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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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:54PM (5 children)
Permanent DST? Not bad. But I've found that ignoring the time altogether is even better. For a couple of months I've done an experiment whereby I've slept and woke when I felt like it. As a result I've counted two fewer "days" than what the calendar shows, insomnia is a thing of the past, I wake up feeling mostly alive rather than entirely zombie-like, and spend less time in bed overall. The only problem is that there is no correlation between my schedule and the outside world. (whatever, the outside world sucks anyway)
(Score: 2) by NPC-131072 on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:19PM (1 child)
Keep fighting brother. Time is a white supremacist construct. [thenewamerican.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:10PM
The whites will conquer you. Again. After all, it is their time.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:23PM (1 child)
I tried this a long time ago and noticed my body went on a 25 hr schedule. I would go to bed an hour later every night and sleep a normal 7 to 8 hrs. Was one of the most productive periods in my life.
(Score: 1) by sorpigal on Sunday April 07 2019, @11:11AM
Sounds like you would make a good Martian: the day is about 40 minutes longer there.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:28PM
I agree 100%. It seems intuitively obvious to me. And much of the employment I've held has had strict work schedules, even though there is no good reason to force me to be on a schedule. Moreover, studies have shown people to be way more productive, far fewer mistakes, and much happier and healthier when allowed to sleep and wake based on their body's needs.