as I understand it, any state can opt for following standard time year round.... but they cannot chose DST year round. That requires a federal change
But you don't get more evening hours; it just changes where the hands on the clock point during those hours. Getting out of work at 4pm on DST is no different from getting out of work at 3 on standard time. Deliberately misaligning the clock time with the real time, i.e. DST, only makes sense if you're making a temporary adjustment.
I always wondered why there's a Pacific time but not an Atlantic time. So I guess there is.
There are many reasons Congress does nothing about almost anything useful. But the way I read this thread is that almost everyone agrees that we should pick one or the other. Even if Congress picks one that half the people don't like, most of those people would still be happier than they would be just leaving it as it is.
We made it through Y2K with little impact because an army of programmers and technicians spent many many late night hours working on fixing all the screwed up code that had accumulated for most of the last half of the 20th century. The only good part of it was that our bosses bought us a lot of coffee and pizza.
Good thing my schedule is offset several times a week. Probably why I’m the health specimen that I am.
The particular post you are referring was not intended to infer anything about time zone changes. It was a specific response to the comment about how we survived Y2K. True, the event was a nothing-burger. But that was only because of a lot of hard work and money spent behind the scenes. The thing that amazes me though is that I am still seeing some of the same type flawed coding going on again today.
But the reservations do change their clocks. If folks driving on I-40 changed their clock everytime they entered, exited a res then they would change their clocks 6 times while going through AZ. Confused yet.??
Meh... Days are short enough in winter that I think everyone could make use of an extra hour in the evening, vs. only the morning people in the morning.
Because I don't particularly like Nebraska.
Yet, we have Indiana already. In Indiana, the counties nearest Chicago stay on Central because they're pretty much part of Chicagoland, and the rest stays on Eastern, except for the parts that are on "Eastern Standard" so effectively bounce back and forth between Eastern (when everyone else is on Standard) and Central (when everyone else is on Daylight). It's like Arizona except at the county level, so nobody knows what dang time it is! But it works, for them, somehow.
There were some *well publicized* accidents going to work or school in the dark at the time and that was part of what was used to whip people into a furor about it, but later studies found that there was no significant difference in the number of accidents that occurred.
And put all the morning people on the East coast and the night owls on the West coast?
IIRC, that's exactly what China does. One time zone for the entire country. The country is about as broad as the US, and would have four zones otherwise.
That is correct. In practice, people in the western part of the country start and end their day later than those in the east. The time is based on Beijing, in the east.
They probably established that single time zone back in an era when nobody traveled much.
As a software engineer of 25+ years that has had to deal with a multitude of time-related bugs... YES! Make it UTC for the masses. Communicate in UTC. I think after a bit of time (pun intended) folks would just get used to starting work at 1300 UTC and finishing at 2100 UTC or whatever.
Yeah, it's fun flying diagonally across Indiana from Nashville (central time) to Chicago-land and watching the clock on the iPad flip-flop between central and eastern a few times.
That’s because they cross a time zone every 3 minutes and 45 seconds, and they got sick of keeping the clocks reset to local.
I'm not so sure... Do you start your work week by going in to work on Monday and home on Tuesday and end it by going in Friday and home on Saturday, or do you start with the Sunday-Monday and work through Thursday-Friday?
Yeah, I know and agree. It's a fun thought experiment. There would certainly be a lot of confusion at first until everyone got used to it.
So, you’ve met my… oh, never mind. I’d better shut up before I’m unhappy too.
It was put in place by Chairman Zao to "aid national unity" in 1949.
