I’m about 3 minor inconveniences from going off the deep end on a good day
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if people didn’t bang on about it i would not be able to tell when the clocks switch time, because digital stuff automatically changes and sleeping one hour more or less is well within margin of error for me.
The worst part about daylight savings is that numerous States voted to abolish it, but the federal government stopped them. Their problem is that nobody can agree whether we should always have daylight savings time or never have it - it’s about a 50/50 split.
It’s infuriating - I don’t fucking care, just PICK ONE and stick with it you chalk eating assholes.
I’m a software developer and occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the codebase.
My favourite fact about this topic is that there is a significant bump in car accidents twice a year due to day light saving change.
So we literally sacrifice a few lives here and there cause it used to benefit factories (not fully recalling the reason, I think it was for WWII)
The ‘mini jetlag effect’
Always follow the money. Oil / petrol sales benefit from more light after work hours. It still benefits some big industries.
The majority of actual human beings do not want dst, and are clearly harmed by it. It’s still around because industry has found ways to profit off it and while you and I would do better without it, they will fight to prevent meaningful change.
Now the clock display in my car will be an hour off until November. I have no desire to reset it.
No but seriously this is not necessarily abolish daylight savings time either make it permanent or standard permanent i have no strong opinions but stop the changing.
is this some sort of daylight savings joke im too queensland to understand
Yeah. Most of the US just lost an hour this weekend. I’m struggling and expect to be struggling for the next few days.
Oh come on now the rest of your country is even more a disaster on this front than the USA is. And don’t you guys have some half hour time zone differences too?
Cheers to Queensland, British Columbia, and a portion of Arizona for being sane on time.
don’t you guys have some half hour time zone differences too?
Not only do some timezones have a 30-minute offset, but some small areas in Australia have a 45-minute offset and use UTC+08:45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08:45
It was light in the morning last week. Now it’s dark again… 😭
Gets even more fun when you move to another country and are coordinating calls back home and realize different countries have different days they switch the clocks
And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.
*Worst day of the year so far.
The only real problem with daylight savings for me is this kind of thing, because they can’t be adjusted anticlockwise.
The fuck is that? Could be a very nice medieval torture device. Or a beautiful mechanical clock.
The grand sonnerie / westminster / grandfathe clock (2 or 3 barrels - mainsprings) with relative train wheels. The snail like feature in the middle is what tells the chime how to tell the time - with the mallets. two or three mallets. Setting the time anticlockwise undoes the sync between the time on the dial and the chime. Even worse in perpetual calendars like these, where the time must be synced with the 100-years worth of calculations done by the complications, a problem that happens even while letting it idle for too long, because you’d have to manually set date, year, decade, moonphase, and everything else. But i’m too poor to own one of them.
We just changed our clocks in BC for the last time ever
“3 minor inconveniences”
…plus or minus four.
