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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 urza9814 on Monday April 08 2019, @01:19PM
That would require variable length time increments. A day is not exactly 24 hours, and it is not the exact same length all year round. It would also require eliminating timezones, and make things like keeping clocks in sync pretty difficult (which would REALLY screw with crypto), so we'd basically have to use UTC for everything internally and then auto-update the offset based on GPS coordinates, assuming the device has a GPS receiver...and without GPS or at least cellular radios to set the location your clocks would basically never be correct....and if you drove a hundred miles east or west you'd have to reset your clocks...that sounds *awful*. We're trying to get rid of arbitrary time changes here, not add infinitely more of them!
It would be a hell of a lot easier to just flip the whole world to UTC and forget about this whole obsession of syncing clocks with orbits....does it REALLY matter if you work 9-17 or 23-7 if the difference is just the numbers on the clock?