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0 pointsljm5y ago0 comments

Technically DST _is_ accepting that it's going to be dark at different times, and therefore the completely man-made thing that is a clock can be changed a bit to reflect that.

A perfectly human solution really: work around the shift in daylight hours across the year by fiddling with the clocks. The whole thing with schedules and timetables is a self inflicted problem in a post-industrial society, sure, but workarounds are never really meant to be more than a bandaid.

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ghaff5y ago

The problem is that you need to "fiddle with the clocks" in a coordinated way. Schools can't shift around starting times asynchronously with the many businesses where parents work for example.

davidw5y ago

Yeah. Any sufficiently coordinated schedule change would involve as much headache as clock changes.

CydeWeys5y ago

More of a headache, even. Sadly, DST is the only good way to have everyone synchronize a schedule change like this.

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