And what's with time zones? We should do like mother russia and use one time. Phoenix time. (Does russia still do that? I know for flight schedules they did.)
probably. it seems soviet russia was proud of its 11 time zones. I distinctly remember stories of flight schedules published in one time zone regardless of what the local clocks had. I think it was Aeroflot, but this may have been a popular myth perpetuated by Eastern Airlines schedule programmers. Airlines have y2k type bugs twice a year when the clocks change. Calculating elapsed times is hell normally (what happens when you cross the international date line????!), but accounting for various DST rules: AZ, Indiana, and the rest of the world drove me to drink. Ok Indiana has gone over to the dark side.
China has time zones, only larger ones than in the West. I suggest doing away with the 24h-cycle and time zones, just have one universal time of 10 hours per day and 365.25 days per year, i.e. 36.525 days for each of the ten months, and 3.6525 days for each of the 100 weeks. Depending on where you live, you might go to work at 1 o'clock, or 5 o'clock, or 9 o'clock, unless it's one of the shorter days that hasn't got a 9 o'clock, and weeks would change around lunchtime or during the evening news, but scheduling transatlantic Skype calls would get much simpler.
I approve this. It would get rid of the pesky intl date line too. Oh and each hour should have 100 minutes to go along with the 10 hour day. Perhaps years should be 100 days?
The international aviation standard is ZULU time. It never changes, 2100 hrs is nine PM no matter where you are or anyone else is.
The goal is apparently to extend it a little more every year until it's the "standard" time and not the "saving" time.
The area around Vladivostok is a trip. The sun there doesn't rise until after eight in the morning. In the Navy, that's usually the universal time we raise the flag (because daylight is there by then. Even our quartermaster was confused!
Why even have clocks and calendars at all? It doesn't affect my masturbation and gaming schedule. Sent from my iPhone while driving
I'm not gonna lie. I love having the extra daylight in the evenings after being stuck at work all day. But, as soon as it starts being dark at 7am, it's time to end it.
I am much less bothered by dark mornings than dark afternoons. And in Boston, the combination of latitude with being on the far eastern side of the time zone means it's dark by 4:30 much of the winter. Fuck that. New England should be in Atlantic time.
@gul, the part of Japan I was stationed in was on the same latitude as Boston, and I was tripped out the first morning I woke up with bright ass sunlight....at 4:30 in the morning I never got used to the sun setting by 4:30 in Winter and was sad about it setting at about seven in summer, since DST isn't observed over there.
We get a nice late sunset in the Summer, with a prolonged twilight. It's quite glorious for there still to be light out at 8:30.
Yeah, I've wanted daylight savings time to be the year-round time ever since I was a kid. I hate that it gets dark by or before 6pm in the winter.
A lot of problems would be solved if they would just fix the earth's axial tilt. That's always bothered me.
This was the problem when some genius decided during the Nixon administration to set DST all year round. The hypothesis (based on I-don't-know-what) was that it would save on home heating fuel and, yanno, help America wean off foreign oil. Well, first of all, it didn't, and second, it was a big problem for kids in rural areas who had to wait by the roadside for school buses and, often, face a one-hour+ ride each way to school. IIRC, there were a number of fatalities because drivers couldn't see these kids waiting in the dark. So the legislation was scrapped.
And it was Bush who extended DST. What is behind the nefarious plots of Republicans and DST? What do they hope to accomplish with their devious schemes?
I have been lobbying for a WST, World Standard Time, which would be based on my hypothetical post Euromillions schedule: get up around 10pm, morning stuff until 12, swing by the then ex office to flip them all the bird, some light relaxation and/or shopping which would then immediately be followed by Happy Hour at the beach lounge. Fit in a phone call to the child somewhere, too, because she'll be in a Swiss boarding school (very high mountain) from kindergarten to her PhD in astrophysics. There, problem solved. Other than pressing this through every parliament on the planet I don't care about all my computerized clocks changing whenever and whatever the fuck they want while I'm asleep.
I vote for Axl Rose time. I get up around seven Get outta bed around nine And I don't worry about nothin' no Cause worryin's a waste of my...time... Now I get up around whenever I used ta get up on time But that old man he's a real muthafucker Gonna kick him on down the line
