• @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago

    This topic (and all previous discussions around this question) is the exact example why it hasn’t been changed and likely never will be changed: People cannot agree to either of the solutions.

    A good solution for your place is a bad solution at some other place.

    It’s just a popular topic for politicians to talk about - and then not doing anything about it.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      How did people do before the oil crash and the reinstating of the daylight saving time?

      Different countries could have different timezones, the US work with different timezones

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Timezones solve an entirely different problem.

        Timezones solve the east west problem, while daylight saving time solves the “sun rises later in winter”-problem. So more like a north south problem - because seasons.

        If you want to suggest to create more “north south” timezones, you’d only make it more complicated than it is already. After all one of the more sane arguments is to remove complexity by removing DST. You’d bring complexity to a whole new level instead.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          I wasn’t introducing north south timezones, just reacting to the common issue that is that some countries prefer summer time, while others prefer winter time. The issue seems to be there because we want countries as far apart as Spain and Poland to share the same timezone.

          An article that addresses that issue, with an interesting proposition (4 timezones instead of 3)

          https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/28/when-will-the-eu-end-seasonal-clock-changes-only-time-will-tell

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺English
          1•1 year ago

          North south timezones also dont work all that well really. the further you go both morning and evening move. so you just end up having to got to work in the middle of the night and come back in daylight or the other way round

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          the US work with different timezones

          Timezones solve an entirely different problem.

          I think that technically, time zones may include whether-or-not DST is supported, not just the “bands”. But, okay, yeah, that’s semantics.

          That being said, the US also doesn’t entirely use daylight savings time, so @[email protected]’s point still stands.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States

          Most of the United States observes daylight saving time, the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Exceptions include Arizona (except for the Navajo, who do observe daylight saving time in Navajo Nation),[1] Hawaii,[2] and the overseas territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.