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  • 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 🤔