Yes, please, do it already!
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On the other hand, if we had not saved daylight we would have probably ran out by now.
It's "have run," not "have ran." Thanks for coming to my TURD Talk.
A lot of people have started using simple past tense for all perfect tenses lately, but I don't like change, dangit.
Yeah I mostly learned English watching Cartoon Network, when it wasn't with subtitles or dubbed. They basically started airing in the Netherlands and an entire generation learned English by watching cartoons after school.
This is now repeating with YouTube and teens watching a lot of English youtubers.
I miss those days, Dexter's laboratory, Dragonball Z, two stupid dogs...
Beam me up Scotty!
Years ago, the EU parliament decided to abandon DST - with a vast majority. They sent it to the governments as "Homework" to determine whether to keep Summer- or Standard Time. Nothing came out of it.
The EU parliament didn't vote to abandon DST, they voted for letting countries decide if they want to do DST or if they want to stick to one time zone. Apparently most countries decided to stick with DST.
They were asking for feedback and I sure wrote a bunch and sent an email or wtv it was supporting the idea of killing it please for yesterday.
They should obviously keep standard time. No one wants light at 10pm!!!
I stand corrected. People seem to love evening sunlight
I would 100% rather light at 10pm than 4am where it's totally wasted.
Current light breakdown in Ireland over the year:
I always forget how far north a lot of Europe is. The fact Dublin is further north than most Canadian major cities throws me for a loop
Yeah it's one of those weird map oddities that's more noticeable on a globe.
We are mega fucked here if the gulf of Mexico ever stops sending us that warm water goodness.
YES FINALLY!
Funny coincidence that they started doing that after i commited myself to life in winter time for ever. Wake up at 5 summer time and 6 winter time
Just make it happen already!
It doesn't even matter which they pick, just pick one! We're free to live our lives independently from the clock. There's no natural law that states work starts at 8.
Let's keep summer time, It's already dark before 18, once we'll switch to winter time it'll be dark before 17. The benefit is that instead of going to work and starting to work when it's dark ,we'll go to work when it's dark and start to work at dawn. Not worth-it
No one stops you from getting up 1h earlier in the morning.
Permanent summer time would force everyone to do it.
You got down voted but no-one actually counters that argument.
Why should everyone be forced to get up earlier because some of the population want to? They can already do that!
And to people who say "mORe LiGhT iN tHe evEnINgS" - for most of us in Europe it'll only buy you a few weeks at most and then it'll be dark by the time you finish work/school anyway.
Most people don't have much control over their working hours.
Which is exactly my point. Summer time forces me to get up 1h earlier than normal because I can't choose to come to work an hour late.
But with normal time, you can always choose to live on "summer time" for yourself by getting up an hour early.
UTC for all.
Man that would fucking blow for so many people.
The date would change in the middle of a business day
Fun fact: In some countries you can say "see you tomorrow" when going for lunch.
What's preferred by Europeans, permanent standard time or permanent daylight time?
For me summer time (where we have light during the evening) is the best! Nothing comes even close to it
I mean, you could do it in winter when you actually need more daylight time... Or just go to work and come home in the dark and take vitamin D supplements all your life.
In the winter you come home in the dark anyway. Daylight saving does jack except make my morning even darker.
Oh, no - itβs not just making your morning darker! By making you wake up earlier in comparison to the natural rise of the sun, which shifts you farther outside your natural circadian rhythm than capitalism already does, you experience an effect similar to what people on the trailing edge of time zones experience, at least for a time. These include higher incidences of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and breast cancer. Oh, and increased rates of suicide.
β¦yay.
Edit: I love that every time I wade into the DST debate and present evidence that DST is garbage and we should all be starting our day later, I get downvoted or argued with by some person who thinks that because they get more sun in the evening, they are a better judge of the right approach to health than peer reviewed science.
I struggle in summer DST. Because the sun sets later, I don't get hungry untiil later, which triggers my tiredness later, which makes my eventual sleep shittier, and I'm more tired in the morning.
Fucks with farmers too.