• TurboWafflz
    link
    4111 months ago

    I don’t understand why it never occurred to anyone that they could just change the times they do things instead of changing the clock

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      2211 months ago

      Pretty sure it did, and would lead to conversations like “Oh by the way boss, for the next 6 months I’ll be coming in an hour late. You guys are cool with flex time, right?”

      • @ShakeThatYam
        link
        English
        311 months ago

        Me: As long as you leave an hour later why do I give a shit.

        Probably why I’m not the boss of anything.

    • @Bashnagdul
      link
      911 months ago

      Technically, that’s sorta what we do… We all agree to make everything one hour off, including the clock.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      211 months ago

      It would cause disruptions because of business hours inconsistently changing.

      You know your suppliers business hours, they don’t change. The clock changes, but your supplier still opens at 9am, you know when you’re working they’re open.

      If it were trivial to accomplish individually, then you could tell your boss that after the time change you’ll be coming into the office at 10am instead of 9am and negate any ill effects from the time change. If place of employment is cool with this, then you make this change right now. But most people have to conform to what the rest of their industry is doing.

    • Echo Dot
      link
      fedilink
      -111 months ago

      Potato tomato.

      You wouldn’t doing the same thing either way so what difference does it make?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      -1
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      …Right? Like, if you want daylight at the end of your work day, just start work earlier in the day.

      Instead, we have the tyranny of night owls who cannot wake up at a decent hour wanting to move clock noon wildly away from solar noon just to pamper their solipsistic needs.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      -14
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      DST was established in the context of anemic government trying to show extensive reach/control over the economy at a time where it had very little (arguably it still does today but only because most governments have matured to represent their most powerful class). As if to say “We determine the clocks that industry schedules by”

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          2611 months ago

          farmers? the people who have to do things by daylight hours regardless what any authority around them counts as the time? they’re the ones that need daylight saved?

          what?

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              811 months ago

              very convincing and condescending. now everyone reading is wholly swayed in favor of daylight savings. job well done. farmers need it because people who don’t want it clearly aren’t farmers. brilliant.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          1611 months ago

          In Canada, one of the biggest farming provinces is also the only one that doesn’t have DST, and they seem to be ok. I think.

          • @John_McMurray
            link
            1011 months ago

            That province tried it for one year when it was a new idea, decided it was stupid, and stopped.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              3
              edit-2
              11 months ago

              One of the few based things Sask has done. Add to the list: producing Diefenbaker, who appointed the first Indigenous Senator and gave all Indigenous people in Canada the right to vote, and Tommy Douglas, who instituted the first ever single payer universal healthcare program in ALL OF NORTH AMERICA in Sask. That then became the basis of the universal health care program we see in Canada today.

              Too bad their current government is super regressive and like taking AmeriPol talking points instead of actual effective governance.

              • @John_McMurray
                link
                -311 months ago

                Yeah unfortunately none of that stuff was sustainable and that’s why we’re kinda fucked economically. They won’t grow some balls and end it, but they won’t fund it properly either, cause they can’t without making everyone even poorer.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  1
                  edit-2
                  11 months ago

                  indigenous right to vote and universal healthcare are unsustainable and making everyone poor, and they need the balls to end it? what the fuck dude?

                  edit: just perused and yeah that’s a full blown nazi. nevermind to whatever they were going to reply with. blocked.