On 2026-03-03 10:32 AM, 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.
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was was quickly repealed.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?
There are many discussions of DST, ranging from energy to safety to
sleep patterns, etc.
There are two aspects I think do not get enough attentions that argue
for "permanent standard time":
1) local timekeeping as per TzDb and downstream systems, where
introduction of "permanent daylight time" causes technical difficulties,
confusion, and likely unnecessary expense.
2) Some USA federal proposals for "permanent daylight time" actually
alter the terms of the 1918 "Calder Act" and the Uniform Time Act of
1966. It seems to me this must have important legal ramifications for
nearly every document and procedure that relies on a date and time.
Does a change like that alter the meaning of every contract, transaction
or schedule ever issued?
Save Standard Time
https://savestandardtime.com/
