I hate DST in general, I also hate waking up early and am a night owl which is part of it but it seems a needless complication to me and it also causes a lot of problems for the tech world, in the early 2000s there were fights over it in different open source projects that resulted in all sorts of messes. Just over it.
I said "dawn", the first appearance of light in the sky. I live in Seattle and civil twilight on June 21 begins at 4:30 AM PDT or 3:30 PST.
Actually, I think it's a part of daytime animals' biology to connect light in the sky with time to wake up and it still being night with time to keep sleeping. That's what humans did before artificial light. You can hear the birds singing at dawn, cats and dogs wake and look around. The light resets our body clock and one of the hints for adapting to jet lag is to get out in the daylight, especially in the morning. Sundown does not seem to be nearly as compelling.
The shorter days of higher latitudes in winter make standard time in winter very desirable, and also distributing the longer daylight hours of summer more usefully make DST in summer very desirable. Countries closer to the equator the difference in daylight hours between summer and winter is not as great, so it's less important to switch. And of course in parts up north of 60 degrees it's so dark all the time in the winter that there's no hope whether you go to standard time or not, and abundant sun in the summer, so there's hardly any point in switching.
I wish canada would takes notes and federally scrap it all together. Always seemed pointless to me
We tried this in 1974. The experiment was a failure, hated by almost everyone and repealed promptly when Congress was back in session. Too bad the Senate thinks we need to try it again.
DST in winter is a nonstarter. People need the sun to start to wake up and to set their biological clock each day. Some time with the sun up before the commute starts lets the ice, snow, and frost start to soften. Therefore standard time in winter is strongly preferred.
In summer, standard time here would mean dawn at 3:30 AM or so. That would be awful. Wake up for any reason at 4:00 and it's very difficult to get back to sleep with the sun up. Much better to have the long light evenings where it gets dark at 10 PM. So DST in summer is strongly preferred.
The change is only 5 minutes. If it's hard to adjust, go to bed early a couple of nights before and get outside for some light in the morning.
Getting up when it gets light in the morning is what daytime active animals do. Listen to the birds singing at dawn. The change from standard time to DST and back approximates that.
That will be in five more years when I quote a study showing how dangerous not switching is.
Over three months from December to March, public support dropped from 79% to 42%.
People in the USA also hate the metric system.
People in the USA also hate the metric system.
People in the USA also hate the metric system.
So much so that they have two different values for converting inches to centimetres. Depends on which industry they're in.
Standards, don't you love 'em? So many to choose from 😵💫
So for decades we had some packages considering So yes the Americans stole our timezones and we’re still paying for that stupidity even now.
The second one is the American Broadcasting Company, otherwise known as the Mickey Mouse Network.
