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by filoleg
1956 days ago
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I think one practicality of it that you forget is the difficulty for people too, not just for businesses or government entities. For example, people are used to banks always being open 9am to 5pm. With the approach you mentioned, it means that twice a year they will have to shift it. It means you will also have to shift your entire schedule, and calendar, and literally everything. Now think about some shops and places that will NOT be switching it and decide to keep the same hours. Then add-in the fact that some shops already change their hours even with the current system. For example, I have a daily recurring alarm for 7am. Under this proposed system, I will have to manually change it twice a year (while now it is done automatically due to the entire timezone switching twice a year). You will simply get a logistical nightmare, since changing the entire clock is much much simpler than shifting each individual little scheduled item in your life. Tl;dr: while i agree that logically your approach of shifting individual scheduling items to align with the daylight hours makes more logical sense, it makes more practical sense to just switch timezones twice a year for that purpose. |
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At least with respect to updating the alarm, that "logistical nightmare" can't be any worse than what we had before clocks updated themselves. I still remember having to update all clocks manually twice a year. It wasn't a big deal. Someone coming in late or missing an appointment because they forgot to update a clock happened rarely. Maybe it's not the case now, but you used to get multiple warnings reminding you to update your clocks.
> For example, people are used to banks always being open 9am to 5pm. With the approach you mentioned, it means that twice a year they will have to shift it. It means you will also have to shift your entire schedule, and calendar, and literally everything.
With respect to opening and closing hours of banks and shops, for those few people that go near opening or closing hours even in that time of the year, they'll make the mistake that day and either come back later when it's open or otherwise fix their issue that day or at least they won't make the same mistake the next day. The world wouldn't go up in flames because of this.