• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      How far north do you live to get darkness at 3.30 pm?

      Its also not a choice between ops pictures and this because i am convinced they are criticising daylight saving In summer, which does not affect winter.

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        4 months ago

        Yes, it is mocking DST.

        Where I live the sun comes up at 6 am and sets at 9 pm. That makes the noon at 1:30 pm. If we didn’t have DST it would be up at 5 and down at 8 pm with noon at 12:30, which would be preferable.

        DST fucks with my sleep schedule, I hate it so much.

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          4 months ago

          Why on earth would that be preferable? Unless you get up at 5am the morning sunlight is wasted, and you have less sun to enjoy in the evenings

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            4 months ago

            Objectively,

            Because we would be avoiding the 2 jet lag times a year which have been proven to cause deadly (traffic) accidents.

            Because the other alternative of always dst means sun only gets up at 10am in winter which can negatively impact mental health (especially for children and teenagers)

            Subjectively,

            Because some people actually enjoy summer nights.

            Because getting up on time is easier with more sunlight. And waking gradually and naturally at 5:30 beats waking forcefully by alarm at 6:30

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              4 months ago

              DST is in use 3/4 of the year. It is “normal” time, where everyone recognizes that 4am is entirely too fucking early for a sunrise, so we push that back to 5AM.

              “Standard” time is the abnormal abomination that we currently switch to for about 3 months in winter.

              Seasonal depression in kids and teens is primarily due to the lack of outdoor activities in winter, which is caused by an abnormally early sunset driving them indoors immediately after school.

              Locking the clocks on normal, “summer” time solves the problems with the time change. The “kids walking to school in the dark” problem is mitigated by the fact that they already spend the darkest three weeks of the year on winter vacation; we can extend that one more week by stealing three days from each end of the summer vacation. The remaining two or three weeks of early morning darkness do not justify stealing months of evening daylight from the rest of us.

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    4 months ago

    Sorry, but I prefer this to winter days where I don’t see the sun at all because it’s only up while I’m at work.

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    4 months ago

    I like longer daylight it’s key to me being happy, but I have a car now with led strips all over and I rarely get to drive at night so be nice to drive home again in the dark in winter