“Daylight savings time is like cutting a few inches off one end of a blanket, sewing it onto the other end and then saying you have a longer blanket.”
- Or something like that. Usually attributed to some Native American leader or something.
Sure, except your body moves a little bit on the bed over the course of the year. So by adjusting the blanket you’re adding more coverage to your body for that portion of the year.
Standard time should be year round. Let’s stop fucking with global circadian rhythms.
Eh I’d prefer permanent daylight saving. Give me that extra hour of light in the afternoon, I like dark mornings.
But the economy…
Good point, why don’t we all just put all of Earths debt into one persons debt (Elon Musk for example) and everyone will be forgiven for all of debts? Something similar has already been done cca 2000 years ago, why not again?
He’s [Elon] not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!
True
In the US we use Standard Time for three months of the year. Please don’t fuck with 9 months of my circadian rhythms.
*saving
So, this actually provides an excellent example of a common misconception. It’s daylight saving time, not daylight savings. Because it’s not like a savings account for time, instead, it’s the time for saving daylight. Daylight-saving time.
So a more accurate reversal might be “night-heavy losing time”.
In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.
So calling it “losing time” is apt.
There’s an 80s movie called Babes in Toyland (Keanu Reeves best film, IMO) where the people of Toyland saved so much daylight one year that they never had to have nighttime again (until the villain tried to plunge them into eternal night time).
Damn, while I made the meme it wondered why it was “savings”, because I was sure it is. Since English isn’t my first language I concluded there must be some arcane reason for it.
Thanks for clarifying
because I was sure it is. Since English isn’t my first language
To be fair, it’s an exceptionally common mistake. Even native speakers get it wrong a lot of the time. I think it’s because most people do think it’s referencing something similar to a “savings account”.
Still, I could of known.
(See what I did there?)
Thanks, I hate it.
Think of the compounding interest on those savings though
I think it’s night heavy spending space, no?
My thought as well. But since space and time are one thing, night heavy spending energy?
My understanding of physics ends at “things tend to fall down”.
this meme gives big feddit.org vibes.
Guilty, I guess
