I have long believed that literal clock time is mostly irrelevant. Set a
time and stick to it. Individual businesses, schools, etc. pick their
office hours anyway.
China has the right idea; they have 1 time zone for the whole country so
you don't have to even think about what zone you're in. We could do the
same thing here, it would just mean that local stuff happens at
different times than what might be "traditional".
bp
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On 12/30/2024 9:29 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Explain something to me about the debate over daylight saving time.
Why can’t schools, businesses, etc. simply change their hours if they
want more daylight before or after school and work? Do people want
everything to run on the same mandated hours so that parents work
times and kids’ daycare school are in sync?
I have in the past worked for companies that went on “summer hours” to
maximize the daylight hours for other activities after work.
Basically, double DST. Perhaps the surprising thing about it was I
don’t think the company gained anything, they did it because employees
liked it.
Also, several of the companies I worked for had “flex hours”.
Typically this gave employees 1 or 2 hours flexibility on their start
time as long as they put in their 8 hours and everyone was in the
office for some core period like 10-4.
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