On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures

So far there are only a few comments here, but I am surprised to see they actually have differing opinions. I always thought <i>everyone</i> universally hated DST, <i>especially</i> programmers, but apparently that&#x27;s not the case at all.<p>I personally hate it because I&#x27;d rather be on DST year round so I get more sun in the winter afternoons.

I&#x27;m in central Europe.<p>I sincerely do not understand the problem people have with changing a single hour in a single day during a weekend in the year.

I’m not sure why we ever moved off year-round DST as we used for a few years in the US. Yes it makes for dark winter mornings in the North. But, honestly, there’s not a lot of sunlight to spread around in Boston or Chicago in the middle of winter anyway.

All you people living in the US complaining about DST thinking only you have a problem with it.<p>Well, guess what, you wouldn&#x27;t have imagined a tiny fraction of people on the other end of the world too have a problem with it.<p>When DST is in effect, engineers supporting US from India work from 5:30pm to 2:30am. When DST ends in November the guys have to work from 6:30pm to 3:30am. And this is just for east coast. Granted it is just one hour. But it does make a lot of difference when the travel back to home takes 1hr and by the time you are trying to fall asleep, the Sun is shining bright outside the window.<p>And I have worked in this manner for 5 continuous years in continuous night shifts until I shifted recently to one of the (very few) companies who have day shift jobs in my area of specialization and simultaneously not having a shitty pay. I used to hate going to office between November to March, no matter how much I did like my job and the technology. And so I used to treasure those work-from-home days.<p>Edit: Added formatting, correct error and added some context.

I was trying to find something to illustrate the practical implications of this, but couldn&#x27;t find exactly what I wanted so came up with this:<p><pre><code> Toronto San Francisco Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset June 21 (DST) 5:00~5:36 am 9:02~9:38 pm 5:16~5:48 am 8:34~9:06 pm December 21 7:15~7:47 am 4:43~5:16 pm 6:52~7:21 am 4:54~5:23 pm December 21 (DST) 8:15~8:47 am 5:43~6:16 pm 7:52~8:21 am 5:54~6:23 pm </code></pre> The ranges are for civil twilight [1] which is basically the time it&#x27;s still bright enough to see outside.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timeanddate.com&#x2F;astronomy&#x2F;civil-twilight.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timeanddate.com&#x2F;astronomy&#x2F;civil-twilight.html</a>

Every six months, the same damn thinkpieces are written.

It&#x27;s really not something I&#x27;ve ever found myself bothered by. I&#x27;ve only learned in the past few years that some people actually have a problem with it, to the point of calling it &quot;madness&quot; apparently.<p>Really people? This seems to be more a symptom of complainers needing something to complain about and clickbait machines churning than anything else.

We decided the solution to specific problems (like kids waiting for the school bus in the dark), was to move the goal posts for everyone, instead of having specific institutions make their own seasonal adjustments to their schedules.<p>Let&#x27;s throw the whole system out and start over. 10 hours in a day and 100 minutes in an hour. :)

Switch the clocks once, halfway from 11 to 10:30, and be done with it forever. :&#x2F;

If you could stack rank the problems of the world, it would become clear that there shouldn’t be time to write articles complaining about daylight savings time.

Meanwhile the aviation industry said &quot;to hell with it&quot; and doesn&#x27;t even use time zones, let alone DST!

DST is so disruptive to my children&#x27;s life and thus my life. I should move back to Arizona. Curse you DST!