Obama might get rid of daylight saving time
from: Boing Boing
Excellent; I really hope this goes through. I can’t stand DST.
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2 Comments
Finally, something I agree with Obama on! Daylight Savings is worse than annoying. 50+ years of time changes, and I still can’t trick myself into thinking it’s an hour different than it really is. It seems so silly. I wonder why has it taken us so long to evaluate whether or not it is at all useful?
Yeah, my take on DST is it’s basically the modern equivalent of people trying to pretend the earth is flat.
Trying to adjust time to make it seem like the sun rises and sets when it’s “supposed to” instead of when it actually does just seems ridiculous to me; people just need to deal with the scientific fact of the tilt of the earth and how it revolves around the sun, and the resulting differences in daylight hours depending on where you live on the planet.
It’s not like people who live closer to the poles propose that their daytime hours should be stretched out and the nighttime ones compressed (and vice-versa) to “get around” the fact that sometimes they only have a few hours of one or the other per day.
When we went to Sweden, it was only dark for a couple hours every night, and I didn’t hear anyone whining about it, so those of us in more equatorial regions just need to suck it up.