[–] 0 points 1 week ago

It's literally the definition. Cowboys can no longer have gun fights at high noon because if no longer exists.

My biggest problem with this change is not ending the biannual time change. But moving to perminent DST. All that is doing is moving the goal post. Eventually everyone will get used to it and start moving store hours to matches what the sun is actually doing. We'll adjust to the sun, not the other way around.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    It will. They will claim it improves customer choice and makes them more efficient. It might for a few months. Then they'll raise rates and their services will be worse. Classic enshitification.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Fair. When the railroads in the US pushed for time zones we moved away from noon being the time when the sun was directly overhead to more of an average time when the sun was over essentially the middle of the zone. Now Congress is saying that noon is 1 hour before when the sun is overhead. That was true for half the year. Now it will always be true. We're abstracting what noon is even further.

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