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martyb
on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:11PM
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill establishing permanent Daylight Saving Time in the state, and the Governor has signaled she supports the effort. If it passes the House (and possibly the US Congress, it is a bit ambiguous to me), it could end the semi-annual resetting of clocks which causes so much annoyance and increase of injury and deaths.
Personally speaking, I'd rather it settled on permanent Standard time than Daylight time, but as long as it is steady I think it's better than the current regime.
See also:
Texas efforts: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/05/1413228
Europe's efforts: http://fortune.com/2019/03/26/european-union-parliament-daylight-saving-time/
Mandatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1268/
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday April 06 2019, @10:53PM
Funny thing: our company has "summer hours" to accommodate time off with family when the kids are out of school. The theory goes: you work 9x4 + 4, so half-day on Fridays in the summer - and it sort of takes advantage of the longer summer days, too.
In practice, the exempts often work from home anyway, and the whole concept of 40 per week is a pretty loose thing - if every moment spent on company endeavors were accounted for, some weeks run 60+. If every coffee break, offsite lunch, social meeting, and water-cooler break were accounted for, most weeks run 25-, especially among those who do not work from home most of the time.
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