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At the end of the article, there's this interesting fact:

King Edward VII invented his own timezone for the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk, in 1901 to squeeze in half-an-hour more hunting time each day

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[–] Zachariah 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

half-an-hour more hunting time each day

time zones can’t make more time available

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's about daylight savings, it provided more daylight to hunt in the evening, presumably because the day's other activities ended earlier.

[–] Zachariah -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was the king. He had the power to make people spend less time each day doing activities-other-than-hunting rather than force them to wake up earlier by doing this time zone nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Don't take my explanation for an endorsement, I've no love for DST either

[–] nogooduser 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can make the time that you have more useful though.

There are activities that you can do in the dark and some that you can’t do in the dark. I imagine that they wanted to sleep in late which was cutting into hunting time so they changed the time zone so that it was dark while they were sleeping and light a bit later to allow for more hunting.

It’s why we have daylight saving time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My whole life I've heard people say that. It's as if they don't realize they're just tricking themselves.

You can't actually change when the sun rises or sets. You can only change the arbitrarily chosen number that time is labeled with. You're still getting up earlier, while telling yourself you didn't, because the number is the same. If you wanted to get up earlier you could just do that with the normal numbers. It would be exactly the same. The time change doesn't effect anything real.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It works because certain numbers are socially ingrained. For example 8 a.m. is the normal time schools start here

[–] nogooduser 4 points 1 month ago

It is arbitrary, yes. Part of the reason for daylight savings time was simply to match most people’s waking hours to a standard time throughout the year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone didn't read the article. Tsk tsk!

[–] Zachariah 2 points 1 month ago

off with his head

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Why didn’t they just adopt the standard Norfolk time zone of -40 years?

[–] lemmus 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Invented” in the sense that Elon Musk “invents” things. Pure ruling elite folly.