On 2026-03-03 08:32, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
On 2026-03-03 08:59 AM, Peter Krefting via tz wrote:
2026-03-02 23:09 skrev Steffen Nurpmeso via tz:
i do not understand, maybe some of the readers here can explain to
me how
"wake up earlier and have more light at the end of our social day".
and
for better entrainment to solar exposure.
Because it is true? My body clock tells me to go to sleep at a certain time of
day, and then the wake-up clock tells me when to awaken. When I have to adjust
the clock, that means one hour less of sleep.
So if studied academics bring arguments like [2] does, "-1 hour
sleep!", then i wonder. How about being *conscious* about the
living situation, and go to bed earlier?
Yeah, good luck with that.
The *solution* is of course to set the *wake-up* signal to one hour later, and
to shift office hours by one hour forward, so to get in to office at 9 am
instead of 8 am during DST. That's the only way to properly cope with DST-
related jetlag that I have found so far (I have tried, it works very well, the
only problem is coping with other people expecting you to be in early).
My main gripe is the morning dusk. It's of course not a real problem in
summer, then I don't care if sunrise is at 4:00 or 3:00, because I will be
asleep by then, but now that we are *just* getting daylight at wake-up we're
about to set the hour back an hour, so that we again have to wake up to the
despair of blackness. That's the problem.
My gripe is more with sunset. Here in Massachusetts, USA "Eastern Time", the day
before the "DST fall back" it's dark around 5:30pm, and the next day it's pitch
black at 4:30pm. I hate that. Plunged into 'despair of blackness' (I love that
phrase. :-)).
I find it curious how we all live by the clock on the wall rather than natural
daylight. This of course makes sense since the whole point of civil time it to
"coordinate activities", But DST basically makes no sense. Why do we need more
sunlight in the afternoon in summer when we naturally have more sunlight in the
afternoon in summer? If later sunset is the objective it would make more sense
to have DST in the winter. But that's not how it's done. DST causes trouble for
somebody at both sunrise and sunset.
Up here, we end up getting ~four months a year of driving to and/or from work at
"rush" hour, into the sun, around the Southern US based change dates, and they
wonder why there are so many collisions with vehicles and pedestrians?
If those politicians worked regular hours, they would not be so ignorant of the
realities on the road.
Including the effects of traffic "calming" and "control" measures slowing
traffic, enabling ~75% of drivers to use their phones, so their eyes have to
adapt between the dull cabin and the sunrise/sunset, and they can't wear
sunglasses, because then they would not be able to see their phones.
With pedestrians also using their phones, heads down, nonchalantly strolling
onto a crosswalk or into an intersection, confident that drivers will notice
them and react instantly to obey the law yielding them right of way.
Darwin Awards earned! ;^J
I wonder what might have happened back in 1973 if the USA had gone to "permanent
standard time" rather than "permanent daylight time", which was was quickly
repealed. Maybe "permanent standard time" would have held?
Permanent "solar" ~standard time zones would avoid most of these issues, instead
of businesses and politicians trying to "control" behaviour causing issues.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
