They have to start and stop somewhere is the problem and you don’t want half a city or town using two different times. Imagine if the hardware store on one side of town closed at 8 EST and the mall on the other closed at 8 CST. Theoretically, they could be right next to each other even. For example, if you lived by the hardware store but worked at the mall, things would be a mess.

So really not awful cut offs but more weird cut offs. Because making standard cut offs doesn’t make it any better. Kind of like, best they can be with current system.

I find time zones and everything so interesting and that people don’t understand it at all. Some people will say “I hate daylight savings time” when they like the extra hour of light in the evening but hate changing their clocks. They like DST but hate changing the clocks and probably want to stay on DST always.

There’s no best way to do it. It’s all preference.

I compared Sioux Falls SD to Rapid City SD in another comment on this thread. If Rapid City was CST like Sioux Falls the sun would set 25 minutes later in Rapid City, but since it is MST the sun sets 35 minutes before.

You also got to think some start work at 8 some start at 9. If you start at 9, you’re more likely in favor of DST.

Yeah a lot of misinformation around DST. People don’t like being wrong and I guess the image didn’t fit what they wanted to be right. Oh well lol

Like I said, “It’s not just north or south.”

Time zones change the sunset time east and west as well.

Abolishing time zones has nothing to do with “fixing” daylight savings.

Even if we all switched to UTC and got rid of time zones . Everyone would have to decide when to go to bed, when to wake up, and when to work to fit it around the sun.

5:13pm CST is 11:13pm UTC

If Sioux Falls wanted to stay “standard time” for the sun. They would have to start work at 3pm UTC and get off work at 11pm UTC. (9am to 5pm)

Yet they could decide that they wanted to get “daylight savings time” for the sun, they would start work at 2pm UTC and get off at 10pm UTC. They would get one extra hour of sun after work instead of before.

Thank you. You did a great job explaining it.

The gradients change based on time zones. You’ll see how they line up.

Walking over a time zone line changes time one hour, but the sunset time doesn’t magically change an hour.

Like say you are standing between Georgia and Alabama. If you walk into Georgia the sun will set at around 5:30pm EST. If you walk into Alabama the sun will set at around 4:30pm CST.

The sun is setting one hour earlier in Alabama but you are basically watching the exact same sunset.

As you go further west into Alabama the time zone change “makes more sense” because the time zone being exactly between Alabama and Georgia doesn’t make sense other than them being separate states.

Sioux Falls SD is 43.5460°N

Rapid City SD is 44.0805°N

Sioux Falls Sunset is at 5:13pm CST

Rapid City Sunset is at 4:38pm MST

If both cities were in CST, Rapid City sun would set at 5:38pm CST

Due to the latitude difference, the sunsets should be 25 minutes apart

However, they are 35 minutes apart due to the time zone difference

If you said “Sioux Falls is farther south than Rapid City” and tried to base sunset time on just that, you’d be wrong.

It’s not just north or south

It’s almost 22 UTC

Which is 5pm EST

8am EST is when most work starts

That’s 15 hours from now

So work would start at 13 UTC

Yes, these are arbitrary numbers. Doesn’t matter if we go to work at 8am EST or 13 UTC.

However, this has nothing to do with daylight savings time or with what daylight savings time is trying to accomplish.

This is a good picture showing how different places experience different sunrise/sunset times.

Most just think that it has to do with being north or south but it also has to do with left or right depending on the location in the certain time zone.

You’re not throwing fire with a bic on a stick

Now a bic in a slingshot…

Don’t think of anything real

My favorite trick is to think of myself in a movie and play it out. I commonly put myself in Harry Potter. I walk up to the hogwarts castle door…then I just have fun making stuff up and playing it out like a movie in my head. Next thing I know, I’m asleep.

If I get too far, I just pick a different movie and start over

The worst thing you can do while falling asleep is thinking about the real world. The present, past, or future. Nope, don’t think about it.

Clear your mind and jump start a dream

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest-lasting_light_bulbs#:~:text=The world’s longest-lasting light,off a handful of times.

My father did the “real reason dinosaurs went extinct” shirt

*The real reason dinosaurs became extinct

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Gender assignment surgery

They would probably be against that too though

I saw it as

1. Stick figure in bed
2. Blowjob
3. Piledriver
4. Rest
5. Blowjob
6. Resume piledriver

I thought it was funny when i first saw it. I see the whole car thing now after reading the comment. So maybe the stick figure never leaves his house and just gets blowjobs. They could be a sex worker that takes money for letting other stick figures suck their stick. And they are waiting for their next client in-between. Or the stick figure in the first frame is the one giving blowjobs and waiting.

I mean, technically, anything can go illiterate

We have had weather modification technology for 20+ years.

First known use in war was in 1967, called Operation Popeye.

Now could the government create a category 5 hurricane? Very farfetched.

Decimeters are great. You should try to use them more.

Something that is like 2.5 ft. I can easily convert to 7.5 decimeters. Then .75 meters. There is no way i could convert 2.5 ft to meters without some serious thinking, and paper would help.

Precise has nothing to do with what units you use. Mm is not more precise than Cm

36.982 mm is 3.6982 cm. They are both as precise as each other.

Humans are much better at knowing an inch or a foot in distance than a yard or a meter.

If I said, draw a line that is 4in or 1 decimeter. You would be closer than trying to draw a meter line.

I work in building in the US. I know an inch and a foot like the back of my hand. I never deal with yards. For yards, I’d just think of it in feet and ×3. Just like I’d do with decimeters.

I know the metric system, but my default unit is US Customary.

If I had to look at a room, I could tell you instantly if it was either 25 or 30 ft. If you asked for meters I couldn’t just say “I know exactly how long a meter is (without thinking about it being basically a yard), that wall is closer to 7 meters than 9 meters”

I’d have to constantly work with meters to do that. Which I don’t.

I’m not against things being gradually changed to metric. A lot of things are in metric. Like a 2L bottle of soda. If you put a pitcher of water in front of me and asked how many liters. I’d have to think of the 2L bottle. Just like if you asked for gallons, I’d think of a milk jug. Now I have a good grip on what 5 gallons is because that’s the standard construction bucket, but 5L is 2.5 2L sodas.

I wouldn’t be nearly as precise if I used metric without decimeters. Inches and Feet are the measurements I use the majority of the time. Even a 100ft wall is a 100ft wall. It’s never referred to as a 33.33 yard wall. Using a metric unit closest to inches and feet is beneficial for me.

1000 centimeters sounds ridiculous

Guess I could have said 1 decameter

1 decimeter is a 1/3 of a foot. Assumed a flamethrower shoots >30ft. 30×3=90. ~100 decimeters.

You could change it to 10 meters easily if you prefer it that way. A third of a foot or 9/10 of a yard. I find it easier to compare it to a third of a foot.

Like I’m 6ft tall. I’m 18 decimeters, or 1.8 meters. Otherwise, I would have said 2 yards or 2 meters.

distance in a controlled, directed manner.

Interesting take.

You’re thinking of a flamethrower as it has to be a weapon and trying to fit the definition around that.

If I had a device that throws flames, let’s say 100 decimeters. Is it a flamethrower? Am I really controlling the flames at the farthest distance? I would say no because the objective of the device is to throw the flame as far as possible. Compared to a torch that could burn a bullseye at 100 decimeters, flamethrower would just burn the whole target.