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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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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:53PM (1 child)
The concept of "noon" made sense in the days when the primary source of light was the sun. It mattered to people when it was light, obviously. Noon was great because it was easy to define: when the shadows were shortest. Move the sundial to make that moment "noon", and there you go.
Now we have the artificial bullshit that is light bulbs. We can run our society independent of when the sun is in the sky. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take into account other things like sleep cycles, and accident rates, etc. But when the sun is at the top of the sky simply doesn't matter much anymore to most people, except to the astronomers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @09:15PM
Also having month before day made sense when you mostly had farmers, because a day was not that important. But now, it's just retarted.