World Time Zone wrote: > Maybe we should leave clocks and time zones alone and just shift work, > school, and service times by 30 minutes?
If every business, school, and service entity shifted its times uniformly, then this would work, and would be effectively equivalent to having the government set the time as we do now. Anything short of complete uniformity would blow the plan. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, there was a tourist attraction in Buena Park called California Alligator Farm. One of their business cards showed that their hours of operation were 11 am to 5 pm during standard time, and noon to 6 pm during DST. Alligators don’t change their circadian rhythms when humans change their clocks. A tourist attraction can get away with this, in a way that schools and workplaces and businesses and daycare centers and everyone else whose schedules depend on each other cannot. -- Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
