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Ten years ago I wouldn't have given a shit about this. But now days, with people increasingly engaging in fantasy over reality, I'm adamantly opposed to anything that's not real. DST is not real. People need to re-ground, not fantasize that the day is longer when it's not.

NuttBoxer says

people increasingly engaging in fantasy over reality

Time is totally a man made construct. So much to the point, we fantasize that it's a dimension that one can go forward and backwards through.
Time's sole purpose is to keep track of the Sun cycle, and the seasons, and make sense of the Gregorian Calendar.
It's a mathematical model that is only applicable on Earth. And a sloppy one at that!

At this point I'm surprised that time hasn't been converted to metric. Where the time and date is represented in just one floating point number.
It would take over 100,000 years before that number would be as large as the National debt, as our national debt stands now.

86,400 seconds in a day
X 365
31,536,000 seconds in a year

National Debt
33,705,145,000,000

seconds in 100,000 years
31,536,600,000,000

Tenpoundbass says

At this point I'm surprised that time hasn't been converted to metric.

Like the unix timestamp?

People aren't like us, they want visual aids. All I'm saying is that the visual aids should be as accurate as possible, not randomly change the time to create the illusion of more daylight for people too lazy to wake up earlier.

Tenpoundbass says

At this point I'm surprised that time hasn't been converted to metric.

Jokes aside some assholes are now communicating time in UTC and expect you to do the conversion.

komputodo says

Tenpoundbass says

I could do without it getting dark at 5:00 mid and end December.

you would rather have it dark later in the morning?

Why are people slaves to a clock? Do you have very specific hours to be at work?

Eric Holder says

Jokes aside some assholes are now communicating time in UTC and expect you to do the conversion.

They are expecting a computer to do the conversion, not a person.

There's a reason to use UTC if you tune into live broadcasts that are on the other side of the planet or across time zones. When I specify time in a computer program, I use GMT, and then crap like dealing with timezones goes away and dealing with timezones gets to be a headache because there are timezones that ignore daylight savings times - think Indiana does this, some that are 1/2 hour off from the rest of the world like India, some that just ignore times zones like China...

Tenpoundbass says

At this point I'm surprised that time hasn't been converted to metric. Where the time and date is represented in just one floating point number.

No reason to make it a float. Use a double long. I.E. 0 - 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF - that gives you a range of 290 billion years in both directions if the granularity is a second.

komputodo says

Like teaching a foreigner how to pronounce WASH and CASH?

They know how to wash cash. They're pretending to not understand.

NuttBoxer says

they want visual aids. All I'm saying is that the visual aids should be as accurate as possible,

There are teenagers that can't read analog clocks.

Lots of them.

Onvacation says

NuttBoxer says

they want visual aids. All I'm saying is that the visual aids should be as accurate as possible,

There are teenagers that can't read analog clocks.

Lots of them.

Another reason I didn't move to CA... Intelligence. Those are adults raising those teenagers. I have a Movado watch with just a 12 marker and no dashes or anything. Just a diamond or something at noon/midnight. My kids can read it no problem. And my youngest is a mimbo (male bimbo - I think I created that term actually).

I actually don't mind DST. Especially this time of year. It's an excuse to get smashed early, go to bed early and wake up like life is on the same time. Did it last night. Everyone thinks the fall is better. That's when my depression trigger gets going. I need sunlight. It wasn't snowy, but this is the gloomiest/darkest winter I can remember here in IL in my life.

A lot you guys don't have to deal with cold weather AND no sun. The combo is rough. And by cold I mean 15ºF for highs. We didn't leave the hot tub yesterday because it was flipping cold in the shade and it's March.

WookieMan says

A lot you guys don't have to deal with cold weather AND no sun. The combo is rough. And by cold I mean 15ºF for highs. We didn't leave the hot tub yesterday because it was flipping cold in the shade and it's March.

I know. I grew up in suburban Chicago and then Michigan.

For years I felt like I was cheating somehow for not suffering in the winter. California sucks in a lot of ways (wokeness, taxes, crime) but the weather is about as good as it gets.

I need to get a job in Arizona or Indiana...

Patrick says

For years I felt like I was cheating somehow for not suffering in the winter. California sucks in a lot of ways (wokeness, taxes, crime) but the weather is about as good as it gets.

Every place has its flaws. My official retirement goal is the USVI's. Any of them. They can get slammed with hurricanes. We just had tornados here 1 mile south of my house. Live near water there's tsunami potential. Hurricanes. Always potential flooding issues.

I do actually like snow, I just can't stand less light. I am feeling groggy right now, but I did have a long weekend of drinking and eating snacks and all meals out which I rarely do. The toilet is upset with my ass currently... It was fun for IL though I'll give it that.

Tip for anyone that partakes in weed consumption. Do NOT drink it. I didn't this weekend but I warned a buddy not to. Had the whole can... he was toast. Probably didn't help he had mushrooms earlier in the day. At least cleaned the house we rented when we went out to dinner and bar hopping.