Forever wintertime or summertime?
Day 3,994, 09:19
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by Legendardisch
The real-life government of the Netherlands was ordered by the bureaucratic monster that is the EU to decide between permanent wintertime or summertime. Why that came up in Juncker's mind is still a mystery
What's clear is that the demand has boiled up a discussion and made Mark Rutte indecisive, to the point of them planning a referendum.
So what should we do?
Personally, we should stay with the original time, wintertime. Or, we should just keep on moving that clock back and forth.
Oh, and don't forget to move your clock back tonight, it may be last time after all.
Sincerely,
King Legendardisch
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#TeamSummertime
Long light summer evenings are better than light winter mornings.
Amen
Heard some "sleep experts" are in favour of wintertime. Otherwise you'd have extremely dark mornings and we can't really cope with that, they say. Anyway, personally I'd like summertime for the reasons you just gave. Love long, dark winter mornings.
How do you get out of your bed? I would prefer the sun to rise earlier in winter...
Maybe a 7 am sunrise time zone is an awesome idea. It would mean moving the clock forward or backward a few minutes each night though. 😛
But with digital clocks that is not a major issue. It could simply be programmed that way.
And you also would get your long summer nights, as the sun doesn't rise at 5:17 (Amsterdam) as it does now at the longest day in daylight saving time, actually even lengthening our summer nights. 😉
Moving clocks to counter the months might be a good idea! But if we would choose wintertime now it would mean that in the summer it would get light at 4:17 in Amsterdam!
winter time is the standard time so if we decide to go to a standard again for the whole year there is really only 1 time it can be.
'standard' time is really arbitrary as well. We decided once that standard time is 12:00 when the sun is at its highest point, but this differs greatly throughout the months.
if we really wanted to have the sun at it's highest at 12 we should be on the same time as england. (which is technically our timezone)
I'm in favor of changing twice a year: the best of both worlds. During summertime longer evenings, in wintertime earlier light in the morning.
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