It gets dark too soon

  • Guamer [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Reminder that 2 years ago getting rid of it unanimously passed the senate, but not the house, so we’re still stuck with it. It’s an excellent example to point to about how both parties never get anything actually beneficial done no matter how universally popular it is, but somehow manage to give trillions to Israel no problem. It’s something just about any American can wrap their head around.

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    Even the FARMERS hate it, even though it’s ostensibly for them.

    I recall reading a Reddit thread on /r/farming where they were all bitching about how fucking pointless and stupid it is, with one user commenting “My work day starts when the sun rises, and the sun doesn’t care what our fucking clocks say what time it is”

    Unlimited genocide on daylight savings time

    • People say it’s for farmers, but obviously that’s nonsense. The intention was to reduce energy use, by shifting things so when people get off work they spend more time outside instead of inside using energy.

      Also because the guy who came up with it wanted to spend more time catching bugs iirc.

      Also if it has any effect on energy use it’s unclear which direction and it’s less than 1% either way, which is not enough to justify the increased car accidents, heart attacks, etc. that happen every time we shift the clocks.

  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Seriously fuck this shit. Starting next week gonna be fucking dark out when i leave for work and dark out half an hour before I leave work. Super stoked to not have any waking hours during daylight to do what I want on weekdays for the next 4 months.

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        The problem is all summer I lie to myself and say it’s really not so bad except for like 6 weeks from the end of December till February then we change the clocks and I have to get blinded by giant fucking trucks for 45 minutes every night.

        This is a serious problem and not a petty personal grievance that’s an obvious consequence of living whre I chose to.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m with you, but I’m gonna be pedantic anyway: Daylight saving time is the summer time with more light in the evening. Standard time is the garbage one we’re about to switch back to where it gets dark super early.

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      Also that, but in any society there will probably be broad agreement about chronology (yes I know watch time came as a result of industrial revolution and the attitude we have now is very recent and so on and so forth) so we do risk creating a socialist utopia with daylight savings just as a result of when people meet each other. If everyone around you says it’s 6 pm then it’s 6 pm and if there’s cultural values tied to 6 pm, like “now it’s evening” then it’s the evening.

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    On the one hand, DST is annoying and disruptive. On the other hand, it no longer serves any practical purpose whatsoever.

    Really glad we still have to put up with this shit.

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      On the other hand, it no longer serves any practical purpose whatsoever.

      In a way this would be a positive. Or there’s a bright side. We can, as a society, all agree to do something completely pointless and stupid. Would be cool if we funnelled that energy towards something sillier. What if we all agreed that a certain tuesday just didn’t exist or something? I dunno, could be wacky, could be nice. Instead we have DST.

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    You have it backwards. Death to standard time. Daylight savings is during the summer. We’re about to go back to regular time.

    • m532 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      It’s the grey men from momo, stealing our time

      We’ll never get it back unless we raid their vault of stolen time

    • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      in theory yes, but in practice 6 pm would just become “morning time” for whoever lived where 6 pm occured in the morning. The way we think about time is in many ways a cultural construction. There’s linguists that write about this, it’s pretty interesting

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    Daylight savings time sucks because its noon is offset from solar noon, but I think most people think we’re going to daylight savings time when we’re actually exiting daylight savings time into standard time. Standard time is better because its noon is (mostly) synced with solar noon. And since we spend the majority of the year in daylight savings time, the noon that’s on our clocks doesn’t actually correspond to anything since the sun is at its highest at like 1pm. Real simulacrum hours.

    • People get confused because the names are absurd and backwards. How is it “Daylight Saving” when you move the daylight towards the evening? Thats Daylight Spending if anything. We’re putting it where we can use more of it! Daylight Saving would be shifting away from the evening.

      But also I don’t particularly care if clock noon matches solar noon. I don’t want to leave work in the dark, and it would be significantly easier to stay on DST year round than to force every business and employer to shift their hours forward so I don’t leave work in the dark.

      • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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        How is it “Daylight Saving” when you move the daylight towards the evening? Thats Daylight Spending if anything.

        Jerry Seinfeld, is that you?