Fuck Daylight Savings

[Kimstu]

Originally Posted by Jamicat

What about a Relative Clock Time?

Shorter days the Clock ticks faster.
Longer days the Clock ticks Slower.

You have the same sunlight time the whole year. [...]

Just a thought.

Congratulations! You just reinvented seasonal hours! (AKA "unequal hours".)

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by TelecasterLPGTop

...since time is merely a human invention and doesn't really exist, I don't care.

Time is not a human invention. The divisions of time are, apart from "days" and "years" which are naturally occurring.

[Kimstu]

Originally Posted by GuanoLad

Time is not a human invention. The divisions of time are, apart from "days" and "years" which are naturally occurring.

Well, all other units of time are naturally occurring too. I think what you meant to say was that some units of time are (approximately) demarcated by natural phenomena that affect non-human entities as well as humans.

And that would include not just days and years but other time units such as seasons and months (in their original sense of synodic lunar cycles, which regulate tides).

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Kimstu

Well, all other units of time are naturally occurring too. I think what you meant to say was that some units of time are (approximately) demarcated by natural phenomena that affect non-human entities as well as humans.

No, I don't think that is what I meant.

[Jamicat]

Originally Posted by Kimstu

Congratulations! You just reinvented seasonal hours! (AKA "unequal hours".)

Well gee...my wee-brain isn't so useless after all.

[Cheshire Human]

Originally Posted by Jamicat

Well gee...my wee-brain isn't so useless after all.

Yes it is. You didn't think of the primary reason it was never adopted. You don't get more daylight hours after work to do stuff. Instead, you get longer work-hours to fill up your longer workday, and get paid the same for them as you do for the shorter winter hours. And then you still don't get anymore daylight at the end of the day to do stuff.

[Kimstu]

Originally Posted by Cheshire Human

Yes it is. You didn't think of the primary reason it was never adopted.

"Never adopted"? Seasonal hours were widely used for centuries: in fact, what killed them was precisely the requirements of mechanical clocks, which couldn't adjust the length of their time units to the length of the daylight on a particular day, the way other timekeeping devices such as sundials could.

I quite agree that the combination of artificial lighting and the decrease in the percentage of the workforce engaged in outdoor occupations means that seasonal hours don't have a dog's chance of being re-adopted any time soon, though.