Thread: Permanent summer time

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Someone satirically suggested splitting the daylight with a dark period in the middle of the work day when most workers and students are inside anyway. 'That way we could have sunlight in the mornings AND in the evenings'.

If there is only going to be one time it should be standard time. I find having solar noon and solar midnight at 1:00 AM and PM insulting. If you want to synchronize your work hours to sunlight, change your work hours, not the clocks. I suspect that if year round DST is adopted many businesses will start having later winter hours anyway because starting outside work when it's pitch black and freezing cold is ridiculous. This will result in having a less consistent version of what we're doing now with the time change, except the clocks will be wrong ALL year.

I completely agree with you, real proper time for me - I'm voting for standard time and when I put my plan to rule the world into action you'll all obey my authoritii.

Splitting the daylight up so it's dark when your in work and light when you're not does sound intriguing however but there is always the danger that the wife will double the size of her honey do list because it's light, and she IS the boss of me.

And all this because Ben Franklin had a sick sense of humor. That doofus also wanted the wild turkey as the national bird.

As latitudes change, so do the daylights hours in the winter time. Here, in the winter, no matter what we do with the clocks, I start in the dark and finish in the dark. If we wanted to have it light to start the day, and still be light when we finish the work day, we would have to work a 5 or 6 hour day. Transversely in the summer it is sun up between 4 and 5 and light out until 10 to 11. So here, daylight savings means nothing. There is nothing there to save in the winter. All it does here is annoy everyone with the cloak changes. On an island, everything runs on island time and because of that people have a hard time being on time already, messing with the clocks accomplishes nothing. Perhaps because we have aLl these wacky zones already we should split it up and everyone who feels like they get something out of it should run their clocks as they feel, and everyone that gets no benefits from changing can just hang out where they are.

Actually, in the U.S we did year round DST years ago. People hated it and they went back to the current regime. I think it was during the first Gas crisis.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Actually, in the U.S we did year round DST years ago. People hated it and they went back to the current regime. I think it was during the first Gas crisis.

I think I heard about that, wasn't it an attempt to use less lighting etc. I don't understand how changing the clocks could save actual gas unless some people get instantly cold when the clocks go back and turn on their furnace. Maybe the power stations ran on gas. In UK they ran on coal, but Maggie Thatcher ensured it wasn't British coal.

A couple of times it went year round

During WW2 and in 1973ish

The 1973-1974 attempt was an abject failure and brought up the kids going to school in the dark after 8 got killed in FL

it lasted 8 months

the US went from 6:6 months to 8:4 months in 1986 or so, I think we had 7:5 for a bit too

I feel Mother Nature giggles every year as man tries to change the fact that there is only so much Daylight each day hehehe

In most places the original excuse for introducing DST was to save energy during wartime. IIRC that was during WWI.

Bob

A little DST trivia. The first city to adopt DST was Port Arthur Ontario on 01 July 1908. That must have been interesting as the City of Fort William bordered on the City of Port Arthur. The two cities were finally amalgamated into one in 1970 and called Thunder Bay. Being born in Fort William it is small wonder I hate DST.

https://nationaltoday.com/daylight-savings-day/

Bob

Changing your work day to match the daylight makes sense to me.

When I worked in the foundry we changed our workday to match the temperature.

When it got hot out we changed our workday from 07:00-15:30 to 04:00 - 12:30.

Originally Posted by 32t

Changing your work day to match the daylight makes sense to me.

When I worked in the foundry we changed our workday to match the temperature.

When it got hot out we changed our workday from 07:00-15:30 to 04:00 - 12:30.

That only works in places that only run one shift. Running one shift is not normally the most efficient way of production nor the cheapest.

Bob