DST
This weekend, we in Europe made the transition to Summer Time (DST) again.
This change always means at least a week of adjusting for my family and each year I'm left wondering what the current benefits of this scheme are.
The hour of daylight you supposedly save can also be 'saved' by simply adjusting your habits during the spring and summer (starting work an hour early and leaving an hour early, goint to bed later, ..).
I simply cannot find one compelling reason to still have DST in effect and I think it's time to reconsider this practice (which throws many people and some computer systems off). So, a call to return to Natural Time is in place on this blog1
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8 comments postedIt's not possible for everyone to adjust their habits on their own; plenty of businesses are utterly inflexible with the hours at which their employees must work.
The idea of daylight savings is that it forces recalcitrant businesses to adjust their employees hours without even knowing it, so that most people have a chance to get evenings with daylight during summer.
What do you need a week to adjust for?
Honestly... once you reset your watches (and most of them doit automatically by now), what is the trouble???
Watches and devices aren't the problem. It's my family's biological clock that's acting up. For instance, my kids get hungry first at 10h and for dinner at 17h, you can set you watch by that.
Same for the adults, I have a pretty fixed wake-sleep cycle that's completely off now and it takes us about a week for our biological clocks to catch up to the new timezone.
I actually 'love' DST: one hour more, to sit outsite in my small garden, relaxing after work. I am not able to achive this by changing my habbits.
My solution: No "natural time" anymore!. Let's have DST over the whole year. :-)
Agreed, let's have DST the whole year. Just as long as time is left untouched from now on. Forever! Don't touch time, stay away form it!
That would work fine for me too, as long as we don't change it twice a year!
We're in BST now. Not DST. Your blog post is wrong.
DST is Daylight Saving Time, the current timezone I'm in is CEST (Central European Summer Time) or UTC+0200.