I can think of several ways to get that proverbial extra hour of daylight in the summer months. Move north. You'll get a lot more than an extra hour of summer daylight. You also get winters of doom and gloom...
Extra leisure would be far better, in my book, an hour or more. But this is a political non-starter. Oligarchs and the bien pensant nomenklatura prefer to impose a miserable, stressed-out Stakhanovite existence.
I view it more like the grocery store. Periodically they move all the products around, and customers are disoriented until they get acclimated.
The store has a commercial incentive for this — it's so that we have to wander around more and will hopefully pick up more items to purchase in the process.
In the case of the government with Daylight Slaving Time, I can't help thinking it's more like shaking up the rats in their cage to watch them run around in distress. (Sorry, Rat!)
I wonder what would happen if a country decided to set 00:00 as the exact time when the sun begins to rise in the horizon.
Depending on the day, noon would happen by 06:00. In the Winter, it would be sooner, and in the summer noon would be around 0800 or later.
Sunset would be somewhere between 13:00 and 17:00.
And everyday would be different in length, and we would have to choose to make some hours longer than 60 minutes and other hours shorter, or to say that some days have only 16 hours, and others have 30 hours.
I would also make a 365-day week, so that there is no weekend. Everyday would have a different name according some comic book character. Like day 123 of the week would be Spidermanday, and day 300 would be Songokuday.
I would also prohibit coffee and alcohol, and I would mandate heroin and cocaine.
All this as part of a jolly scientific experiment, to see how people adapt.
Daylight Savings Time SUCKS!!! Sun time = Standard Time ROCKS!!
Rat I am confused, when did an Edict trans into a sale.
In our imagination :)
Just imagine they actually had to sell it.
Funny but to consummate the sale, the government would pay us to accept it and tax us on our gain.
Make that 59.99 minutes.
I can think of several ways to get that proverbial extra hour of daylight in the summer months. Move north. You'll get a lot more than an extra hour of summer daylight. You also get winters of doom and gloom...
Extra leisure would be far better, in my book, an hour or more. But this is a political non-starter. Oligarchs and the bien pensant nomenklatura prefer to impose a miserable, stressed-out Stakhanovite existence.
DST is break-even or zero sum, no?
Technically, yes.
I view it more like the grocery store. Periodically they move all the products around, and customers are disoriented until they get acclimated.
The store has a commercial incentive for this — it's so that we have to wander around more and will hopefully pick up more items to purchase in the process.
In the case of the government with Daylight Slaving Time, I can't help thinking it's more like shaking up the rats in their cage to watch them run around in distress. (Sorry, Rat!)
Government. Pickin on the rodents. Always pickin on the rodents!
I wonder what would happen if a country decided to set 00:00 as the exact time when the sun begins to rise in the horizon.
Depending on the day, noon would happen by 06:00. In the Winter, it would be sooner, and in the summer noon would be around 0800 or later.
Sunset would be somewhere between 13:00 and 17:00.
And everyday would be different in length, and we would have to choose to make some hours longer than 60 minutes and other hours shorter, or to say that some days have only 16 hours, and others have 30 hours.
I would also make a 365-day week, so that there is no weekend. Everyday would have a different name according some comic book character. Like day 123 of the week would be Spidermanday, and day 300 would be Songokuday.
I would also prohibit coffee and alcohol, and I would mandate heroin and cocaine.
All this as part of a jolly scientific experiment, to see how people adapt.
Ha. A discount of 1.66666666667%. What a deal!