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Most Canadians changing clocks to spring forward for daylight time (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's very arbitrary.

The sun is at the highest when the sun is at the highest. It's called the solar noon. If you are in Thunder Bay, it happens arouns 1PM EST/2PM EDT. If you are in Gaspé, it happens around 11:20 EST/12:20 EDT.

See how much binding the timezone to a specific shift doesn't make sense based on your arbitrary metric?

[–] Hawke -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All that means is that the layout of the time zones is stupid. Noon is noon, and my opinion is that clock noon should be as close to solar noon as possible.

or we should eliminate time zones entirely and use a single clock time worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eliminating time zones would be pretty amazing.

If we eliminated DST for the summer, or would not have permanent DST, we'd need to change culture to not have 9-5 banking/office work days but rather 8-4, 7-3 or 6-2, similar to how the trades already work.

[–] Hawke 1 points 11 months ago

we'd need to change culture to not have 9-5 banking/office work days but rather 8-4, 7-3 or 6-2, similar to how the trades already work.

Realistically we already do. There’s enough variation in start times… yeah 9-5 is traditional but plenty of places have slightly different times