Re: Yearly rant about this daylight savings stuff

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Nov 06, 2016; 3:50am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Yearly-rant-about-this-daylight-savings-stuff-tp7588107p7588112.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?ref=opinion

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2016 8:39 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Yearly rant about this daylight savings stuff

 

Another real world example: Our skype Italian lessons always hit a bump because Italy does not change their clocks when we do! Even worse!

 

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Well, not too long ago either, there were not time zones, but much smaller time areas .. aiming for noon = sun overhead. I got that from reading british detective stories where the watch of the murder victim is carefully observed to find out where & when he died.

 

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sure agreeing how to meet and when is handy.  But I genuinly don't get the the daylight savings thing.

 

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Steven A Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Gil wrote:

Rant:

Why do we change around the clock?

 

From google searches, the US is one of the few countries left that does this ritual.

Here is what I found:

 

Blue and Orange follows Daylight Savings Time rituals, Light Gray have "reformed" from it, Dark grey have abstained (forever?).  Most of the "developed" world seems to continue the habit.

Having lived in AZ, I have some sense of the history there, including the "notch" of the Navajo Nation which follows NM time (their capitol Window Rock being in NM).  I was unaware of the Canadian and the Sonoran abstinence.   Mongolia and Iran are mild surprises.  I thought *all* of Aus went with DST.   Having friends in Melbourne, I am always frustrated by the "double shuffle" that occurs twice a year since we are out of sync as well as out of phase, so we range from being 0-2 hours off of "longitudinal" clock differences depending on time of year... for 4 distinct periods of difference!

As much as *I* don't live by a clock, I am still effected by the shifts...  I wish we could (all) stay on a single plan, preferably with the sun straight overhead at noon.

 

 

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