general
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
for those who don't know
we have a sub-state
that in some ways, is an "independent country"
similar to how Canada is
UTC/GMT/Zulu are all bad
I hate the Boston is pushing to move off EST, and join Maine and Nova Scotia on Atlantic Time
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 I remember hearing that Michigan is in eastern time because they wanted to keep it on the same timezone as NYC to keep a constant time for shipping across the great lakes. And so it was a massive jump from living in the UP to Rhode Island and the sky gets light at like 4:30am here
yeah i live in the next county over
Can we do daylight savings but worse. Instead of 1 change, every month you get a marginal 10 minute change
I think we should vote yearly, which time zone we align with locally
±1 in each direction from the prior year
follow a sineusoid or something so it goes back and forth
Ontario agreed to do it if New york and Quebec did
I forget which blew it for me, I think New york
This was like 10 years ago or something
we've passed an anti-daylight savings bill twice now
I suspect it'll get ratified this time
I don't hate DST, because I think it achieves what it sets out to do
Okay but what if israel says it is actually a good thing first
will it pass then
but I get why people hate it
It fucks me up for a day every year because I always forget despite knowing it is that day the day prior
but then it does not matter
I think people normalize to sunrise/sunset more than they care to admit
I normalize to when I go to sleep + 7-8 hours
did I go to sleep at 4am, well hell I am waking up at noon
and that even if we get rid of DST, there will be some societal drift each way (which there is already since DST is not granular)
I am going to bed now so I can wake up at 6
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I think people normalize to sunrise/sunset more than they care to admit
im telking ya, that and a combination of some UTC thing
It does make a difference here, because it is pitch black at 6am and then it shifts and it is no longer pitch black then
but that only affects me seldomly
xbrox needs dayling savings half a year in the artic circle
Honestly fuck it
instead of just verticle slice timezones
horizontal ones too
make time grid
that fixes it
No, you give coordinates like UTC + (3,5)