> People are so disconnected from the world that their abstractions of it become more real to them than actual reality.
Because my job starts at 9 am regardless of the position of the sun.
Because my job starts at 9 am regardless of the position of the sun.
We spend so much on engineering systems that handle DST changes, there’s an increase in sleep deprived auto accidents, people die from heart attacks… All to avoid individuals asking for different hours at work?
Sorry, “changing” time twice a year is not a reasonable substitute for scheduling work appropriately depending on the season.
Nor clubs nor churches and even friends when they do party they set time.
Yes, because the rest of society also changes their schedules, in sync. Most people don't have the ability to unilaterally change when they work irrespective of everyone else. If they did, switching between DST and standard time wouldn't matter either—just tell your boss you'll be coming into work an hour "later" in the summer.
Now I'm going to have that for three months, while the sun rises even later!
I'm not in favor of switching clocks, but I'd rather switch than have permanent DST. This change caught me out of nowhere and I'm already dreading it, I'm going to be miserable all winter!
The inherent problem is that we're switching the time by a full hour all at once. We could make the change more gradually, perhaps by a few minutes each week—but nobody wants to coordinate that!
They could also tie it to a vacation where people tend to shift schedules anyway. Like “new hours after the new year!”
If we as a society wanted to adopt this solution (which admittedly requires societal agreement—I think you might need that anyway!), I actually think changing clocks would be the only way to make it work. Most clocks these days are or could be computers, so we could make them adjust themselves by 15 minutes every Sunday, and no one would have to think about it.
For most companies it wouldn’t be hard to say “no meetings before 9am from November to March”.