miljko
miljko

I thought we got rid of this nonsense last year, but apparently not. Remember, it’s never too late to resurect Swatch Internet Time.

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JohnBrady
JohnBrady

@miljko I've been doing and enjoying the experience of setting my alarm to sunrise every day. An unanticipated benefit: the switch to daylight savings means hardly anything. Of course, I'm retired, and it would be a whole other situation if I had to be at work at 8:30. They used to say that DST was "for the farmers"; that never made much sense to me -- farmers more than anyone have to live by the solar day whatever the clock says.

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JohnBrady
JohnBrady

@miljko Here I learned about Swatch Time, which I'd never heard of. Cool! At the other extreme there are those who'd like to return to purely local time (noon is when the sun is directly overhead) and leave it to GPS and our phones to co-ordinate all the scheduling issues.

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miljko
miljko

@JohnBrady Both of those are preferable to the current mishmash, and even compatible with each other. Local time everywhere with its own interpretation of Swatch Time that's there for coordination sounds good to me!

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ReaderJohn
ReaderJohn

@miljko I have two grudges against former Purdue President (and former Indiana governor, and Reagan budget hawk) Mitch Daniels:

  1. Selling Purdue's radio station WBAA (Indiana's oldest station, by the way) to WFYI in Indianapolis, which promptly ceased serious local arts coverage and lowered the station's technical quality;
  2. Nagging the legislature as governor until they passed Daylight Savings Time.
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