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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Everyone agrees to stop changing. The only contention is how. Stay on DST, or stay on Standard Time. Lots of people say like you, “More daylight in the evening please!” But they don’t realise all DST does is trick people into getting up early by lying to them, and breaking noon from the sun. Staying on standard time keeps the time sun connection. Then the “standard work day” can be changed to the more appropriate 8 to 4. You get the same effect as DST without lies, tricks, and changing solar noon. It’s cleaner than permanent DST.


  • When I lived up north by Canada, the logic was “you don’t want kids having to walk to/from school when it’s dark!!” Okay, so… wow, did you know they could change school hours.

    The same argument works the other way. Keep noon as the point where the sun is highest. Then change the times of things for appropriate daylight. Daylight savings is just people agreeing to get up an hour earlier. Instead of “9 to 5”, everyone agrees to work 8 to 4. Which coincidentally puts solar noon perfectly in the middle of the work day. Isn’t that a surprise!











  • See I think you have that flipped.
    What I describe is that everything stops. By everything I mean everything. Electrons orbiting their nuclei would be frozen in place. As a result the time stop is completely booring. Literally nothing happens. Nobody can even tell time stopped. When it starts again nobody noticed it happened. While I’m typing this response time could have stopped completely, and restarted, dozens of times.

    Even if your conciseness somehow continued, you couldn’t see anything because light itself would stop traveling to your eyes.

    What you’re talking about is more like what you see in media. Where time doesn’t literally stop. But someone, something, or someplace, gets frozen in time; But time keeps going outside of what’s frozen. But yah that’s not stopping time. That’s freezing select things as time continues around them.

    Imagine falling from the Empire State building and landing on the ground safely because you had no velocity?

    If you had no velocity you’d just stop falling. You wouldn’t reach the ground. You’d hover in whatever spot you were when velocity stopped.

    That’s assuming you maintained velocity you had with the Earth. Really if literally all your velocity absolutely stopped, you’d appear to instantly gain amazing velocity relative to the ground. Because the earth is moving incredibly fast itself. Traveling around the sun, that’s traveling around the galaxy, that’s traveling in the cosmos. The direction you move relative to the Earth would depend on exactly when it happened.