Thread: Permanent summer time

My point is we all have a biologic clock that regulates how we function. Just ask someone who just flew across many time zones how they feel or a factory worker who just changed shifts. It's also why when we change to DST the incidence of heart attacks and illness increases for a few days.

A clock is a clock whether you buy it at Sears or is in the sky or in your brain and that includes most animals maybe all. Who knows?

You may dismiss physical clocks as some human artificial meaningless contrivance but it's just a reflection of what exists and controls everything in the natural world.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

My point is we all have a biologic clock that regulates how we function. Just ask someone who just flew across many time zones how they feel or a factory worker who just changed shifts. It's also why when we change to DST the incidence of heart attacks and illness increases for a few days.

A clock is a clock whether you buy it at Sears or is in the sky or in your brain and that includes most animals maybe all. Who knows?

You may dismiss physical clocks as some human artificial meaningless contrivance but it's just a reflection of what exists and controls everything in the natural world.

Maybe I'm just not saying it right. You actually made my point better than I did. What I'm trying to say is the same thing. My only problem with clocks themselves is that they can be based on whatever we say they're based on. That's why I dislike introducing daylight savings time or standard time when it has been DST is because our bodies get used to a specific flow and it's disruptive. I understand the reasoning behind why the change to DST but why not, instead, just leave the clocks where they are and adjust the times that we work or go to school or whatever and avoid so much disruption? Personally, I think we should stay on standard time, but I still really believe that putting it 30 minutes in between them would work. Whatever we do though, let's set it to one time, whatever makes the most sense and leave it there.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Maybe I'm just not saying it right. You actually made my point better than I did. What I'm trying to say is the same thing. My only problem with clocks themselves is that they can be based on whatever we say they're based on. That's why I dislike introducing daylight savings time or standard time when it has been DST is because our bodies get used to a specific flow and it's disruptive. I understand the reasoning behind why the change to DST but why not, instead, just leave the clocks where they are and adjust the times that we work or go to school or whatever and avoid so much disruption? Personally, I think we should stay on standard time, but I still really believe that putting it 30 minutes in between them would work. Whatever we do though, let's set it to one time, whatever makes the most sense and leave it there.

Well, no clocks can't be based on whatever we want. The day has 24 hours no matter what and an hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds and so on. None of that can change.

What they can do is change how we relate to that regime.

... fine. You can have the last word.

I can't believe this conversation is still going on!

Originally Posted by Johntoad57

I can't believe this conversation is still going on!

Leave me out of this.

Noo, we aren't finished yet!!

I think every timezone in N. America should change their clocks progressively further so that the whole of the US and Canada has one single time and that when it's 2pm on the East Coast, it's 2pm on the West Coast.

Dare ya not to reply