No, because I like doing things outside in the summer after 6:30pm.
You like doing things outside in the summer when the sun is at a certain point.
You can do that regardless of whether that point is called 5:30pm, 6:30pm, or 7:30pm....
Daylight savings time is only useful in a reduced range of latitudes, I grant that. But where it makes sense, it is way worth one hour of sleep once a year.
If enough people in a country want to do things "when the sun is at a certain point" and that point coincides with a working hour, they can move the 9-5 to 8-4 or whatever.
Coordination does not have to correspond to renaming the hours...
I'm starting to think that 30 minute off time zone offsets are the way to go.
when people talk about renumbering the hours of the day, they are really talking about recoordinating the hours that everyone else expects to interact with each other. changing the numbers themselves is just a hack to shift everyone's schedule at once. it's easier to shift 9am to 8am than it is to get every business to change their posted hours.
> All the processes happening in our bodies are co-ordinated by our biological clocks, located in our brains and all other organs. The argument in favour of permanent DST is that there would be more light in the evening. While this is true, we can’t change the number of hours of light in the day. More evening light means less morning light. But importantly, it’s the light in the morning that is most important in resetting our biological clocks. [...] The problem is that we live in societies that force us to get up and go to work or school at times that we don’t get to choose.
> Chronobiologists, the name given to scientists who study biological timing, call this situation “social jet lag,” when the body clock doesn’t match the social clock.
The article is based on physiology and health effects.
Yes, we could leave the clocks alone, and change the clock times at which we do things.
We could have businesses open at, say, 9 AM in the winter and 8 AM in the summer. We could have schools start an hour earlier in the summer.
People tend to want to arrange their sleep schedule so that they pretty much just prepare for work and/or school after waking and then leave, so that their non-work time is all after work. That way they get their non-work time in one block, instead of split into two smaller blocks with work in between.
That means we'd be changing our wake up times by an hour in the summer to accommodated business/school opening hours. (Which means those who rely on alarm clocks to wake on time would be changing their alarm time...so much for escaping fiddling with clocks!).
Much of what we do is tied to our sleep or work schedules, such as when we get hungry and when we need transit.
So...we end up with pretty much everything that operates on a regular schedule having a separate winter and summer schedule. Every place we print schedules has to have two schedules that get swapped between summer and winter. Every place that has an alarm or an alert tied to work or sleep needs to have alarm times swapped between summer and winter.
Dealing with all that will involve making more changes twice a year--some to things that can be a hassle to change like signage.
Or we can just change the clocks--which are designed to be easy to change, and nowadays most of them can even do it automatically.
Which part of this mess is "designed to be easy to change"??
1) two hours of time which use the same time notation (think about trains and flights arriving at those times), and
2) one hour which doesn't exist, leading to e.g. time interval between 1am and 3am being 1 hour.
In the evening you can enjoy that hour and be less depressed.
Personally, my day is so much better when I wake up to the sun vs to cloud/fog/darkness. I just wake up happier, and I have no control over the sun.
So no I wouldn’t agree to trade my happiness throughout the day in exchange for eating dinner outside or whatever else people claim they need sunlight for at night.
In fact, working from home means that I do not go out at all after the sun has set.