It think that's the key point. Standard time is great for communication
and coordination, but it shouldn't control our lives. I hope the people
in western China aren't forced to get up in the middle of the night for
work, and try to get to sleep an hour before sunset just because Beijing
dictated a single time zone.
If one was living where the clock corresponded fairly closely to the
sun, it seems that logically you'd generally want to go to bed at 20:00
and get up at 04:00. I suppose some do, but it's difficult the way our
society is structured. As far as working hours go, I'd like to see a
lot more flexibility and variety. Having everyone working the same 8-5
causes immense waste of time and resources just due to traffic.
Regardless, nobody reacts well to a sudden shift of an hour. I presume
dairy farmers who don't like getting kicked in the head do not impose
these on their cows.
sas
On 9/18/2018 11:43, Tony Thigpen wrote:
The problem is not as much the times zones, as it is the way we work.
Time zones are (mostly) tied to Solar Time, which is another way to
say "the sun is directly overhead at noon". While our jobs revolve
around noon, our lives do not.
For example, then '8 to 5' job has 4 hours before noon and 5 hours
after noon. But, if there are 12 hours of daylight, we have 3 of those
hours before work and 4 after work. The problem then is that we spend
those early 3 hours getting ready for work in our homes where it does
not matter that it is daylight out. After work, it's a different
story. We come home, though some work clothes on and want to work (or
play) outside until dark. Then we come inside, turn our lights on, and
do whatever until it's time for bed.
Farmers have always been light centered. They got up at daybreak and
worked sometimes several hours before then had breakfast.
We really need to get out of the '8-5' work times. While outside work
needs to be daylight centered, we could make our standard workday
'6-3' and a lot more people would be happy with the available daylight
after work.
Tony Thigpen
Mike Schwab wrote on 09/18/2018 11:19 AM:
Well, there are problems in China since they use Bejing time across
the country and have a 3 hour difference at the Afghanistan border.
But essentially, the U.S. Eastern, Central, and Mountain times are one
time zone as far as TVs are concerned.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:43 AM Paul Gilmartin
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