We're Getting Rid Of Daylight Savings Time
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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.
I understand, it's down to personal preference in the end. It just seems silly to me that people insist that high noon be exactly at 12 PM, it never actually happens and it's impractical unless you live in South-East Asia where people get up at 5 AM. The West has a relatively late daily schedule so late daylight only makes sense.
You are leaving out farmers. They get-up-and-go because the herds and the crops get-up-and-grow. Solar time is all that nature cares about, and farmers have no option in the matter.
I also know that where I worked (industry in a major city), many office workers would deliberately rise at 4 AM in order to beat the morning rush to get in at 6 AM, and leave by 2 PM to get ahead of the afternoon rush. (Or they do it to coordinate with team members scattered across the continent.) I had to get up pretty early even to simply stick with the normal hours.
Actually, my beef is with financial institutions that are not 24/7. If you are trying to handle an international problem, it is infuriating in the extreme to dial up a service number and get brushed off by office hours. Emergencies don't wait for office hours, especially when they are happening halfway around the world.
Fair point