“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”
“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”
There is no wrong time. It’s arbitrary numbers it doesn’t matter what you call the number at.
Wrong. Noon should be the hour closest to the sun’s peak.
Just hang your clock up with 1 at the top then? Why not start the day at 1? What is magic about 12?
Well, there’s a lot of magic in 12, but I would say noon is more of a 0 and that’s the most magic number of all.
Why? The name you assign that makes no damn difference. Also is not consistent by latitude. Or the boundaries of time zones for that matter. Or the time of the year.
It makes a difference to align my internal clock with solar activity. The middle of the day (noon) must be the middle of the day (sun’s peak). DST sucks.
Hope you don’t move. You must live at the equator?
Seriously, you clock is yours the number doesn’t matter. Other people are on all their own rhythms the numbers are arbitrary.
If you like what ever noon means to you, the name and number assigned at that time doesn’t mean anything.
Latitude doesn’t affect when the Sun is at the peak, it affects how high the sun is when it is at the peak.
And when I am i Iceland what is noon?
Still when the sun it at it’s peak. Even in places beyond the (an)arctic circle(s), the sun does move up and down in the sky over a 24 hour-period, even when it doesn’t go below/above the horizon for many months. (Tho, it might move left to right “more” on many of those days.)
The peak of not at all in the sky? Either way your noon is whatever you want it to be. It is your body trying why do you care what they call it?
My point is length of day changes, and people will get up later/earlier depending on how they want to deal with or feel about it.
I find this so insane that people think there should be a “noon” when the way that feels to then is very different depending on where they live.
You want to slap noon on a particular time, feel free. It’s an arbitrary label. Nothing more.
“Your” clock is bad, usually ranging from a 23 to 25 hour cycle naturally. The sun is what constantly adjusts it to match 24 hours.
The people with a natural inner clock of more than 24 hours (those are the majority btw) need the sunrise to tell their bodies “hey, you might think its still time to sleep because you are on hours #25 of your day/night cycle, but it’s time to wake up” and the sunset for “it might feel like there is still another hour of day but it’s time to get tired and got to sleep”.
Moving sunset/-rise an hour back really screws with their inner clocks. And “I just feel that one hour more of light in the evening is better” (the usual argument of the daylight savinf time as standard time side) does not beat actual biology and damning more than half of the people to a constant state of light sleep deprivation.