Just shorten the work day, you capitalist pigs.
Also, China is one big time zone. How does that work? They all start school/work the same time? Or are there unofficial time zones where people shifted their day?
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE
WITHIN SINGLE ROTATION.
4 CORNER DAYS PROVES 1
DAY 1 GOD IS TAUGHT EVIL.
I erroneously measure time from one corner. I am striving to correct this.
There's a significant increase in heart attacks when clocks are adjusted forward since people get less sleep, so there's a human cost to it.
All of this is why its stupid. It barely affects most people, because, you know, clocks. Just stop moving it around basically randomly. But yeah, its a paper cut of mine that I like to gripe about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China#Regions_with_special_time_regulations
Regardless, Beijing Time users in Xinjiang usually schedule their daily activities two hours later than those who live in eastern China. As such, stores and offices in Xinjiang are commonly open from 10am to 7pm Beijing Time, which equals 8am to 5pm in Ürümqi Time.[16] This is known as the work/rest time in Xinjiang.[17]
In most areas of Xinjiang, the opening time of local authorities is additionally modified by shifting the morning session 30–60 minutes backward and the afternoon session 30 minutes forward to extend the lunch break for 60–90 minutes, so as to avoid the intense heat during noon time in the area during summer.[11]
Seems reasonable
Imagine basing your work schedule on the afternoon heat instead of what some bi-coastal elite slave-driver saw as the optimally efficient work schedule during a TED talk on sweatshops.
back when I was (even more) lib I remember reading The Economist, or some capitalist rag, about how setting your clock to Xinjiang Time was an act of defiance against the state and that people were punished for it. that turned out to be bullshit when I looked into it and was helpful in realizing how much I was being lied to all the time
Something like would never happen in the US. People are free to go about their day however they like, and definitely get to control their schedule and definitely not beholden to Jody at work, who puts the schedule out late Friday afternoon for Monday after I've already left and now I need to call into work just to figure out if I work tomorrow
imagining Arizona State Police battering down the door of an office because their clocks observe Daylight Savings Time
I spent a few weeks there, working on Beijing time, and I must admit. It was pretty nice. Waking up at 7, I could go for a morning jog with the sunrise. Then after work there would be another 5 hours of daylight. But it was confusing because if you asked anybody what time it was, they would tell you the local time. Nobody does official time there.
In Australia we have states in the same time zone with different times half the year because Queensland don’t do daylight savings lmao
Neither does Arizona and some Native American reservations. Honestly, getting rid of it would rule. It's outdated and only farmers are the ones that "benefit" from it.
I've been doing farm work for 15 years... I'm still trying to figure out how it "helps" me.
the chickens and cows like to wake up at 7am, EST. Humans depend on the sun, so its helpful to adjust them
scratches head
They are creatures of habit, to keep their routine, we have to do everything an hour earlier by the clock's time. So, the time change doesn't help us.
Maybe if we didn't have any animals on the farm it would be fine.
well... now... coughs awkwardly ... I'm... I'm just going to go over there points now.
How does that work?
it doesnt if you live in the west lol, they do all start very early in the morning for no real reason.
