Comment on xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice
Seraph@kbin.social 1 year ago
The vast majority of people want it, but we can't get organized enough to politically make it happen.
You can use the word it above to apply to a LOT of things.
Comment on xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice
Seraph@kbin.social 1 year ago
The vast majority of people want it, but we can't get organized enough to politically make it happen.
You can use the word it above to apply to a LOT of things.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s really not worth the hassle tho…
Like, back when we had oil lamps and even when we first had electricity…
Sure, why not do it?
But now benefits are negligible, and the downsides like skyrocketing rates of early morning heart attacks are very real.
There’s just no good reason to do it, and lots of reasons not to
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I heard somewhere (shit source I know, but I’m at work so not looking it up) that one of the main proponents of daylight savings is golf courses (and restaurants). They get more tee times in with more daylight. And since everyone that rules the world golfs for some damn reason, I don’t see it changing soon.
b14700@lemm.ee 1 year ago
it was never worth the hassle because its not for your benefit its for the benefit of your boss , you waking up earlier in winter gives your boss one extra hour of work from you in daylight
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought this was for farmers back when they were their own boss?
JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m not a farmer, but farmers don’t really care for daylight savings time. Cows don’t understand it, and won’t wait an extra hour to be milked. It takes them time to adjust to the change, and in meantime either the farmer has to get there an hour earlier by the clock or the cows will be in pain, possibly sustaining real injury from being overly full of milk.
An extra hour of dark in the morning isn’t useful for planting or weeding or harvesting, either.
OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
www.historic-uk.com/…/British-Summer-Time/
In the UK it was brought in during the first world war as a method partly to save coal. Never had anything to do with farmers, but seems to have become a convenient explanation for it these days.