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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, @11:08AM (1 child)
Nonsense. Once the clocks stop changing why would you slavishly stick to a clock time that makes no sense? Step 1: Adopt UTC as your zone. Step 2: Pick a local time in terms of daylight that it makes sense to open your business, find the related hour, and declare that as your open time. Who cares if the *clock* says 10AM or 4PM, or whatever? That's just a time passage tracking mechanism; it has nothing to do with the position of the sun.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday April 07 2019, @01:56PM
Social conformity. Conservative management who places value on presenteeism, seeing bright cleanly shaven faces in their desks with colorful neckties at 8am every day.
The old guard are retiring now, and the norms are changing to something that seems more rational to my (born in the 60s) generation now, but there are holdouts, younger management types who climbed the ladder by internalizing the values of their bosses. It seems especially hard to break the old norms with immigrant workers - they may not be able to speak/understand the language as well, some of them may struggle with the technical aspects of the work, but they all seem to highly value that which they can do as well as anyone: showing up on schedule.
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