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A map of the world with vertical lines marking the time zones from UTC-12 to UTC+12. It has a legend:

Wrong Time

“Natural time zones” are 15° in longitude. Land in red observes a time other than the zone it lies within. Smaller islands depict their 12 nautical mile territorial sea, for visual effect. In some cases this includes a state’s archipelagic waters.

Plate Carrée projection, WGS-84 datum. December 2018 © International Mapping, all rights reserved.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The thing with DST is it’s not just a matter of personal opinion. Studies have been done on it, and they universally come down on the idea that it’s really bad. Heart attacks, traffic crashes, and suicides all go up as a result of DST. Economic productivity goes down. Here are a handful:

    I’m particularly a fan of the penultimate one linked there, which states:

    In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

    But also, you know I didn’t make this map, right? It’s just map that paints places in red if their solar noon is more than half an hour away from their clock’s noon. Which is the “right” way to do things unless your goal is abolition of time zones entirely in favour of adapting working hours to the local conditions without adjusting clocks.

    • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      10 days ago

      You’re so wound up about making your point and defending your point of view that you’re not actually comprehending my comments. It’s your map in the sense that you are presenting it to us, who authored it isn’t really relevant to this discussion.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Bruh, I just presented it because it was cool. You’re the one getting hung up on whether the fairly basic premise of the chart is the best premise that could have been used.

        But yes, that DST is bad is a hill I was absolutely die on. That shit is terrible, and I have zero patience for people who defend it once the reason for objecting to it is explained to them.

        • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Bro, if you didn’t want people to respond with genuine takes on what you post and if you’re going to be so defensive, why are you even here?

          Also, I’m not defending anything. DST should be the standard time because we spend most of the year in it anyway. But that’s just my own opinion, which I feel no need to defend to you or anyone else.