Subj : Re: Daylight Savings
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Thu Mar 20 2025 06:06 pm

 Ni> I'd have liked to stick to the old schedule, or even better, eliminate
 Ni> daylight savings time and stick to standard time so we don't have to
 Ni> deal with losing an hour again.  Although I like gaining the hour back
 Ni> later in the year, I think it would be less hassle to not switch at all.

It's interesting, looking at the various tradeoffs.

Since, we could go on daylight savings for the entire year, but then the sun would rise _super_ late, and this causes a problem in the winter.

We could go on standard time for the entire year, but then sunrise will be super early, and it's back to wasted daylight.

Or we could just get rid of time zones, and schedule based off of whatever is reasonable locally. Would it really be _that_ odd, if we just all used GMT, and shifted when we had work hours and meetings?

In the end, the tradeoffs being what they are, I don't expect it'll ever actually change. But, hey, I probably wouldn't have predicted the US adding on about a month of Daylight Savings time, either.

(Also, while we're at it, one nice thing if we go away from this, is that then people might be less likely to mess up time zones, when they say things like PST when they mean PDT, because they don't realize that the letters have an important difference. And also that they really could just say, "Pacific".)

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