I think the right concept handle for this is body time.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing, etc.
Experience of DST varies wildly, particularly according to latitude. Obvious arguments in one place are often absurd in another.
And you’re a week late. The Aussies will have another view.
Took a while for the cat-who-lives-with-us to adjust to us feeding him an hour differently. Body time for the win!
Daylight Savings Time is a brilliant (mad)hack solving an otherwise utterly intractable coordination problem.
People adapt to all sorts of business hour weirdnesses. e.g. late opening (or entirely closed) on Sundays. In the UK it’s often early-closing on a Wednesday and late-hours on a Thursday. Folks will cope.
e.g. Beeminder could set office hours and the world would adapt. You want help? We’re open this hour on alternate Thursdays. Soup Nazi rules. Nanny bee knows best.
If many businesses were to not start opening until solar noon, shopping patterns would adapt. The coordination roughly takes care of itself, workers in those businesses might self-distribute across more time, reducing rush-hour pressures, etc.
shift their activities earlier in the day so as not to waste so much daylight by sleeping in hours past dawn.
Farming communities, of course, run by daylight in any case, whenever possible. The entire province of Saskatchewan doesn’t change time, for instance. Neither does India, and it’s pretty big. The nearer you are to the equator, the less sense it makes. And of course there’s bits of places that do and don’t adhere to it – iirc there’s a roughly concentric chunk of Arizona that does/doesn’t/does adhere to the general North American rule.
There’s also massive weirdnesses like Spain, where they’re officially on the same time as Germany for co-ordination/loyalty purposes, but in practice run their meals and siestas more according to body time.
Sure, it makes life a living hell for computer programmers.
I only learned relatively recently that there’s an API for that. Tracks daylight savings conversions by date and lat/long location. Conventional wisdom is that in any application that matters (e.g. data warehousing) you need to store both local time and some absolute timestamp.
As for transport, with a smoothed notion of rush hour, more trains etc available at various times, enabling more spread rather than more concentration.
And the brilliance of the Coronavirus! Oh my goodness, what a leveller. Work from home, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4F-pXvLWk4
And the idea that people could just choose on their own to wake up earlier when the days start getting longer is all wrong. I mean, yes, you can personally do that, but it does you no good unless everyone else (like the rest of your ultimate frisbee team) does it too.
Gosh, I was blessed in my last proper job. Almost never ever used an alarm. Woke up when I did, made my way to the office, etc. Expected my team to do the same. That’s what daybreak is for.
