Posted November 05, 2015
DaCostaBR: It just started again this year here in Brazil, but whenever I hear about it from other places in the world I mostly see vitriol towards it, if you are one the people who hate it, why do you?
1. Having to wake up one hour earlier when daylight saving time kicks in sucks. 2. 12:00 is supposed to be around the time when the sun is at its peak, and 00:00 when the night is the darkest (that's why it is called "midnight", as it is in the middle of the night). Shifting the noon and midnight changes that.
3. People like me who work internationally, it messes up calendar invitations. For instance, now all the recurring calendar invitations (meetings) that our Indian partners have arranged have shifted by one hour (earlier), because India doesn't do that silly clock shifting shit. Now some of those meetings overlap with other (local) meetings, and we have to agree again who changes their meeting times.
And since e.g. US changes the time on different dates than EU countries (those US states that do), this kind of change takes place four times per year between US <=> EU. I think you should ask your boss to allow you to go work one hour earlier so that you can leave work one hour earlier, or maybe apply for a night shift. No need to force everyone to change their time because of your personal preferences.
If it was really such a good idea that we can have lots of daylight after work, then I presume it would be common that everyone goes to work 3am and gets back home at noon or so. Then you'd still have lots of sunlight after work, without shifting the clocks.
Shifting the clock is simply stupid, causing nothing but inconvenience.
Post edited November 06, 2015 by timppu