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[–] watsym@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

DST seems to be such a mess. We should start doing it state by state if EU doesn't want to do it all at the same time. Poland should lead the way and be the first

[–] simon574@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had such high hopes back in 2018, I think France was pushing for it. Now 7 years later with still no progress I think the best bet is to move to China, India, Russia or Hawaii, or any African country except Egypt. Or South America except Chile. You see the overwhelming majority of people in the world don't have the DST bullshit.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago

India? You mean the "+05:30" timezone? I'd rather not deal with that :30 tbh. I like having my timezone arithmetics quite simple, just adding and subtracting hours. A half hour offset is worse to me than having to switch which offsets to use when. (Still better than Australia Central Western with its +08:45, but that's a low bar to clear.)

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Last time there was a vote and most people wanted to remain in DST permanently. Somehow then the whole thing just died out. I don’t think it’s ever gonna happen

[–] Skymt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Overslept for gaming session this year again. DST should have been abolished decades ago!

[–] aleq@lemmy.world 142 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Everyone wants this and it's taking decades....

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I very never heard anyone discussing this in real life outside of maybe 6 days a year. Much less so since smartphones became people's primary clocks since they auto adjust.

People also don't agree on which time should be kept.

[–] aleq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

6 days a year is quite a bit, but also the frequency at which it comes up in conversation is not really relevant to whether people want/don't want?

[–] crimeschneck@feddit.nl 29 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Sure, but then the question is: Winter time or summer time?

I'm not sure if the European people are equally united in this question.

[–] fmephisto@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

There's no such thing as "Summer time". What we have during winter is the astronomical time. Otherwise, I don't know whether I have a preference. I guess we could switch them up every other year or so, in order to sunset any confusion in the morning.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

Summer time. Every time. I'd rather it not be pitch black at 4pm where I am. I'd rather take the extra bit of darkness in the morning.

I also love it being 9pm in June and still having near full daylight ❀️

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[–] Mniot@programming.dev 64 points 1 week ago (8 children)

As a programmer, DST creates tons of bugs for anything using time and is annoying. But whatever, I guess I get paid either way.

As a parent, DST is miserable. It's miserable as an adult, also, but multiplied misery when you have to get up early to ruin your kid's sleep. And then that night they're not ready to suddenly go to sleep an hour early so you lose an extra hour...

I hope Poland succeeds.

[–] rice@lemmy.org 3 points 6 days ago

Yea people don't realize there are several different start/ends to it all over the world, not just 1 "everyone change it" and tons of special cases too. Terrible

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Every year when the clocks change people are cranky and start demanding this kind of thing be eliminated. Politicians capitalize on it and say they will do something about it. In a couple of weeks everyone forgets about it.

In the end, the government can't do anything about the tilt of the Earth and there is no time system that can be devised that will make everyone happy. Many people like having more light in the evening and wouldn't be happy if DST were eliminated. People are going to be cranky for a couple of weeks in the year but it's generally considered worth putting up with so people have more daylight in the evening rather than having it before they wake up.

[–] Untrending@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

We can get rid of DST while keeping that extra hour if we default to summer time, not winter. DST statistically causes many accidents twice a year, because our brains aren't ready / thrown off their rhythm, so making away with it would have a positive impact outside of not being cranky anymore

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Programmer as well and fuck that shit.

My cats are used to a very specific schedule.. now they're gonna wake me up 1 hour early for the next many weeks. Great!

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

I wonder if the sleep-change fucks up our brains and that's why more people aren't upset about it.

Until this comment, I'd completely forgotten about how the most recent time-change messed up me and the puppy I've been training, because of course she needs to pee as soon as she wakes up at 6am every day...

[–] 3xBork@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ain't that right. Going through it with our first this week and I get it. Of course the little guy is ticked off. He's feeling all of the confusion and tiredness we are without knowing or enjoying any of the benefits.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (26 children)

YES! Get rid of that dumb shit!
Not sure what programmers have to say about this though. Ideally DST would've been scrapped like 30 years ago back when there were a lot fewer people using computers, so a lot of code wouldn't need updating as soon as such a change is implemented, but waiting will only worsen it.
I think keeping summertime is the better option. Having a bit of sunlight when you come home from school or work in winter would be priceless. Even if it means darker mornings.

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Last push ended because of COVID. What's it going to be this time, Bird Flu or Texan Measels?

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