The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. The vote was 308-117.
The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. The vote was 308-117.
Well sure people are different. I’m definitely a night owl. But coming up with time divisions and time zones at all were ways to give a reasonable reference to the sun’s position in both nearby and far away regions. It’s of course never going to precise everywhere. But I don’t really think a deliberate seasonal redefinition of the time to suit corporate whims is really the most logical solution, either. We could instead socially agree to have summer/winter business hours, for example. We already do that for days of the week. Just agree to adjust work from 9-5 to 8-4 instead of saying 9 is 8 for the next 7 months. You still get your after work sun while being more honest about where we are in the rotation and it will have the same physiological impact. We already have 38 time zones instead of 24. So we can make them more granular if we need to re-align closer to solar min/max within the population centers where it would matter most.
edit: probably relevant to add that I also think we should switch to a 13 month calendar of 28 day lunar months with a global holiday at the end, which goes for two days on leap years.