Monday, March 11, 2024

Reposted as a protest against losing an hour of weekend.

 Three Proposed Changes to Daylight Savings Time

 The first (from XKCD's Randall Munroe) has some obvious issues.

Monroe also suggests an alternate solution in the title text, averaging out the spring and fall changes and setting clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

While Monroe's 39 minute approach is more practical, it still doesn't address the primary advantages and drawbacks of the current system. Most people like getting an extra hour of weekend and dislike losing an hour. Historically, this has been presented as an unavoidable trade-off, but it doesn't have to be if we just broaden our thinking. If we just set our clocks back twice a month, by the end of the year, everything will work out even. 

The good people at Explain XKCD point out an unexpected benefit of the current system: in at least two separate cases, terrorists have blown themselves up due to failure to spring forward or fall back.

4 comments:

  1. It's "Daylight Saving Time"

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  2. https://www.instagram.com/p/C4VeGODOBdl/?igsh=MTBzcnljem53dmJxMw==

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  3. ^ the dictionary weighs in

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  4. As long as I don't have to fix it. MP

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