Yeah, I had tickets once for a concert in Fort Wayne, IN and missed the
beginning because I didn’t realize that part of Indiana is on Eastern time.
Aren’t there some countries where the clocks are 30 minutes offset?
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2024 12:14 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] daylight saving time
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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