• TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t understand why it never occurred to anyone that they could just change the times they do things instead of changing the clock

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      9 months ago

      Pretty sure it did, and would lead to conversations like “Oh by the way boss, for the next 6 months I’ll be coming in an hour late. You guys are cool with flex time, right?”

      • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Me: As long as you leave an hour later why do I give a shit.

        Probably why I’m not the boss of anything.

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      9 months ago

      Technically, that’s sorta what we do… We all agree to make everything one hour off, including the clock.

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      9 months ago

      It would cause disruptions because of business hours inconsistently changing.

      You know your suppliers business hours, they don’t change. The clock changes, but your supplier still opens at 9am, you know when you’re working they’re open.

      If it were trivial to accomplish individually, then you could tell your boss that after the time change you’ll be coming into the office at 10am instead of 9am and negate any ill effects from the time change. If place of employment is cool with this, then you make this change right now. But most people have to conform to what the rest of their industry is doing.

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      9 months ago

      …Right? Like, if you want daylight at the end of your work day, just start work earlier in the day.

      Instead, we have the tyranny of night owls who cannot wake up at a decent hour wanting to move clock noon wildly away from solar noon just to pamper their solipsistic needs.

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      9 months ago

      Potato tomato.

      You wouldn’t doing the same thing either way so what difference does it make?

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      9 months ago

      DST was established in the context of anemic government trying to show extensive reach/control over the economy at a time where it had very little (arguably it still does today but only because most governments have matured to represent their most powerful class). As if to say “We determine the clocks that industry schedules by”