We're Getting Rid Of Daylight Savings Time
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Mostly, that is the way it works, but there are a lot of countries that span a zone boundary which find it more convenient to have one time countrywide. This is why the time zones in the U.S. are so Gerrymandered.
There's also the issue that the point of high noon shifts by about half an hour throughout the year so there's no "God's" time almost anywhere where high noon is exactly at 12 PM. May as well select a more practical time that gives us more daylight during waking hours, aka DST.
I don't understand what you are saying. A sundial provides high noon without fail. All you are saying is that the clock time can be as much as a half hour from full noon because the time zone is an hour wide. "God's time" is used de facto by astronomers, so it is not hard to get, but it will differ from time zone time. Who else uses astronomical time?
The farther north you go, the less and less the difference between Standard and Daylight Savings time makes a difference. At my latitude in the U.S., the summer days have 16 hours of daylight, and the winter days have only 8. The higher you go (Canada and Alaska), the more severe the variation (to 24 vs. 0). There is a reason that these climes were settled by northern Europeans.
Go to timeanddate.com and look up your location, it shows the time of solar high noon. You'll notice that time isn't stationary but it drifts around by about half an hour throughout the year. There's no single perfect "God's time" for any location on the planet because then we'd have to be shifting our clocks by small amounts every day. Maybe that's what astronomers do but it's not practical for the rest of us.
Even at high latitudes DST is better. Funny you should mention Alaska, it stretches far west of its accurate time zone and basically has year-round DST already, it just gets even more extreme in the summer when places like Gambell have their solar noon at 3:30 PM.
I live in Europe at ~60°N and I'd still prefer it if the little daylight we currently get lasted longer into the afternoon. Mornings are less relevant because they belong to the employer and shifting the light later in the day would also let us enjoy more of the long twilight before sunrise.
Same in the summer, I'll take 11 PM sunsets over 10 PM and so would most of the country, we tried permanent standard time and everyone hated it because people were used to outdoor activities until midnight. There's no point in wasting daylight at 3 AM when people are awake from 8 AM to 1 AM.
If you want "God's time," get a sundial. There's going to be as much as a half hour's difference from local high noon anyway, due to the geographic width of the time zone. If you are not really serious at all about having "God's time," then go with the flow and use local time per zone. Anyone who receives Universal Time (Greenwich Time) can automatically convert to solar time if they know their longitude. I really don't see your problem.
If you want DST, fine with me. I have no trouble with it.
Understood. Fully appreciate as one is over three zones. The idea is to have continuity as you travel from zone to zone going in one direction and not boucing ahead and back. Everyone would understand cross zone and move clock in one direction depending on direction.