[Mountain_Skies]

Almost everyone wants to get rid of the twice annual clock changes but are nearly evenly divided on if DST should be permanent or cease to exist. It's a strange artifact of wanting clock noon to be the midpoint of the workday but also wanting to maximize the hours of daylight after work.

[gjm11]

Who wants clock noon to be the midpoint of the workday? The canonical working hours are 9am to 5pm [Parton 1980] whose midpoint is at 1pm. Many people work earlier and/or later, but my impression is that it's pretty unusual to have the midpoint at noon.

(Schools tend to have earlier times. It's not so unusual for a school's workday to have its midpoint at about noon, I think.)

[brookst]

9-5 sounds so luxurious in today’s 8-6 world where comms start at 7am and wrap up around 9pm.

[snvzz]

I hope you get paid for being on-call those hours.

[globular-toast]

Clock noon already isn't the midpoint of the working day (9-5) for many people. I don't think anyone cares about it being when the sun is at its highest in the sky either. This isn't even something most people know, and it's not even true unless you live on the Greenwich meridian or n*15 degrees east or west. What matters is how early we have to get up in winter vs early we have to go to bed in the summer.

I've always been in favour of keeping the clocks at non-DST all year, but now I have a new proposal: keep them at DST and just hibernate in the winter. Work an hour or two less in the winter when it's miserable.

[snvzz]

>but also wanting to maximize the hours of daylight after work.

Maybe adjust the work schedule to e.g. start at 8 instead of 9?

Rather than mess with the actual clock.

[pseudalopex]

This is a coordination problem. DST was the solution many societies found.

[orthoxerox]

Shouldn't people wanting to maximize the hours of daylight after work work night shifts?

[schrodinger]

Where do I find a software engineering job that has night shifts?

[fragmede]

Remote job for a company in a different time zone

[mdaniel]

Spoken as if 80% of the software engineer workload isn't attending status update meetings to provide updates on why nothing is getting done

[fragmede]

I'm not saying it isn't, but when the 9am scrum meeting is at 4pm your time, you can be quite the night owl!