On the DST shenanigans
Mar. 17th, 2007 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoThe problem: Daylight Saving Time is a legal construct, governed in the US by the whim of Congress. After 20 years of a stable formula, they changed it.
The sensible answer: abolish it, and simply ask people to change their hours instead. (If work expects you in at 8, change that to 7. Keep a set of summer hours rather than changing the clocks.)
The answer that could actually be adopted: When Congress futzes with the clocks, they should guarantee that the change in algorithm is good for N years, and will give at least 2 years warning between passing a change and making it effective.At least that way it can be planned for a little more carefully.
The sensible answer: abolish it, and simply ask people to change their hours instead. (If work expects you in at 8, change that to 7. Keep a set of summer hours rather than changing the clocks.)
The answer that could actually be adopted: When Congress futzes with the clocks, they should guarantee that the change in algorithm is good for N years, and will give at least 2 years warning between passing a change and making it effective.At least that way it can be planned for a little more carefully.
side effects
Date: 2007-03-17 02:33 pm (UTC)The clocks on all the TV station's digital program guides are also still an hour off. I'm probably the only person in the country to notice since nobody but me gets broadcast HDTV and can see the embedded guide. Apparently the networks don't care since half the time they don't enter the data anyway.