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   Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:08:32 JST Ami Angelwings

   Just cuz I think some people are never sure what refers to what. DST, Daylight Savings Time, is the time in the summer where clocks are 1 hour ahead, so sun is at its highest point at 1pm instead of noon. You get more daylight in the evening hours as a result.

   The time switch in the winter is switch to Standard Time, where the sun is highest at noon (this is the "normal" time society had before DST was invented, hence why it's Standard), you get more sunlight in the morning but the sun sets earlier in the evening.

   If you're in North America, for the last 15 years, DST has been the main time (8 months of the year vs 4 for ST).

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     EmbraceBecoming (embracebecoming@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:25:51 JST EmbraceBecoming

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     • P J Evans has moved to mas.to

     @ami_angelwings @PJ_Evans I need that extra hour in winter. I need it so bad. I can't stand getting off work when it's already dark.

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     Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:25:53 JST Ami Angelwings

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     • P J Evans has moved to mas.to

     @PJ_Evans you mean to have longer daylight at night, or the removal of one hour? because if we stayed on DST, there'd be no change at all from right now so there wouldn't be a removal of one hour, the switch this weekend would never happen and it'd be just this time forever

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     P J Evans has moved to mas.to (pj_evans@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:25:54 JST P J Evans has moved to mas.to

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     @ami_angelwings
     I'd rather lose DST. It's hard on the body.

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     Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:25:55 JST Ami Angelwings

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     The bills to remove the time switch aren't actually to get rid of DST but to make it the new time. It will get rid of the time switch back to Standard Time (the switch upcoming this weekend) and make the current time (DST) permanent since DST is already most of the year, 8 months (Mar-Nov) vs only 4 for ST. So we wouldn't be "getting rid of Daylight Savings Time", we'd actually be getting rid of Standard Time and making DST permanent.

     It's confusing because the colloquial way is just to refer to the time switch as "Daylight Savings Time", but that only applies to one particular time setting, not the switch itself.

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     Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 23:18:33 JST Ami Angelwings

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     • Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

     @deborahh it doesn't help the confusion that a lot of people don't say "EDT" (Eastern Daylight Time) or "PDT" (Pacific Daylight Time), they say EST (Eastern Standard Time) and PST (Pacific Standard Time) all year round

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     Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 (deborahh@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 23:18:34 JST Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

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     @ami_angelwings frankly, I always have to look it up: are we switching TO dst or FROM it? So confusing. And I never use DST or EST as a result, always "Eastern Time" or "New York" instead. And then there's the issue of booking trans-atlantic meetings 🙈

     Elimination would suit me fine! 💯
     #doIt