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Revision as of 17:57, 25 October 2023
I instead suggest that we make the DST shift 12 hours. 172.68.1.190 15:16, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
The terrorist plot wasn't thwarted by this kind of proposal. It was just due to the fact that DST laws differ between countries. Barmar (talk) 15:31, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
- The Palestinian terrorist plot on 5th September 1999 definitively was. One group of terrorists switched to ST as decided by authorities, while other refused to and used DST. Abukaj (talk) 16:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Average 39 minutes
While this figure makes sense (rather than 30 minutes) it was still slightly unexpected at first; as DST has a duration of 238 days, the average year-round time would be 238/365 hours ahead of Standard, or 39 minutes and 7.4 seconds.
(Or, to factor in that a leap day occurs in 97 of every 400 years, 238/(365 ⁹⁷⁄₄₀₀) = 39 minutes and 5.8 seconds)
In fact, the original DST duration was set to actually be 6 months long (last Sunday of April to October), before being extended in 1987 and 2007 to reach its current 34 weeks.
SomeDee (talk) 15:23, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
I was wondering where that number came from... trust him to use the most absurd metric possible for averaging, instead of, for instance, the average deviation of sunrise, solar noon, or sunset... or even their earliest or latest times. - 172.68.2.102 17:17, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Major health
> "has been found to cause major health problems"
Citation needed.
One reported factoid: "..a group of U.S. researchers ...determined that heart attack risk jumped 24 percent the Monday after switching over to daylight saving time. .....dropped 21 percent on the Tuesday after the fall time change." https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/10/26/can-daylight-saving-time-hurt-the-heart-prepare-now-for-spring 24% in fall, 21% in spring, suggests 3% net, which is more likely margin-of-error than major-problem.
"has been suggested" or "controversial" but not "has been found".
Personal Inclination
I haven't changed clocks for DST in years. That system is garbage; it doesn't even fall on obvious days. When someone says a clock is off, shrug & say "That's debateable. This one's right year-round, how often do you have to set yours?" ProphetZarquon (talk) 17:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
