“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”
“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”
The real answer is, the world should just run on UTC. No timezones. No confusion. When it says 12:00 UTC, it’s the same time everywhere on the planet, regardless of the sun being up or not.
This is only a good idea when you don’t think about it.
That’s like all my ideas. What’s that mean for me?
You’re a visionary and should be made CEO of major tech companies.
This is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve seen yet. Far, far worse than daylight savings time.
End the AM/PM stuff too!
Actually a decent part of the world uses 24h scheme, and it works fine.
While you’re at it, adopt a logic date format.
dd/mm/yyyy makes sense.
yyyy-mm-dd makes sense.
mm/dd/yyyy is an abomination
Digest that, and when you’re ready, we’ll talk about your backward units system…
They kind of do that in China. All parts of China officially use Beijing time, even though the easternmost part is an hour ahead and the westernmost part three hours behind. In Xinjiang, they mostly just ignore it and use local time.
Except when students have national scale exams. In Xinjiang, they start near the end of the night…
oh cool, so in 100 years we’ll all be using beijing time.
I think it would take a bit of getting used to, but I would not be opposed to this.
As opposed to taking a bit of getting used to twice per year at the beginning and end of DST?
I think it would be a bigger adjustment than that, yes. And, I imagine there would be on-going adjustments as some places/persons adjust their posted hours, either due to seasons changing the length of daylight or other reasons.
But, I do think it could be an improvement with planning to change and hour back or forth twice a year.
Not changing time is good when one travels a lot. If one does not travel much, one single time is hardly useful. However, there are merits to the idea.