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Nice! I don't really care if we end up on daylight savings or not, just stop this time change madness finally please!

If you read the article it's the worst of both worlds: Keep clock time the same but start work and school 30 minutes later?

Shouldn't we just get up when the sun comes up? And if you can't see the sun, everyone can stay home.

No thanks. That's like 5:30am in the summer. I need my beauty sleep.

You can go to sleep with the sun still up. Getting up in the dark is a lot harder than going to sleep when there's light.

Not much use at 60 degrees and more away from the equator.

Sunrise today was 07:31, sunset will be at 16:32 here.

On 22nd December it will be 09:17 and 15:16.

This is the only reasonable and measured take.

(Unfortunately, it always gets derailed by highly-polarized discussions about whether to stay on DST forever or get rid of it forever. They'll be showing up here again soon enough.)

It is a reasonable take but it is not the _only_ one - I think it is arguably more reasonable to transition away from DST to ordinary "best TZ granularity approximation to zenith-occurs-at-noon" time once, and then stay (and manage) that time over the millenia to come.

I like this idea. I like it quite a lot.

But can we... uh... can we keep that as some kind of tertiary issue to solve later after we successfully stop screwing up the clocks twice every year? We don't really need to build a singular omnibus clock overhaul that will most assuredly never come to fruition, do we? :)

Swatch Beat time.

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