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Comment by samuli | Hacker News Reader

You could try to ease into the new time by waking 5 mins earlier/later per previous morning, two weeks before the switch.

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Or we could stop pretending that playing with timezones somehow magically gives us more hours in the day.

It's like the shaggy dog story about a business consultant who was hired to improve efficiency at a port. "The first thing you need to do," he concluded, "is reschedule your tides."

If it makes sense to adjust our schedule according to the season, let's just do that, instead of shifting our clocks and pretending nothing's happened.

Hm. Have to get every employer in the land to switch at once. That's the challenge. Changing the clock does that handily.

Well, under the hoods of DST, every employer is changing their schedule (relative to the sidereal midnight) at once anyway, by agreeing to abide by DST and forwarding their clocks at once.

Then why not agree to change the office timings at once?

That's what laws are for.

It's less legislative work for them to do it this way (and more work for the programmer). What you want is less work for the programmer and more work for the legislator.

Not every employer has to switch at once. One company can switch, then their clients and contractors, and then /their/ clients and contractors, and so on and so forth. It's not too big of a deal if you're off by one hour vs other companies.

It's not about more hours in the day - it's about more hours in the pub garden in the evening. I'm all in favour of that.

I would go for morning pub gardens though--might that be a solution?

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