I mean, we already bombard people in the southern states with snow-based holiday songs for weeks every winter and culturally require them to put fake snow around a northern evergreen species tree in their malls. At some point, enough is enough.
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The local school board had almost universal complaint against it, however this change meant they could stop having teachers driving the buses (massively understaffed).
My kid starting 30 minutes later has been a major pain for work, but since we had no choice but to adapt, I did.
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I didn’t mean to advocate one solution or another in that specific reply. I only meant that if operating under the assumption that chasing the northern sun is desirable, then changing the nominal time and changing how we react to a static view of time are functionally equivalent. I didn’t mean to push the premise.
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Can’t we reach a consensus solution?
(There’s always a relevant XKCD for any given comment thread, but in this case there’s more than one.)
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Some excellent reading on the subject.
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Ah, true. Schools have shown ability to make changes quickly when forced to it by staffing or money (or in your case it sounds like both). I continue to believe that the track record shows, however, that this agility in no way extends to making changes for the benefit of their students.
I wish it were otherwise.
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but what would we do with prime time television?!? it’d have to be as short as blipverts during certain times of the year
Do what you will with DST, but i just want us to go to a standard calendar of 13 months of four weeks each, with the extra 365th day being set aside for a day off.
I also want our clocks to forgo seconds, but instead just show a counter of the number of oscillations of a cesium atom since midnight on 01 January 1970.
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States could already opt for Standard Time year-round. That’s the federal law we already had. Nobody did it but Arizona, leading some to conclude—it doesn’t seem to be popular.
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Yes. And again, that’s almost entirely because business leaders don’t want to be on a different time than other states for “reasons.” Not because standard time doesn’t consistently show higher levels of popularity. Nothing gets done in this country if the oligarchs don’t want it to happen.
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I like the 13-month calendar, but annual events always happen on the same day of the week, so you doom people at birth to a life of Tuesday birthdays, for example.
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Birthday celebrations are a social construct. In my perfect system we could make it so everyone has a birthday on the same day of the year. It could be engineered so as to never clash with other national holidays too.
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I have learned from my children that you celebrate your birthday for the entire month not just the one day. So, it would be fine.
*Sometimes for more than a month if your birthday is in the summer or near a big holiday or whatever other reason to shift when the main celebratory event occurs. All those school kids with July and August birthdays celebrating in June. The ones between Thanksgiving and New Years happening in October.
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This is approaching Soylent levels of efficiency.
Flavor is an unnecessary complication.
But think of all the horoscope writers you’d be putting out of business!
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So wheres the downside?
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You will find it where you least expect it. Be sure to pay attention to finances and don’t trust a new acquaintance who seems overly eager.
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We very rarely do birthdays, mostly the big ones. Sweet 16 for our daughter and then 18, 21, 30, and now coming up on 40 for her. That will probably be a surprise.
We have friends that treat birthdays like national holidays for every age. If they could get a parade permit they would.
They need their special day so group birthdays would never fly.
