Submitted 17 hours ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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I’m about 3 minor inconveniences from going off the deep end on a good day
My favourite fact about this topic is that there is a significant bump in car accidents twice a year due to day light saving change.
So we literally sacrifice a few lives here and there cause it used to benefit factories (not fully recalling the reason, I think it was for WWII)
Always follow the money. Oil / petrol sales benefit from more light after work hours. It still benefits some big industries.
The majority of actual human beings do not want dst, and are clearly harmed by it. It’s still around because industry has found ways to profit off it and while you and I would do better without it, they will fight to prevent meaningful change.
*Worst day of the year so far.
No but seriously this is not necessarily abolish daylight savings time either make it permanent or standard permanent i have no strong opinions but stop the changing.
Gets even more fun when you move to another country and are coordinating calls back home and realize different countries have different days they switch the clocks
And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.
The only real problem with daylight savings for me is this kind of thing, because they can’t be adjusted anticlockwise.
The fuck is that? Could be a very nice medieval torture device. Or a beautiful mechanical clock.
We just changed our clocks in BC for the last time ever
“3 minor inconveniences”
…plus or minus four.
dan@upvote.au 45 minutes ago
I occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the code base.