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Different employers in areas have their own arbitrary start/stop times already, time numbers are already an arbitrary concept, if someone in CA right now is working hours based on NY, when they work relative to the sun won't change, just the numbers. The difference would be in people cold contacting others vs scheduled times. Right now if something is scheduled you have to convert it to your time, the formula for which will vary based on what time zone it is scheduled in. With this change, when reaching out to someone far away, you'd have to figure out if you're contacting them at an appropriate time for their day/night, but that's also inexact because people have different personal cycles anyway.
Working hours being 9am-5pm vs 1900-0300 are just numbers.
On a day in California, where the sun rises at 7 am PST, it would be equivalent to making it 3 pm UTC.
You think people in California are going to be happy waking up at 3 pm, going to work at 5pm-1am, then going to sleep at 7am?
People are angry that they get an extra hour of sleep one night and lose one another. 2 days out of the year.
You really think you're going to sell these people on waking up at 3 pm and going to bed at 7am?
Working hours being 9am-5pm PST vs 9am-5pm PDT are just numbers
DST just tries to shift everyone to a beneficial sun zone for a part of the year.
Depending where you live and mainly how close you are to a time zone line depends if keeping it, getting rid of it, or keeping the current system is beneficial.
Maine could be in it's own time zone as far east as it really is. The idea that Michigan is in the same time zone is absurd. Michigan should be in CST. That would drop them back an hour. If you talked to someone in Michigan they probably hate DST. Their DST should be their current standard time and then they should fall back to CST if they wanted to do the DST switch thing. They would get a lot more sunlight in the morning.
Yes, other than a 1-time adjustment, it's no less arbitrary than the current times they use.
They're right to, it literally causes a rise in deaths, with this that goes entirely away, so yay?
I'm not sure you'd still use am/pm, but yeah. What intrinsic negative is there? Who cares if they have to be at work at the same point relative to the local day/night cycle but it's named something else.
They also come with the baggage of dst and timezones, part of which you list below.
Yeah, this is all dumb, so why not make all of these oddities go away.