With Daylight Savings once again coming up, it never fails for it to spark discussions about its purpose in modern times. People hate it widely while few seem to be okay with it and depending where you live, others don’t even know what the deal is.
Politicians have actually put it on the docket to be voted on, but seems to have lost traction. Quite frankly, this is an issue that should be done and over with. Just end it, but please end it when we have the clocks dialed back than forward, because I wouldn’t like time going faster than it already is.
Unpopular opinion: I like the concept of daylight savings: 😅
What’s written on a clock is entirely artificial, made by humans to use as needed in everyday life; It doesn’t matter what it shows, just that it shows the same for everyone
I think we should decide what we want it to mean (e.g. sunrise always at 07:00, middle of the day at 12:00, move the sunset based on concrete statistics that prove it would minimize energy consumption, or anything else we want), and implement it in small increments
In a world where 99% of clocks are digital (phones, smartwatches, computers), no one will care or notice if for 6 months every day they lose 42 seconds of sleep, and then for the next 6 months gain them back again; (computers that need a stable reference point usually use UTC anyway)
Heck, even without modern technology: Germany was broadcasting the time on a specific radio frequency with DCF77 like ~50 years ago, for synchronizing train station clocks, so today it should be more trivial than ever to make this change in the clocks and software that people use 🤔
For me it’s not the sudden switch of time that annoys me, but at what time sunset is. In winter I don’t care if its dark in the morning, but it really annoys me when it’s getting dark earlier. That one hour can mean the difference between comming home during light or not.
Ancient greeks had it better. For them, the hours changed in length with each season;
And so all days can keep the same number of hours without us doing things at unnatural times