What do you think about Daylight Savings Time?

[trader/warrior]

Support it. Better to have daylight from 03:00 - 23:00 than the sun rising at 2 in the morning.

Never had any problems with the transition anyway.

 

[Mise]

Instead, let's all pretend it's four o'clock instead of three!

Well that's the point, everyone knows that when it's 4pm, the shops will still be open, but when it's 6pm, most of them will have shut already (well not in London so much, but in small towns and cities). If some people pretended it was 4pm but other people pretended it was 6pm, nobody would know what time the shops were supposed to shut.

 

[Camikaze]

It makes sense. If there wasn't daylight savings, sunrise in summer would be about 5am or something, and sunset closer to 7pm (sunset calculator tells me that the latest sunset would be is 7:11pm), which isn't really making the most of the sunlight. Makes sense to push that back an hour.

 

[dIZZyBlIZZy]

It makes sense. If there wasn't daylight savings, sunrise in summer would be about 5am or something, and sunset closer to 7pm (sunset calculator tells me that the latest sunset would be is 7:11pm), which isn't really making the most of the sunlight. Makes sense to push that back an hour.

I'll agree with that. And I also do not like the sun setting at 1700 in winter. If I had my way, we'd go permanent DST, but it's a little deal.

 

[LucyDuke]

Okay, I misread your post. Shops tend to be open much later in Americaland, and opening and closing times really aren't consistent. We get by just fine, using phones or internets to be sure of the hours when it's important. Nobody has to pretend differently from anyone else, we all pretend together and it's still stupid.

If we didn't screw around with this, it wouldn't be dark so damn clock-early in the winter. Sunrise would be clock-later too but who the hell cares about sunrise in winter anyway.

 

[Silurian]

But British Summer Time does not start until 25th March.

 

[warpus]

Let's PLEASE abolish DST and stop screwing around with the clock. Who do you think you are, God? Leave the goddamn time alone, and let's not have the sun go down at 4pm please

 

[trader/warrior]

If we didn't screw around with this, it wouldn't be dark so damn clock-early in the winter. Sunrise would be clock-later too but who the hell cares about sunrise in winter anyway.

Let's PLEASE abolish DST and stop screwing around with the clock. Who do you think you are, God? Leave the goddamn time alone, and let's not have the sun go down at 4pm please

Might be me who has it the wrong way around but doesn't that mean you want constant DST, or straight out shifting the timezone one hour?

 

[Mise]

Well the reason the sun sets at 4pm in the Winter is because we move away from DST/BST.

edit: x-post with trader/warrior. What I said was @warpus.

 

[Silurian]

Well the reason the sun sets at 4pm in the Winter is because we move away from DST/BST.

edit: x-post with trader/warrior. What I said was @warpus.

I think it has got something to do with the tilt of the planet.

 

[Winner]

Abolish, and keep it at non-DST. I see the advantages of DST, but it seems to me that if we're at the point where we can feel free to switch the clock around to suit ourselves, then we're equally capable of moving our timetables around- making the working day 10-6, etc.- to achieve the same ends, so we may as well keep the actual numbers consistent with the thing that they're nominally representative of.

I agree.

Plus, I hate when the time changes, it is an inconvenience that isn't really necessary in this day and age.

 

[mrt144]

I'll agree with that. And I also do not like the sun setting at 1700 in winter. If I had my way, we'd go permanent DST, but it's a little deal.

I agree with this.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[MjM]

It's dumb. Especially if you live somewhere where there is already a lot of natural sunlight. It just becomes an annoyance then.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

DST adjustments don't really affect me that much. I've adapted to them just as I have adapted to a climate with four seasons.

 

[Lillefix]

I support it. For the same reasons, as trader/warrior said. The sun would be up way to early in the summer. Personally, I think they could even add an hour, so that the middle of the night was 2 o'clock in stead of 1.

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

I like it getting Darker at Fall and Winter. That's about it. I'd hate to lose that, it is one of the staples I assign to Fall and Winter that make me like them better than Spring and Summer.

 

[warpus]

Might be me who has it the wrong way around but doesn't that mean you want constant DST, or straight out shifting the timezone one hour?

Well the reason the sun sets at 4pm in the Winter is because we move away from DST/BST.

edit: x-post with trader/warrior. What I said was @warpus.

Yeah whatever, let's stick with the current time forever. That's what I meant.

 

[LucyDuke]

Might be me who has it the wrong way around but doesn't that mean you want constant DST, or straight out shifting the timezone one hour?

Yes. When I say "abolish DST" I mean "stop constantly dicking around with the clocks". One permanent clock shift wouldn't bother me (if it were in the right direction!).

 

[azzaman333]

I like DST.