Post #840792
2026-03-29 05:59 UTC
Replies (17)
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@cojajo@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 07:19
@rpsu@mas.to What if we all stop moving the clock?
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@ysbreker@idlethumbs.social 2026-03-29 07:20
@rpsu@mas.to what if I really like daylight savings day? I don't need sunlight at 5 in the morning. I want it in the evening though.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-03-29 07:32
@rpsu@mas.to It's the UK that's blocking change because they have a border in Ireland. We can't have two time zones in Ireland.
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@cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-29 07:38
@rpsu@mas.to I was against daylight saving anyway, but nothing has made me more angry about it than working on a large, cross atlantic game dev project. Because NA move the clocks three weeks earlier, any meeting series booked by an American moves- but European-booked meetings dont move till the end of March. Daylight saving went from a one day nuisance to a three week event of meeting clashes and frantic reorganisation.
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@FrutigerAero00@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 07:38
@rpsu@mas.to Why is daylight time bad?
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@layn75@mastodon.online 2026-03-29 07:53
I'm still so salty that it should've stopped in the EU in 2019, latest 2021, but the measure has just stalled since then. Even though most seem to agree it should end. Urgh
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@retrosponge@kind.social 2026-03-29 08:01
@rpsu@mas.to I live in BC in Canada and right before we put the clocks forward a few weeks ago they announced that it was the last time we were doing it. I wish they'd just left them alone entirely, but I'm glad we're done with this nonsense.
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@Kerplunk@mastodon.scot 2026-03-29 08:03
@rpsu@mas.to Today is the EU-wide why-on-earth-we-do-it - day, when we move clocks for no reason, but just because our governing system does not know how to stop it. That is a NO Brainer, the political class are too busy chasing their own advantage to even think about the Idiocy and costs of preserving the world war 2 daylight saving acts.
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@electricfusionQ@muenchen.social 2026-03-29 08:08
@rpsu@mas.to A small inconvenience for you. For people living on the most west or most east point of the time zone it makes a huge difference. The only really logical thing to do would be to shrink the CET. Spain moves into the same time zone as POR or GB, Northmacedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland (?) are moving to the time zone of FIN and GR. Before this didn´t happen talking about an abolition of the daylight saving time is pointless.
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@turbulent@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 08:35
@rpsu@mas.to I actually thought about it hard recently and realised that while I hate changing the timezone I actually like bright mornings in winter and bright evenings in summer. That being said, everyone has their own preference. So I think the society will not be ready to abolish time changes as long as we are not ready to admit that everyone has a different biological clock and we all don't need to work 8-16 all year round and it's fine for business to change opening times once in a while.
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@paulmckrcu@social.kernel.org 2026-03-29 08:36
@rpsu@mas.to Check the law carefully. The daylight-saving-time proponents on West Coast USA stopped an initiative some years back by redirecting from permanent standard time to permanent daylight-savings time. Most people (myself included) didn't care which time, as long as time didn't change. Except that USA Federal law allows any state to unilaterally revert back to standard time, but an act of USA Congress is requited for a state to move to permanent daylight-savings time. Which meant that the resulting state laws had no effect. Clever, these hobbits... :-/
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@josemachete79@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 08:39
@rpsu@mas.to don't mention here in Spain we are in the same timezone as Berlin since Tia Paca times, so he could wish Hitler happy bday without having to worry about being late or early. Absolut BS.
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@shadowdancer@mstdn.social 2026-03-29 09:05
@rpsu@mas.to Abolish clocks altogether and just use unix timestamps.
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@pipanella@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 09:12
@rpsu@mas.to Mietin tänään ~70 vuotiaana kiivetessäni keittiöjakkaralle kääntääkseni seinäkellon viisareita, miten muutenkin kiireiset kotiavut/-hoitajat ehtii käännellä asiakkaidensa kelloja, iäkkäämpien kuin minä, huonokuntoisten joilla ei enää mitään asiaa keittiöjakkaroille, ketkä eivät enää edes näe ja senioripuhelimessakin kello laitettava uuteen aikaan.. Kun kaikki ei edes tällaiseen kykene. Paristot voi vaihtaa sormituntumalla tjms. mutta viisareita ei lasien takaa..
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-29 10:47
@rpsu@mas.to Today's one of the two days of the year when you're always an hour late or in advance without any reason. Since EU affirmed that every single states has responsibility to stop it, we just keep doing what any blind bureacracy does: repeat this meaningless ritual and tell it could be stopped.
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@theowashere@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 11:07
@rpsu@mas.to I was really happy when I saw my time table for the upcoming summer semester. Means I don't have to wake up at 7 but instead can sleep till 8... Well.... That assumption was on winter time.... Just can't win...
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@macronencer@mastodon.scot 2026-03-29 14:57
@rpsu@mas.to I know there are plenty of arguments on both sides to consider, but one that people sometimes overlook is that clock changes often reveal software bugs — which potentially range from a minor inconvenience to actually dangerous. Personally I would prefer permanent standard time so that for the majority of people, the Sun position roughly matches the clock. Permanent DST seems to me like a deliberate rejection of nature.