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 (DIR) Post #Asa2Jj6oRTeZkDnqC0 by tudbut@social.tudbut.de
       2025-03-30T10:12:54.362004Z
       
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       the time zone situation is dire (small thread)
       
 (DIR) Post #Asa2JkGm7vDVLPTJMO by tudbut@social.tudbut.de
       2025-03-30T10:19:58.185283Z
       
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       here’s winter time in europe. red means clocks are 30 minutes or more ahead of solar time (based on solar noon). note how it doesnt look that bad in most of europe, and this doesnt change throughout the year. even tho spain n stuff are weirdly far off.
       
 (DIR) Post #Asa2JlNY0EECmheEYS by tudbut@social.tudbut.de
       2025-03-30T10:25:46.677468Z
       
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       and here’s summer time. note how solar noon hasnt changed, so we just get even less light in the morning. that’s what daylight saving means: having more daylight in the evening than the morning. except we destroy sleep quality for an entire night by reducing sleep time by an hour. not to mention this is also just completely destroying the circadian of course, and that takes a few days to fix for most peopleso it would make much more sense to just always have the same time obviously. if we stay on winter time, we get nice comfy waking up from sunlight because our circadian wake is aligned with relatively early morning (would be around 6-7AM for most people iirc). if we do summer time, we get no such alignment.
       
 (DIR) Post #Asa2JmGqgcSpYDWOki by fristi@56k.dile-up.nl
       2025-03-30T12:31:40.487975Z
       
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       @tudbut let's be honest, did summer time ever help much at all?As a construction worker, I find it to be only counterproductive. At the moment when we dial the clock forward, where it does the most, it only keeps it dark longer in the morning, which is actually hindering since we usually start at 7AM. Meanwhile during the summer, it doesn't make any difference since there's plenty of sunlight from before 7AM to well after 5PM, regardless of summertime or wintertime. And during fall, we once again get the downside of it being dark in the morning.And let's be honest, during winter we just have too short a day, it's gonna be either dark in the morning, in the evening, or both. Besides that, these days we have construction lights, so it doesn't really matter anymore.Let's just keep eternal normal time.
       
 (DIR) Post #Asa2Ju9hN5Uw0MEnia by tudbut@social.tudbut.de
       2025-03-30T12:21:02.807770Z
       
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       oh right image credit!from article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Europe By Naive cynic at English Wikipedia - Own work, Information on time zones and daylight saving time rules used by the depicted countries and territories is taken from the IANA Time Zone Database., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1185133
       
 (DIR) Post #Asa3A6baKQZxfwAlSC by tudbut@social.tudbut.de
       2025-03-30T12:33:39.594980Z
       
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       @fristi exactly - summer time just makes it darker in the morning. and specifically the morning, exactly when we need light the most to align our circadian rhythm and wake up thoroughly