if you keep your clocks on UTC like god intended then you would have no problems.
Like most countries near the tropics, Thailand doesn’t need Daylight Savings transitions for the usual reason. However, former Prime Minister Toxin (P.M. Lucky Girl’s brother) once proposed that the country shift by an hour permanently.
Reason? Thailand’s stock market was in the doldrums because of all the Singapore and Hong Kong traders who, unwilling to wait the extra hour for Thailand’s stock exchange to open, bought shares instead in the Southeast Asian markets in the earlier time-zone. :dubious:
Why not just open the stock exchange earlier and leave the clocks alone? In Toxin’s opinion, forcing schoolkids all across the country to wait for their schoolbuses in the dark was preferable to making Bangkok’s elite travel (in chauffeured limousines) to their brokerages during rush hour.
(Toxin, who founded the political party “Thais who love Thais so very very big”, is most famous as P.M. for waiving capital-gains tax when his family sold their telecom conglomerate to Singapore. His sister, not to be outdone, is famous for her attempt to corner the world rice market – a plan that left rice farmers defrauded while rice rots in giant warehouses. Toxin is now a criminal fugitive living in Dubai. He has a PhD in … wait for it … criminology. Not to worry: U.S. insistence on “purple-finger democracy” wll probably give this family another chance to occupy Government House and do zany things!)
During most winter months (late November through around February or March) I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, no matter whether it’s regular or savings time. I’m a fucking mushroom.
I live in a state where they do change the clocks, and the expense of buying new ones every six months was killing me.
Then I realized, all I have to do was keep the ones I bought a year ago and set those out instead. Problem solved!
So, there. Ignorance fought. No need to thank me; spreading the knowledge around is reward enough.
I’m looking forward to my gf’s car clock being correct again. She never changes it and I’ve screwed up a few times due to it displaying the wrong time.
I agree. I have a semi-annual “standard, daylight, split the difference, pick something else altogether, I don’t care, just pick something and STICK WITH IT!!!” rant.
This is the one time of year I agree with Saskatchewan. They don’t change their clocks in the Spring and don’t seem to be the worse for it (except for living in Saskatchewan. I keed, I keed).
[Modest proposal]I think we should adjust our clocks ahead ten minutes at the end of each month for six months, and then back again ten minutes for the next six months. Forget and you’ll only be late/early by ten minutes.[/modest proposal]
Why can’t we leave the clocks alone, and adjust the scheduled times of things that depend on sunlight? If kids shouldn’t walk to their bus sts in the dark, schedule the busses accordingly. Let that vary with latitude and longitude, and any other local issues.
That’ll make it harder for the child molesters to find them.
That “But the kids! School buses!” thing doesn’t really hold water any more. Where are kids still allowed to walk to the bus stop? In this area, the few school-age kids get picked up at their house, and in our previous neighborhood, they couldn’t be trusted to walk from one end of a cul-de-sac to another, so the streets would get clogged up with cars as Mom or Dad would drive the kids to the corner.
Here. Rural Ottawa. Canada. Also, kids in the city who don’t take the school bus have to take a city bus, and that doesn’t stop at each door, but at least there are street lights in the city.
ETA: Honest to God people, it’s one hour, twice a year. Deal with it.
Where I live, it’s dark when they get on the bus before we change the clocks, and dark when some of them get home after we change the clocks. So why does it really matter which one it is? Why not pick one and live with it?
…These go to eleven.
No. I’m tired of putting up with stupid shit like this when there is no justifiable reason for it, and many good reasons not to. Just because we’ve always done it this way is bullshit. The same goes for QWERTY keyboards , too.
Word. In winter it’s basically dark apart from a bit either side of lunchtime, in summer it’s never more than a bit dim so it’s completely pointless.
But even in e.g. London civil dawn/twilight runs from ~0700 to ~1820 by the end of november so all it DST really does is exchange a dark journey to work and a lit journey home for the other way round, which I really don’t see as all that big a benefit. A cold shower and/or coffee will wake you up in the morning but there are no good solutions for being tired after a long day when it’s dark.
However, even though DST is an annoyance, it would be a very minor one if only everybody would get with the program and do it ON THE SAME DAMN DATE. So noogies to the US and Australia for doing it on stupid dates and extra noogies to Arizona for not doing it at all and therefore making life even more annoying.
P.s - wedgies to all those places that absolutely MUST have half-hour offsets like India and Central australia.
What about places that have 15/45 minute offsets?
I love daylight savings time, but I think you have that backwards. Daylight savings time takes light from the morning and gives it to the evening. It’s going off daylight savings back to standard time that makes the sun rise earlier.
Yeah, I realized that after a bit. I like getting 9 holes of golf in after work in the summer. I can’t understand how a one hour shift twice a year matters to anyone in the least. Hell, most clocks set themselves these days too.
Yep. I once lived in the upper latitudes in a place that didn’t observe the time change. Try waking up at 3:00am to take a leak, with dawn clearly breaking, and not being able to fall asleep. Jesus that sucked.