A nice rundown of life without DST
I don't need sunrise before 5:00 am!
-jk
A nice rundown of life without DST
I don't need sunrise before 5:00 am!
-jk
8:30am sunrise in January!!! Wanker that. Getting up in the dark is way, way, way more depressing than driving home from work in the dark. Plus - school children waiting for the school bus in the dark? Nope.
I can't imagine it happening anytime soon, but, I think UTC is the answer.
I'm gonna guess your morning routing does not involve dragging teenagers out of bed. Either way, the safety aspects of having elementary school-aged children waiting in the dark for the school bus makes a complete switch to DST impractical. And all of that is before we mention those with religious practices determined by the sun.
In our corner of paradise, we drag our teenagers out of bed at 6AM. And DST has been pushed later in the fall, and starts earlier in the spring, that we're almost there anyway. In the rust belt, there will always be some point in the year when kids will be waiting in the dark in the morning - that's what streetlights are for!
I think I'd like to try year-round DST and see if it would be better than the current system. Abolishing DST would be even worse. There would be a splurge of adding lights (and lots of NIMBY arguments) to fields and ballparks for baseball, lax, soccer, softball, etc. Coaches would have to be bailing out of work at 2 or 3PM for games / practices before it got dark; it was hard enough for me as it was.
"Quality is not an option!"
First of all, you switch to the 24 hour clock. 2 o'clock is 2 o'clock. What that means to you depends on where you live. It wouldn't necessarily be in the middle of the night. If it were near sunrise (at least part of the year), then you would come to associate 2 o'clock with time to get up. We didn't have clocks until the 1300s - prior to that, people did try to measure time intervals, but our concept of "what time is it" didn't really exist. Granted we need some kind of common time keeping in our global economy, but we could divorce our notion of what time is it from where is the sun if we tried and it would solve many of the problems associated with switching from one time zone to another. Alas, it would also take some of the fun out of New Year's Eve.
In my world, it’s always Hammer time.
Eagles came to Indy last night and I caught the show. Vince Gill was a good addition.