@benjojo
but summer time is astronomically wrong :P

@benjojo or we could all agree to work 7-3 like my parents did.

And like, yeah, shifting the timezone is easier than getting everyone to change their opening hours and such.

But what if it turns out that a couple decades after we shift the timezone, everyone's working hours will slowly creep towards 10-6 or 11-7? And then we try to fix that by shifting the timezone again, and the opening hours shift again, and we end up in this ridiculous cycle of time of day becoming meaningless?

@benjojo you sure it isn't linked to staying up late, then going to bed at the last moment before it starts getting bright, then waking up in time to go to work?

@benjojo I keep my servers in UTC time, so there's literally nothing good about DST for me

@benjojo Ha, yep, didn't comprehend correctly. I'm in EST so my timestamps are always 4-5 hours off UTC...

@benjojo @nbailey I keep mine in Nepal time.

@benjojo i actually don't understand this - surely it's easier for people to work 8-4 or 10-6 instead of messing around with the very definition of time?

(and society already accepted this! most offices workers i know have some form of flexitime in their workplace, even those working in government or healthcare.)

@benjojo lol i read the other replies and seems everyone is saying the same thing

@benjojo I hope not!

@benjojo be the change you want in the world. Once I can’t take my kid to and from school anymore, I might start working 8-5 all the time, or maybe shift even earlier. It’d work from home, so at least I don’t have to drive home after dark anymore.

@benjojo Summertime is the only reasonable timezone for Germany