I hate Daylight Savings Time for three reasons: a) it is no longer necessary; b) it causes me to have 1 hour less the day before it happens; and c) it screwed up my sleep schedule! So in my opinion, Daylight Savings Time is stupid as s***! (Sorry, just needed a place to vent my frustration)
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Totally agree. I think a) is a good enough reason to eliminate it.
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All the legal roadblocks were eliminated last year, if memory serves, the states can now do it when they want. Several Canadian provinces will wait until specific states move ahead, like BC and AB on the west coast, and Ontario needs the EST to switch. One piece the general public doesn't know about is keeping all the stock exchanges on the same time, at least within a region like East, Central, and the Pacific/Mountain combined. At the moment, most of us are pre-occupied either about defending our country (Canadians) or in the case of Americans figuring out how to deal with the coup underway in Washington.
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For most of the last 20 years I have worked for a business in the UK owned by a US company and using their systems. So we had to deal with 4 potentially risky time changes every year, because DST doesn't start & end on the same day in UK vs US, there is a 2-week gap at both ends, and our UK and US colleagues sometimes failed to understand and plan for this.
What caused even more problems was the date format difference! The commonly used UK format is DD-MM-YYYY. But US date format is MM-DD-YYYY. So if you accidentally feed a date like 01-04-2020 into a US system, it accepts it as valid, but misinterprets it as 1st April instead of 4th Jan. That caused so many incidents over the years, sometimes with significant costs.
Of course, all systems should be designed to accept only international date format YYYY-MM-DD which is much more sensible, but many of these systems were designed before the US company owned any overseas companies, so it wasn't thought of.
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Regardless of whether you think it's a good or a bad thing can someone explain to me what it's supposed to do? What daylight is it supposed to save?
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And can you withdraw it? And does it draw interest. Is it manageable with an app?
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I Googled it, and apparently it was originally meant to "conserve energy", but that fact has been debated. Also, apparently it would give an extra hour of daylight after most workday activities. I found both of these in the Wikipedia article:
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I think it's supposed to bias the scheduled work time towards the beginning of the daytime time as the daytime lengthens so that there's more time for leisure/entertainment/business/tourism/sales after work.
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LOL
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I’d prefer 100% DST. (100% either one should address all of the OP’s complaints…)
There have been a couple articles claiming that there are places in the us that would have sunrise as early as 4am, or sunset as late as 10pm, without the seasonal changes. I love it being light till 8 or 9, but 10pm would be too much…
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That's pretty much what we get, I am in the UK, about half way up (Nottingham). Mid summer it never quite gets dark, there's a few weeks with twilight in the middle of the night.
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The other phenomenon is how far the sun moves in a NS direction. When I lived on a lake, my house was almost exactly situated on a compass. In the summer, we could see the sun rise and set out of the north-facing rear windows. In the winter, it barely cleared the small hill in front of the house, facing due south. This is why orienting solar panels in the very place they are most needed is so tricky.
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I prefer Standard Time because the timings on my games are better for me. (Things usually reset at a specific time [like 4:00 PST], and DST pushes that by an hour)
In the UK we had double summertime, where for two years we did not change the clocks.
Between 1968 and 1971, Britain tested keeping BST all year round. It was called British Standard Time.
It was almost universally hated, the further north you were the more you hated it. It was designed so that if it did not get parliamentary approval it would revert back, it did.
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I think that you are confusing two different things
During World War 2, between 1941 and 1945 we had Double Summer Time and the clocks moved forward 2 hours during the Summer
Then from 1968 to 1971 we kept GMT+1 all year round
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Trust me that will not be a consideration for which time version we keep if we ever get it done.
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Time math is the biggest headache. One should do the internal processing/storage/timekeeping in standard UTC/GMT/ZULU and only do DST and timezones for the UI.
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That is exactly what I did for the three ticker plants in Toronto, Asia, and London.
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Had to look it up Yikes! That has to be correct.
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How am I confusing two different things?
I know about 1941 and 1945 despite being -10 years of age at the time. So I don't have any direct experience of it.
That is exactly what I said in the quote?
So how come I am mixing up anything?
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