You could overlay this map onto the enthusiasm for permanent DST and see a pretty good pattern. Those of us on the western edge of a time zone have a lot to lose in that scenario(9AM sunrises) where folks on the eastern edges would be worse off in a permanent ST plan (3pm sunsets).
Pretty much the real reason for the time change imo. If you pick a permanent time, there are winners and losers. So… we keep doing this dumb shit.
Everyone should just switch to zulu time, and each area can set their normal operation hours. Companies don't really follow 8-5 strictly anyway.
Permanent UTC with no timezones is where it's at.
Folks on the eastern side of the time zones wouldn’t be any more worse off with permanent ST than we already are. We already use ST in the winter when the effective daylight hours are shortest. Permanent DT would be a quality of life improvement for eastern edge of timezone folks in the winter at the expense of late sunrises for western edge of timezone people. Permanent ST I think is at least better than the switching in that it doesn’t make the short day hours any worse and gets rid of the clock change silliness.
Having the sun rise at 4 am is pretty annoying though. That's what the permanent standard time does to eastern areas.
I wake up in darkness and I get off work in darkness, and I'm in the lower 48. I hate standard time. :P
Time change don’t alter the angle of the earth. You don’t have enough hours of sunlight to get light at both ends of your day. It’s not standard time, it’s your latitude.
is there one for europe as well?
The "permanent ST" lobby unfortunately had that map burned due to being pro-DST propaganda.
"Before 3pm" sounds horrific.
I live in the Arctic and polar night is the most beautiful time of year. The sun almost comes up and paints the clouds red, while the sky to the north is stained purple. Then at night you frequently get the aurora and even if you don't you get a beautiful crisp starry night surrounded by snowy mountains.
Seasons though.
People perpetually surprised by how far north they live will perpetually surprised me.
I imagine those regions are effectively in 24 hours of darkness at that point
You'd be surprised what some sunlight will do vs none at all. But the light that does come is very low on the horizon making it feel like sunrise/sunset and then it's gone again.
I can't tell you about 24h of darkness, but I would love to experience a few weeks of 24h daylight! But only as a tourist. LOL
Here in Colombia the day lengths only vary by 1/2 hour throughout the year. None of that seasonal affective disorder down here.
Are those "rays" physical or caused by timezones?
The timezones are the thick grey lines on the map, and you can see they are causing breaks in the "rays".
I'm not sure what's causing the rays.
Going south makes the earliest sunset happen later (because every sunset happens at the same time at the equator) and going west within a timezone makes it happen later too (since the sunset moves from east to west). Put those together and you get the diagonals.
They're caused by how the data is split on the half hour. +-1min changes color drastically.
I think we'll be close to 16:00 here by the time we hit the shortest days of the year. Sunset is 16:29 tonight.
In the summer, the sky is getting light at 4-4:30
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