What to do about DST?

Everyone wants to bitch, so what should we do instead?

In Idaho, what fucking difference does it make if it gets dark at 9 instead of 10?

Each of the last two years I’ve made in person pleas to the highest levels of government to end it. The restraining order is becoming a problem but I think I got through to him!

Nothing. Leave it alone. We tried permanent DST in the 70s. It didn’t work. No reason to think permanent standard time would work any better.

...except that it did until DST was created?

If we got rid of Dumb Shit Threads, WF would pretty much have to close down.

Blame it on woke trans ideology and the republicans will try to end it to avoid doing any real work. Then all you need to do is get a couple of dem senators to vote with the reps before they realize the plan, and Biden will sign it to make his repulican friends happy.

Permanent DST, since that’s what everyone seems to like. Just stop the fiddling with the clocks stupidity. It accomplishes nothing.

yeah... YMMV on that if for no other reason than daylight saving ideas predate standardized time/time zones by close to a century.

Corporations and business has always been and what will in the future be the driving factor for having a standardized time. Sure, we could all go on a UTC time clock. But, then, we'd never again be able to use the excuse "it's 5 oclock somewhere.". We'd all be stuck at 3 PM waiting to have a drink.

Everyone who voted "Keep things the way they are" should be taken out back, beaten with a rubber hose, and then shot multiple times in the head.

Just pick a fucking setting and leave it. If YOU need to change YOUR schedule, do it like an adult and leave everyone else the hell out of it.

Having the time change allows coordination of those schedule changes. If you don’t like it, change your own schedule in the other direction. It’s exactly equivalent, except you don’t have to worry about what happens if your two jobs, or job and school, change schedules at different times.

Generally I prefer permanent Standard Time, although from China DST puts the difference with the US East Coast at an even 12 hrs, easier to calculate when I call home.

If you can't deal with the outcome of your life choices, that's your problem. Don't be imposing on others because you can't manage your own shit.

Sunrise should always be 6:00, and sunset always 18:00. From there, the number of minutes and seconds in an hour is adjusted locally and daily so the light period and dark period is twelve hours.

Also, everyone uses the 24hr time format, no more of this AM/PM crap.

You don’t seriously tell that to your boss, do you? Or have you by some miracle convinced them to change hours opposite DST?

If you're making that comparison, I will expect you to PAY me for setting my alarm to conform to your schedule.

Jesus fuck. I hate DST pretty hard but reading @Uncle Albert’s dickless small white man rage makes me want the clocks to change twelve times a year just to piss him off more.

Don't you have an ambulance to go chase?

No.
Never you.
Never.

Enforce it yourself then, ya prick.

Don't you have an elementary school to stand exactly 500ft away from while you proudly announce to all passers-by, "The conditions of my parole state I can't be closer than 500 feet, standing exactly 500ft away is my constitutional right!"?

Then no doubt you demand all of the businesses you patronize to change their hours to oppose DST, and throw a righteous fit outside their closed doors 30 minutes after closing time in the summer. And have your friends (maybe a bad existential assumption) tell you times in standard time only lest they get an earful about how you’re being oppressed by their choices. God help the receptionists at offices trying to schedule appointments for you as you tell them off, or worse, when you claim oppression for missing the appointment by an hour. No doubt if you had children you’d drop them off and pick them up at school an hour late during DST.

You must be the whiniest little bitch in real life, or else you just play one on the internet. Not sure which is sadder.

To be clear, if @Uncle Albert was a woman his vagina would always be bleeding.

Negative.

You're making a lot of fictional hay over my desire to not change my sleep schedule twice a year for no goddamn reason. You vying for Diacanu's Hack Clown Bullshitter job?

Your fantasy life lacks imagination. You would be no match for my angry ginger furburger.

Your sleep schedule will change anyway. Before there was DST there were "summer hours". The question is whether or not you want to change it in sync with everyone else.

Double post. Not sure how that happened.

This makes no sense. The entire purpose of DST is to ensure everyone’s “summer hours” are the same. So, if there wasn’t a DST and the work schedule stays the same, then there’s no reason to “sync with everyone else”.