Daylight Savings Time is anti‐​health, anti‐​science, and anti‐​familywww.cato.org/commentary/enddst
424 sats \ 5 comments \ @k00b 4 Nov 2023 tech
TIL DST is motivated by energy conservation
Originally adopted in 1918 during World War I, reinstated during World War II, and finally made permanent under the Uniform Time Act in 1966, DST was intended to (somehow) save electricity by requiring less light in the evenings. However, real‐​world studies repeatedly have shown that DST not only doesn’t conserve energy, but may actually waste it.
Personally, I'm most enraged when accounting for DST in code.
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538 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 4 Nov 2023
Personally, I'm most enraged when accounting for DST in code.
Yea this lol
I was always under the impression it was to support farming, though I don’t know how exactly
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 4 Nov 2023
I had the same impression for some reason lol
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @9ener1c 4 Nov 2023
It was supposedly to allow farmers to take advantage of the brightness available in the early morning summer hours.
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427 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 5 Nov 2023
Electricity consumption percentage by light bulbs have went down dramatically during last 100 years. So, even with assumption that DST made sense back in a day, it doesn't today.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @okpj 4 Nov 2023
Time travel is impossible unless authorized and enforced by the government.
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