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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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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
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(Score: 1) by sorpigal on Sunday April 07 2019, @11:23AM
It's useful to be able to track time intervals within a day "A 1 hour meeting starting at 11 ends at 12, so I can plan lunch for 12:15 and start my next activity by 13:00". Having these numbers linked to the position of the sun is not essential; if I changed my position on the planet, kept the same zone, and offset all the numbers by (say) 6, then I would have the same daylight as someone in Greenwich but I'd use different numbers. It would be weird at first but you'd quickly grow used to e.g. "noon" being at 06:00 on the clock. As a bonus coordinating with the London office would get easier because nobody would need to do date conversion math when setting up conference calls.
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Cue jokes about "one hour" meetings never actually lasting that little time.