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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: 2) by Codesmith on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:28PM (3 children)
Why not have every locale use local solar time?
Seriously, with the prevalence of computing devices (and smartphones) we could easily allow every location to have their own solar noon.
Pro utilitate hominum.
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Saturday April 06 2019, @08:04PM (1 child)
I'm fairly certain people don't actually care about where the sun is at noon, but rather where it is when they start or end work.
The problem then becomes everyone not starting and ending work at the same time anyway.
I propose that there is no solution to what timezone to use as long as everyone has a different schedule they have/want to keep.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:14AM
Before time zones, 12 Noon as when the sun reached it peak, Some towns has a small connon fire at noon, by using a magitfier and placing it correctly over the fuse / black power.
This method worked well until, the railroad came town. Yup, the railroad. Using single tracks between towns means both ends need to know that a train is schedule. If each town had a different clock east and west, there was no safe way to determie the tracks were clear. Also cost a lot of of local schedules. :)
The railroad got together in Chicago to settle on time zones to sequencize the clocks. Made running a railroad cheaper.
Now it is say that good old Ben Franklin also proposed daylight saving time. But agian this before time zones, it would have just changed when 12 noon was locally giving more "usable" hours.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday April 08 2019, @02:23PM
So your laptop and router have built-in GPS or cellular receivers? Because personally I still have TONS of computing devices which have no method to get their current location accurately enough for that. And I don't particularly want them to either...
There's also the issue of making having some kind of computer mandatory for just knowing the time in a nearby city. That's downright absurd.