Posted on 03/11/2017 10:49:33 AM PST by SamAdams76
When I sailed around the world, luckily we went toward the east. We got extra hours lots of times. But there was a Wednesday I never lived.
Thank you. That means a lot.
I grok it!.......
Daylight saving time may be killing you
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daylight-saving-time-may-be-killing-you/article/2617030#!
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Set your alarm for 11 p.m. yesterday. If you must, set your clock 7 hours ahead so that it reads 6 a.m. Why should we bother with all of the hassles of time zones the only effect of which is to change what number reads on your clock at any particular time of the day?
Time zones have way more effect than that. The only real problem time zones have is that they’re too big, they were an over correction from every town having their own local time by and large synchronized to when the sun hit noon. In a mobile, as we were becoming with the train, it can be a bit confusing having towns that are less than an hour’s travel having different times, though we kind of handled it pretty well by putting big clocks near the train station. But it wasn’t smooth enough, so they made time zones, put a big swath across the country and declare that in this swath it’s all the same time. And it’s not a bad idea, except they went for 24 hour long swaths which makes things kind of weird on the edges. They should have gone with 48 half hour swaths. What numbers the clock says at any particular time are important, because noon is freaking noon, we can all see it, and if the clock doesn’t say something close to noon we’re gonna say the system sucks. Your way my clock would say 7PM (ish) at noon, that sucks.
I’m trying to figure out how that shows that time zones have more effect than just making sure that the time on the clock says what we think it should. If we were all synced to GMT, what would be the problem? I believe that aviation already does this.
It’s useful having the time on the clock say what it should say. Having afternoon snacks at 9PM would be weird. Aviation is synced up because part of the point of aviation going through more than one time zone and things get confusing if you try to adjust. We aren’t synced because we DON’T go through more than one time zone and things would be ridiculous if we don’t adjust. Really what do you think we’d gain if we went to GMT? TV would still be broadcast at different times for different areas, you’d still have to remember what functional time it is there when you call somebody not in your area, you’d still be out of circadian rhythm when you traveled. We’d just be working through all this more on the fly without time zones helping us with the math.
Cows and their caretakers do not practice DST. Every dairy I am involved with across middle America keeps the same schedule of hours for their cows. The feedings and milking continue in the same sequence of hours as always no matter what the clock says or how the handlers feel about it. It is a matter of health and output.
When I coordinate meetings with people across different time zones, which I do all the time, I would just say the time. When I try to plan a plane flight in time for a meeting, I would just do the math of how many hours the plane flight is, not needing to bother with the addition or subtraction of time zones. The only reason that having afternoon snacks at 9 p.m. seems weird to me is that it’s always been that way. If had always been at 9 p.m., it wouldn’t seem weird at all.
You’d still have to do those things. People won’t be syncing up the work day to GMT, people in California won’t be getting to work 11 hours before solar noon just because 9AM on our GMT synchronized clocks. You’ll still have to take into account that the schedules of people in different parts of the country, or planet, WILL be different and that 9PM will not be the same part of the day for everyone. So you’ll still be doing all the same adding and subtracting, only you’ll be doing it without the convenient cheat sheet of time zones, at least with time zones you know NY is 3 hours ahead of CA and can adjust accordingly. If we synced all our clocks on the utterly useless for most of the world GMT we’d go back to syncing our actual schedules to the sun and then you’d have Dallas and Houston not on the same time. Everything you listed would become much much harder as this singular clock became largely meaningless.
I don’t see that. If I send am email that we’re having a conference call at 9 am GMT everyone would call in at the same time.
Except the ones for whom 9AM GMT is too early, like pretty much the entire US (really that’s 2AM where I live). I work for a global company, really we’ve got at least one office in pretty much every time zone on the planet (even some of those little goofy ones). The CEO loves “all hands” meetings (teleconferences with web video), and he loves to schedule them 9AM where ever he is, which is usually Eastern Time where our HQ is. During DST they’re 6AM for me, I accept the meetings, and ignore them, during non-DST they’re at 7AM and I dial in when I get to the office around 7:30. Sometimes he’s visiting somewhere and it’s a more convenient time. Sometimes he’s visiting somewhere and it’s less convenient. I always accept, I only dial in if it’s convenient.
One way or the other the people in your meetings have a schedule they keep. The only way that schedule syncs with GMT is if they live within one time zone of GMT. If you actually want them to attend your meetings you need to schedule it according to how they live. All clocks reading GMT won’t change that.
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