EST should be -4 not -5. this is fucking reactionary and you can’t expect me to remember this shit. fuck congress for ruining this possibility after passing it.

  • davel [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Standard time was the standard: noon was when sun was directly overhead. Daylight saving time is revisionist bullshit.

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      gif emoji nerd ajeitando óculos Actually that would be when the sun is on the meridian. The sun can never be directly overhead unless you are in the tropics

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      Standard time should be treated like the four humors or the plum pudding model of the atom; It was the best we had for a while, but it’s obsolete since we discovered a better way

      Reject tradition, embrace modernity

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        Daylight savings time only saves daylight in the context of you spending your entire day working and being spared the paltry scraps of the day, and outside of a 40+ hour workweek is a meaningless shift of numbers on a clock that only serves to move noon and midnight away from any kind of astronomical or biological signifiers

        Reject modernity, embrace tradition, demand to work less for moneygrubbing assholes