Having a single time zone doesn't force people to get up in the middle of the night. There's no reason that shifts need to start at the same time throughout a time zone.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST) It think that's the key point. Standard time is great for communication and coordination, but it shouldn't control our lives. I hope the people in western China aren't forced to get up in the middle of the night for work, and try to get to sleep an hour before sunset just because Beijing dictated a single time zone. If one was living where the clock corresponded fairly closely to the sun, it seems that logically you'd generally want to go to bed at 20:00 and get up at 04:00. I suppose some do, but it's difficult the way our society is structured. As far as working hours go, I'd like to see a lot more flexibility and variety. Having everyone working the same 8-5 causes immense waste of time and resources just due to traffic. Regardless, nobody reacts well to a sudden shift of an hour. I presume dairy farmers who don't like getting kicked in the head do not impose these on their cows. sas On 9/18/2018 11:43, Tony Thigpen wrote: > The problem is not as much the times zones, as it is the way we work. > Time zones are (mostly) tied to Solar Time, which is another way to > say "the sun is directly overhead at noon". While our jobs revolve > around noon, our lives do not. > > For example, then '8 to 5' job has 4 hours before noon and 5 hours > after noon. But, if there are 12 hours of daylight, we have 3 of those > hours before work and 4 after work. The problem then is that we spend > those early 3 hours getting ready for work in our homes where it does > not matter that it is daylight out. After work, it's a different > story. We come home, though some work clothes on and want to work (or > play) outside until dark. Then we come inside, turn our lights on, and > do whatever until it's time for bed. > > Farmers have always been light centered. They got up at daybreak and > worked sometimes several hours before then had breakfast. > > We really need to get out of the '8-5' work times. While outside work > needs to be daylight centered, we could make our standard workday > '6-3' and a lot more people would be happy with the available daylight > after work. > > Tony Thigpen > > Mike Schwab wrote on 09/18/2018 11:19 AM: >> Well, there are problems in China since they use Bejing time across >> the country and have a 3 hour difference at the Afghanistan border. >> But essentially, the U.S. Eastern, Central, and Mountain times are one >> time zone as far as TVs are concerned. >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:43 AM Paul Gilmartin >> <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
