People really like to complain that Standard Time is the reason that it's dark when they leave for work and dark when they come home instead of the fact that they're just AT WORK the entire time the sun is out.
How about we change the work schedule instead of the way we measure time you dipshits?
tried typing out a bunch of different comments but it always comes back to this: it's Fuck and i don't like it
However you define a work schedule, it's generally true that most people tend to go out and do things in the evenings, not the mornings. I'd prefer to do things in the sun rather than the darkness, fuck me right?
I'd also posit just saying "change the work schedule for everybody" when most of us live in countries with completely neutered left movements is not functionally different from supporting the status quo. While changing work schedules is a good goal most of us don't have the power to effectively do that right now because the left has been systematically dismantled for decades. Work schedules aren't on the table right now, DST is.
Yeah, tell'em, Nancy.
These wacky pinkos and their pie in the sky nonsense, eh?
Noon is noon in your time zone.
Noon is really noon at noon UTC.
The real chad play is converting the world to uniform, monotonically incrementing time via atomic clock. Somewhere the sun will rise and set at every minute of the day. If you wanna see it, follow its schedule.
ok but if say you went to the park with friends there is no transaction taking place. Hanging out with friends is free
Also: the dark is cool. Lights at night are cool. Doing stuff when it's dark out is cool
If you don't like the dark you're a loser nerd
3 day weekend is the true answer. Maybe with an 8-3pm work time. we're daytime animals, we can't really fight that. these demands are probably also unreasonable, some places may need to be open all the time to produce enough of the items we do need to survive.
plus it gets darker because the sun tilts, which can't be helped depending where you are. DST just makes it worse and depresses us northerners/southerners even more.
night person here and i prefer standard, it means 'night' comes faster, it gets dark at 4pm and everyone else in the house fucks off to their evening routine so i can go fuck off to mine.
There are far fewer timekeeping authorities than there are businesses with hours, so it is easier to coordinate changing the clocks than to coordinate all businesses changing hours. These accomplish literally the same thing unless you have a knee-jerk reaction against change.
And whatever noon is where you live isn't solar noon anyway.
All it would take would be one section in a reconciliation package saying that full time is 32 hours a week. It just takes the political organization to fight for it.
i hate to break it to you, but a lot of people have to work at night
imagining the galley slaves from Ben Hur complaining about drum technology
I'm cool with it, ngl.
Changing the work schedule on a society-wide level just isn't going to happen in any reasonable timeframe, so I'll take these meager breadcrumbs as opposed to nothing at all.
I've been on a lifelong bender against daylight savings and the existence of the penny, and damnit I still am, especially as a communist, fuck those things
Bit idea: communist who wants to live in a moneyless society but just for pennies
No wait, ONLY pennies, that way wealth accumulation is really really inconvienient
I've been doing that for several years now. I probably have brain damage, which explains a lot actually.
For some reason I get like opposite seasonal affective disorder and get depressed by too much sunlight. Darkness and grey cloudy skies really calm my anxiety and just make me feel more at peace in general. Sucks to lose an hour of darkness in the winter. I wish I could move to a really high latitude place with lots of rain/snow, but I'll probably be stuck in this desert for the rest of my life.
