I did this one year. It was better. It just feels like normal time. I don’t actually remember it being a problem at all and my morning/evening was better.
Ok but hes actually got it backwards. Standard time is those four months in winter, and we use daylight savings time during the summer.
I’ve never heard anyone who likes DST… this thread confirms my bias. Arizona has it right. We have internet now, no need to change clocks, just update your schedules for the season.
I would go one step further, just get rid of timezone completely and just get up at different times depending on where you are on the planet.
My dad did that one year lol. Refused to change his clocks or personal routine. Dunno if he was able to stick with it or not — but it was funny to hear him talk so seriously about why he “refuses to abide by such an arbitrary concept that makes his life harder, by having to adjust his body’s schedule”
His face had such a straight up “nope, fuck all that” look about it, it cracked me up lmao
The amount of times I’ve heard someone say ‘its for the farmers’ as if farmers have ever given a fuck what the clock says.
I think it’s for us postal workers, so we can sleep in for an hour right before pre-Black Friday and Black Friday and Black Friday Returns and Christmas and Christmas Returns. And then when we’re finally done with Valentine’s Card season we pay it back right before Tax Return season
If it’s only four months then he doesn’t care about standard time, we are actually on daylight savings time for the majority of the year.
Which is pretty wild when you think about it. The darkest, coldest, most depressing time if the year we let the sun set super early.
I don’t care which is used, so long as it sticks to one
most depressing time
For some of us summer is the most depressing time of the year js
It’s for big candy big bbq to have more daylight to sell more candy and bbq before the sun goes down
He’s not a slave to big chronometer.
Some people willingly handcuff themselves to one.
Isn’t daylight savings time 8 months of the year? The four “winter” months are when we’re on standard time, so seems like it would be pretty easy to ignore DST during those 4 months. Or maybe I am misinterpreting?
For some people who can’t be fucked to care about it (like me, and the person in the original post) it’s the changing of the clocks we call daylight saving(s) time, not a particular time zone designation or whatever.
“Don’t forget, it’s daylight savings time this weekend”… “not again! which way do I move my clock?”
We don’t care about the details and we don’t care what it’s acktually called, we just want to never do it again. Pick a time and stick with it.
I work for a Chinese company and my colleagues treat daylight savings time as an inexplicable religious ritual that they indulgently accommodate us ptimitives iin.
It is a ridiculous thing, but it doesn’t strike them as odd that their own country has just one timezone despite being wider than the USA?
I’d be happy if the whole planet had the same timezone. Just adjust your personal life to global time, rather than expecting time to adjust to anyone’s work/school timetable.
As a programmer I would love that. But as a person it does make more sense to go “it’s 4am in California, that person is probably sleeping” than “it’s 11am, what is the sun situation like in California rn?”
Considering that there are quite a few people with unusual sleep and/or work schedules that doesn’t help nearly as much as you would think.
The best counter point I’ve heard for it is that a date change would happen in the middle of the work day for half the world. That does sound tough to deal with
I feel the same as a programmer. Also time zones.
I would totally agree if Beijing didn’t force the rest of China to use their time zone, lol. Noon in Western China is nuts to experience.
When working with a flexible schedule I do this too. Having your own timezone can be convinient.
This is the level of not giving a damn I want to reach.
Respect! Guy’s got his own time zone.
I kind of do the same. I work 6:30am to 2:30pm for most of the year, but do 5:30am to 1:30pm during daylight savings time. It’s nice to see the sun for a little bit after work.
