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Forget Daylight Saving, We Should Adopt a Single, Universal Time, Scientists Say
As those in the US had to come to terms with the timezone shuffle once again this week, the "Why do we do daylight saving anyway?" discussion reared its inevitable head, as it does every year.
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Terrible idea. Universal clock would put a good part of the world in the dark all "day".
I lived in the far north (north of the arctic circle) for a few years. Went to work in the dark. Worked someplace that had no windows. Went home in the dark. I didn't see sunlight for at least a couple of months out of the year, then flip it in the summer when it doesn't get dark..
Wintertime, I wanted to sleep all the time. Summertime, I couldn't sleep. We are diurnal animals. An ok thought experiment, but this solution is worse than the "problem".
Indeed we are diurnal. I think people who think otherwise want to live in a binary world. Much simpler. I avoid people like that. They want not to be natural.
No.
Just because everyone is working off the same clock, doesn't mean everyone is going through their "day" at the same time. That's actually part of the point. It would force people to stop using the traditional times for things. Traditional times insist people use a "close but not quite right" clock, being off their natural cycle by and hour or so. Prior to the standard 24 timezones there were hundreds of timezones, because diffrent towns started their days at different times. Still they all insisted on using the same clock number for that time. It worked great for them but was impossible for everyone else to keep track of. If instead, everyone agreed to use the same global "timezone". It would free up everyone to start and end their day when it made sense for them; At the same time, make it easy when coordinating things over distances.