>Nobody knows how it came to be
>Nobody knows why we still do it
>Everybody fucking hates it
What the fuck is the deal with Daylight Savings?
Daylight Savings
>Nobody knows how it came to be
>Nobody knows why we still do it
>Everybody fucking hates it
What the fuck is the deal with Daylight Savings?
The funny thing is that because every clock in the world is now automatically synced to some time server somewhere, daylight savings time isn't even that big of a pain in the ass anymore like it used to be when we all had to set our clocks manually. I still haven't re-set my watch though.
It's just annoying getting used to and depressing as fuck to have night come in earlier for no apparent reason. Makes you feel like you're in a simulation.
the deal is simple
>sun will rise at 6am standard time, and set 10pm standard time
>people will leave wageslavery at 5pm - whether standard or daylight time, leaving them 5 hours of sunlight under standard time
>make time go forward artificially by an hour
>sun now rises at 7am daylight time, and set 11pm daylight time
>people leave wageslavery at 5pm, leaving them now 6 hours of sunlight
>11pm sunset
where the fuck do you live?
Arctic probably
edmonton, in leafland
sun sets at midnight on the solstice
brother...
Brother what?
It's actually 11:00 and nighttime is only 7 hours on the solstice.
It was started in ww1, something to do with rationing hours in Germany iirc and the other countries involved copied it.
But why did they keep it after coal became irrelevant?
Some homosexual from NZ idk
Energy rationing didn't become irrelevant, coal or no coal. Also it's not going away if anything with the advent of smart electric grid and remote work a lot of people may have their schedules forcefully shifted around just so renewable energy system doesn't crap on itself.
How does it ration energy in ways that can't be done through a less retarded system?
Reduces the amount of time you need to keep your lights on and makes it so the peak energy consumption happens closer to peak energy production of solar panels which is something very worthwhile for the future. Once smart grid becomes a thing there will be further change of evening the peaks of consumption by making rolling blackouts possible on level of individual level.
>He thinks solar will dominate anywhere outside of desert countries
NGMI
It will dominate and it will be garbage with always online switchboxes helping to manage it through selective shutdowns. Where we're going there won't be 24/7 electricity coverage.
It was an idea Germany had for rationing, and it didn't actually work but every other participant in the war adopted it to not lose any possible advantage. After the war they got rid of it, but reimplemented it in WW2 to be sure, and after that war they got rid of it again. The current DST practice began when France implemented it again in the 70s for no apparent reason, and other European countries followed only to keep schedules aligned.
I get it being a Euro thing that's a legacy of WWI, but why did the U.S and Warsaw Pact do so as well? It makes no sense.
I think it's just because Western Europe was doing it and it seemed like the right thing to do. Once someone does it, that automatically creates an incentive to do it too for compatibility, and then it's peer pressure from there.
I'm just surprised it was never rolled back and blindly became near-universal so quickly. Seems like something without historical precedent.
I'd say there's a lot of things like this but only DST is minor enough that you can freely complain about it.