablabla QuΓ©bec will change it when NY state change it, and Ontario will change it too the minute NY change it.

Provinces will never do a move by themselves.

Saskatchewan disagrees.

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have been living a life without timekeeping for almost 2 decades I threw out my watch when I retired.. If I have to make an appointment I let my phone keep track for me... I never know what time of day it is nor what day of the week or the month and it has never mattered even once... I eat when hungry and sleep when tired....

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

That sounds great

If I leave my body to its own devices I usually end up waking up with the sun, which is nice.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I hate being in a time zone where in winter, the sun comes 7:00 and sets at 16:00..

Most of us have 9-5 jobs. I'd rather have the sun up around 8 and still have some tiny sliver of light when i leave the office

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Go farther north and see what time zone works then. (Hint: none)

It's obvious your longitude isn't the issue: you may need a latitude adjustment!

You had me at the first paragraph. Sick punchline

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Supposedly waking up with the sun is healthier than waking up in the dark, but I agree with you, I basically never see the sun in winter so it defeats the purpose.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago

Same. Idgaf if the sun comes up well after I've started work, I want sun after work so I don't feel like an animal living in complete darkness.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Where I live it's dark when I go to work and dark when I come home. I don't give a flying fuck either way.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I'd like the world to agree on at least all changing time on the same day or none at all. So we can just remember the offset to everywhere else just once.

There will be people who prefer reasonably early sunrise to pleasantly late sunset, and we could shift office hours 1/2 hour or so to adapt for people on edge of time zones.

[–] fourish@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago

I want everyone who whines about a time change put on their own little island of people who can’t cope.

They can have whatever time they want away from people who are actually able to handle the very smallest of changes to their lives.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Daylght Savings time would be better for BC, having standard all year would mean sunrise just after 3am in summer.

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

As opposed to 4 am? Who cares at that point

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am also a fan of permanent DST as it would give more evening light in the winter, but would begrudgingly accept permanent standard time as it's still better than the clock-switching we do now

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Standard time is better for the health of the population, especially in teens. There's a ton of research on the subject.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But standard time gives different hours based on your lat/long position. Eastern has about 45 min later daylight, western has 45 min earlier sunrise. So one standard doesn't give all provinces the same daylight range, it is shifted

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eastern has about 45 min later daylight, western has 45 min earlier sunrise.

opposite

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean in Vancuver BC longest summer, official daylight is 5:05am, but twilight is 4:23am. Toronto daylight in longest summer day starts about 5:35 (twilight at 5am) The twilight here is super bright. East coast gets more daylight in winter I think

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The eastern part of a time zone has earlier sunrise/sunset than the western part of that same time zone. A little past Detroit would have Vancouver times.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe winter, but if you check longest Sumner day as a common point, Vancouver has earlier sunrise by 25-30 minutes, and earlier twilight by 40..compared to detroit. I have lived in both areas . It is also not just about the time zone positions laterally because the sun shadow is at an angle compared to longitude due to precession angle I assume. If you lookup sunshadow animations you will see what I mean.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because I want that hour after work not before I wake up

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

You get an hour after work? It's dark by 4:30ish most of the winter in Ontario

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

If we were on DST that would be 5:30ish.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or we could go with the standard time. The standard. Standards are neat. Do you like standards? Do they have a standard time?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yukon already went to Daylight time permanently, because Standard time was worse. In this case Standard meant without shift, not that it was THE best Standard

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You do realize it is an osculating wave of longer and shorter.. The absolute statements people make and the difference the 1 hour makes to a typical person often only last 1 month tops.

Like in the winter O yes I have an hour of sunlight before work, two weeks later as the days continue to get shorter, it is dark at the start of day and dark at the end of the work day.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Winter is a write off in BC, being a rainforest climate it is overcast blanket of cloud or raining for 90% of the winter months, sun doesn't show itself. But for summer we have especially early sunrise, and I would like that shifted to the evening when it is useful. (I realize is fluctuates but whether that is 3am sun or 5am sun, screw that put that at end of day)

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't care if it is permanent daylight time or permanent standard time just stop flipping the clock twice a year.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago