I thought we got rid of this nonsense last year, but apparently not. Remember, it’s never too late to resurect Swatch Internet Time.
I thought we got rid of this nonsense last year, but apparently not. Remember, it’s never too late to resurect Swatch Internet Time.
@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.
@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.
@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!
@miljko I have two grudges against former Purdue President (and former Indiana governor, and Reagan budget hawk) Mitch Daniels: