[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> The whole reason DST exists is because people can't decouple themselves
> from what "time" things are "supposed to" happen.  These same people sit
> in traffic for two hours a day starting at 0630 local time to be at work
> by 0830, spend most of their "lunch hour" sitting in more traffic
> because everyone else is taking lunch -at the same time-, and then spend
> another two hours trying to get home.

D'C|ckoo has a song about that.

> These folks actually have to -mess with the clock- in order to make
> better use of solar energy.  They wouldn't know what to make of getting
> up at 3am (goodness, that's -early!-).  They don't see the designations
> as the arbitrary graduations they are[0].

"Temporally challenged"?

> So, yeah.  I'd like it.  I think it'd help people see the silliness
> inherent in synchronized schedules.  I don't think you'll ever convince
> Joe Sixpack that 3pm is "late at night", regardless of what the moon and
> sun say, though.  That'd take a generation to settle out.


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