I made this annoying meme after thinking about how most of the anti-DST arguments involve wishful thinking about how we could get the best of all worlds if “everyone would just”. Of course everyone will never just.
I think the following are valid ways to argue against DST:
Estimate the value people get from the additional summer evening daylight. Like what would people collectively pay to hit snooze on the sun setting for an hour during the summer. Then compare that with the many costs, like sleep disruption and software bugs. And of course the lost morning daylight.
Propose a realistic scheme by which business hours could be shifted without changing the clocks.
I think the nay-sayers have a visceral feeling that changing Time is just deeply, fundamentally stupid. Maybe even wrong in a very literal way. Time is what it is. Changing our clocks does nothing but sow confusion. Can everyone not just do what they want to do when they want to do it, regardless of what numbers are displayed on clocks? I think people really can’t. We are social creatures and those numbers are critical infrastructure for our ability to coordinate.
I made this annoying meme after thinking about how most of the anti-DST arguments involve wishful thinking about how we could get the best of all worlds if “everyone would just”. Of course everyone will never just.
I think the following are valid ways to argue against DST:
Estimate the value people get from the additional summer evening daylight. Like what would people collectively pay to hit snooze on the sun setting for an hour during the summer. Then compare that with the many costs, like sleep disruption and software bugs. And of course the lost morning daylight.
Propose a realistic scheme by which business hours could be shifted without changing the clocks.
I think the nay-sayers have a visceral feeling that changing Time is just deeply, fundamentally stupid. Maybe even wrong in a very literal way. Time is what it is. Changing our clocks does nothing but sow confusion. Can everyone not just do what they want to do when they want to do it, regardless of what numbers are displayed on clocks? I think people really can’t. We are social creatures and those numbers are critical infrastructure for our ability to coordinate.