<<On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:21:12 -0500, World Time Zone via tz <[email protected]> said:

> Maybe we should leave clocks and time zones alone and just shift
> work, school, and service times by 30 minutes?

It's much easier to change clocks than it is to change all the laws,
regulations, and contracts.

Effectively that's what all of standardized time is, at the government
level: a rule that tells officials and courts how to interpret a time
given in a statute or other legal document.  These could be written
with respect to UTC, or to local sunrise and sunset, but rarely are as
that would be an even greater inconvenience for most people than
having to adjust the dwindling number of clocks that don't change
automatically.

-GAWollman

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