Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

[Nick Thompson]

Owen,

 

Why not simply refuse to change your clocks.    Don’t change when you get up and go to bed, eat breakfast, etc.   When you make an appointment to meet somebody, just bear in mind that they are in a different time “zone” from you.    In the fall, for instance, you “remain” in Santa Fe, and allow that everybody else has “moved” to San Francisco.  Well, except for your friends in Boston who have moved to Chicago.     If you want to meet with us, you have to be aware that we are living in a different time zone, but you don’t have to change your clocks.  It works beautifully in the fall because if you forget, you arrive an hour early to things.  Think of it, you would actually arrive at the beginning of FRIAM.   For me, as a person who is always late to stuff, it’s a great reprieve from embarrassment and humiliation. 

 

Now I am being a bit facetious because I have tried to do it for years and it does not work.  But I am not sure why it doesn’t work.  Evidently the force of social synchrony is so great one would rather go to the trouble to clock shift than to listen to Morning Edition after eating breakfast, instead of during. 

 

What would your fancy clock do.  I suppose it could say, “Good-Morning-Mr.-Densmore-We-regret-to-tell-you-that-your-noon-appointment-has-moved-to-San-Francisco-and-will-be-an-hour-late-for-his-appointment.”    And”The evening news is regrettably delayed an hour this evening.  ETC.” 

 

N

 

 

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:50 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

 

I think I confused folks: the reference to europe's DSL change being 2 weeks after USA was just an example.  Steve Smith: thanks for making me recall the north/south difference as well.

 

I just gotta think we have to

- Change times at the same date universally

- Just stick with standard time

- Build fascinating clocks that Deal With It

 

But man, my sleep cycle is a bitch to maintain through all this!  Sigh.

 

   -- Owen

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[Carl Tollander]

So everyone would have a little bit string (updated incessantly) that identified How You Relate To Time.   There could be some ancillary info: "Best met when shadows are long" and so forth.   We could go back to the "hour of the tiger" way of talking about time.    This would open up whole new frontiers in scheduling apps.

On 3/20/13 9:32 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

Owen,

 

Why not simply refuse to change your clocks.    Don’t change when you get up and go to bed, eat breakfast, etc.   When you make an appointment to meet somebody, just bear in mind that they are in a different time “zone” from you.    In the fall, for instance, you “remain” in Santa Fe, and allow that everybody else has “moved” to San Francisco.  Well, except for your friends in Boston who have moved to Chicago.     If you want to meet with us, you have to be aware that we are living in a different time zone, but you don’t have to change your clocks.  It works beautifully in the fall because if you forget, you arrive an hour early to things.  Think of it, you would actually arrive at the beginning of FRIAM.   For me, as a person who is always late to stuff, it’s a great reprieve from embarrassment and humiliation. 

 

Now I am being a bit facetious because I have tried to do it for years and it does not work.  But I am not sure why it doesn’t work.  Evidently the force of social synchrony is so great one would rather go to the trouble to clock shift than to listen to Morning Edition after eating breakfast, instead of during. 

 

What would your fancy clock do.  I suppose it could say, “Good-Morning-Mr.-Densmore-We-regret-to-tell-you-that-your-noon-appointment-has-moved-to-San-Francisco-and-will-be-an-hour-late-for-his-appointment.”    And”The evening news is regrettably delayed an hour this evening.  ETC.” 

 

N

 

 

 

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:50 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

 

I think I confused folks: the reference to europe's DSL change being 2 weeks after USA was just an example.  Steve Smith: thanks for making me recall the north/south difference as well.

 

I just gotta think we have to

- Change times at the same date universally

- Just stick with standard time

- Build fascinating clocks that Deal With It

 

But man, my sleep cycle is a bitch to maintain through all this!  Sigh.

 

   -- Owen

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