And you want to abolish DST but the end of your comment is that you actually want even more shift including in winter.
I fear I have trouble following your reasoning and understanding what you actually want.
And you want to abolish DST but the end of your comment is that you actually want even more shift including in winter.
I fear I have trouble following your reasoning and understanding what you actually want.
In fact, as some have suggested, we should also give up time zones and just use UTC for everything. That way when you have to schedule a Zoom call a few thousand miles away, there is no confusion as to the time. Some idiot might retort that since people like to sleep when it's dark, that instead of looking up the time zone difference, you'd have to look up what time the sun rises where they live.
I say screw them. Half of the world should just learn to live with sleeping during the "day" and go to work at "night." We've got electric lights now. It's a small price to pay so that programmers don't have to do time zone conversions.
Way back in my pre-parent days, I used to wake up around noon, roll into work between 1-2 PM, work until around 10 PM, and then go to bed around 4:00 AM. There was briefly a proposal to give me and a few other late-rising coworkers rollback privileges to the Google Maps codebase, because between the Maps team in Zurich, the Maps team in Sydney, the Maps team in NYC, and a few night-owls in California, that would give them 24 hour coverage with significant overlap for handoffs. It went nowhere because we didn't work on Google Maps and some VP probably balked at having people not in their org with full owners privileges, but it's an interesting example of combining timezones + personal schedules to get better time coverage.
Obligatory link to 2015's "So You Want To Abolish Time Zones":
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692011
Lol. Lmao, even.
No further comment needed.
Lol no, that would be indeed even worse. I want to do the shift once and forever. Well, first and foremost I want to get rid of the twice-a-year switch. The question that usually arises then is "should we be permanently on standard time or on DST", to which my proposal is standard time (because it's correct) but shift working hours once and forever so we have more sunlight all year around. During summer it would be the same as it already is and during winter we have one more hour of sunshine, which is the time of the year when I want sunshine the most.
many people prefer to have the daylight at the start of their day.
Therefore why not just stick to summertime and skip the whole "change every opening hours" thingy ?
Cities closer to the poles might want to adjust more than one hour, or none at all since they see little sunlight for months anyway. Cities near the equator might not need to adjust at all. Businesses that need to be synchronized could still coordinate their operating hours. It's the most natural approach is DST had never existed.