Can't we keep the link with solar noon?
Morocco should be on UTC, most of the cities fit neatly in that timezone. They could have made this decision on Monday
Morocco should be on UTC, most of the cities fit neatly in that timezone. They could have made this decision on Monday
Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most social events also happen after the work day. So our day is already shifted from what would logically follow from our clock. Being on +2 already feels like a compromise between the two.
I'd love it if getting up at 4am and going to bed at 8pm was the norm, and solar noon was the exact midpoint of the day, but as I am not a recluse I cannot start that trend, and therefore shifting the timezones seems more reasonable.
Being a 'sunlover' I'm regularly up before dawn so that I can catch the first rays of Sun as it crosses the horizon. To me it's the most beautiful part of the day. Unfortunately, we have semi-arbitrarily defined 'zones' that fluctuate 1hr because of the propagandist notion that extra daylight at the end of the day means more people will be outside enjoying the Sun. This DST causes my work day to suddenly shift so that I'm forced to go to work earlier than normal, & I miss a lot of sunrises as a result.
I like this idea of solar noon for times... Especially for overseas communications too... because we'd just need to know the longitude of the person to know their exact time. (Currently, I'm forced to use timeanddate.com to work out relative overseas times).
Where I am, the state to the North of me doesn't follow DST (Qld), whereas mine does (nsw) and it creates havoc around the beginning/end of DST.
So, at least for me, there are three reasons to use solar noon based time rather than the current system. I'm sure I could come up with more.
That said, I go to bed early too, and acknowledge that isn't the way most people live.
I sure don't want to have to think about a few minutes of time difference between Oakland and Sacramento, after all.
(Lunches aren't paid, that's a WA State law.)
I've done a 10-7 shift, it's miserable. Waste half your morning, and half your evening. You have to get ready for work when stores and banks are just opening, and you get home just as those shops are closing.
I prefer 7-4 because it leaves a bit of late afternoon and the whole evening.
https://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/Wages/HoursBreaks/Bre...
Looks in the mirror.
You get 4:30am to 7pm in summer, and 8am to 6:30am to 4:30pm in winter. For most people, noon is not in the middle of the day (when they're waked up).