The ancient Romans had an alternative to daylight savings time.
BBC News reports: "Twice a year, around a third of the world's countries perform a hotly-debated ritual: meddling with time to create longer summer evenings and brighter winter mornings."
I hate #daylightsavingstime. I hate it so much. The week where #DST changes occur lets me find the weirdest of higgs-bugson and mandelbugs in #GNOMECalendar while doing #QA.
At least the majority of those issues have already been durably fixed for #GNOME 46 by @danigm's fantastic #TDD (unit-tests-backed) bufixes 😌
Daylight Savings Time is so awesome. I love trying to convince my kid to go to bed while the sun is still up, get out of bed before the sun comes back up, wear gloves and a jacket because the bike ride to school now happens at the absolute coldest part of the night, and ride the long way to school because the usual route is full of drivers who are now staring directly into the sunrise.
If #DST (#DaylightSavingsTime) is good, countries like #China (1986–1992), #Japan (1948–1951), and #Korea (South: 1948–1951; 1955–1960; 1987–1988) would've kept on using it. They're doing perfectly fine without it.
My country, the #Philippines, used DST multiple times in its history (1936–1937; 1954; 1978; 1990). The last time was mainly to conserve energy, and abandoned it after the energy crisis was solved.
To countries still using DST, make up your mind. Either stay in Standard Time or permanent Daylight Time. It's good for you and everyone else. ^_~
New rule: Daylight Savings Time is officially abolished. When clocks next revert to Standard Time, there they shall remain. Why? 12 Noon literally means the hour when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. To give people the illusory extra hour of daylight, work shifts shall change from 9-5 to 8-4.
The sun rose an hour earlier than yesterday, igniting a silent war in passive-aggressive households across the nation, with the weakest finally succumbing to setting the clocks forward on their stove and microwave clocks while muttering under their breaths. #daylightsavingstime
I really hate daylight savings time changes. They're such a stupid waste of so much time by so many people for such little gains of questionable worth and so many negative secondary effects. Can we please choose one way or the other? I have a preference but I'd throw that out if we can agree to stop this weird painful 20th century practice. #rant#daylightsavingstime
I always post funny memes, but I rarely see others posting humor of their own. I would love to get lots of good laughs today for my birthday and see this hashtag trend. So please reply to this post with a joke or a funny meme– and don't forget to hashtag it #HootinTootinTuesday. Thanks!
Bonus #Jokes:
I've decided I'm not old. I’m 25 plus shipping and handling,
“No matter how often I tell people I'm 39, some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.” - Jack Benny
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#ProTip: if you don't care what time you go to sleep or wake up, and all your clocks are synced with the internet you don't even notice #daylightSavingTime