No daylight savings time

[brewmaster]

So after the Fall back a couple weeks ago, the Sun is more or less set by 6 now. Being a graduate student and that I spend a lot of time in the lab, by the time I go home at night its dark. Now, I actually prefer the dark/night, but recently the only time I get in the light is when I move between buildings on campus. It's really irritating, because I want to go out and run a few klicks, but would prefer not to do it in the dark, not because of safety, but because my eyes are really light sensitive and when cars go by I'm blinded for a bit.

One side benefit is that Jupiter is in the SW horizon as I drive home, and the only other planet to rise while I'm usually awake is Mars at around 9. If I'm staying up really late, I can get to see Saturn. But alas, I am off topic.

They say the reason we move off of DST is because the kiddies need the light to be picked up by the bus. I say fuck the kiddies, if they are too stupid that they need light to be picked up by a yellow, slow moving, blinking, gaseous behemouth then they deserve whatever fate it is that people are afraid they might encounter.

Anyway, to the point, does anyone else prefer that we stayed on DST all the time?

[ShaiGar]

No I'd prefer it if we had simple time. It isnt as if we save any daylight, noon is at the same time every day (when sundials have no shadow). If these people in favour of daylight savings really want to have more daylight hours then they ought to change the hours of their business rather than try to force everyone else to go along.

I prefer hours of darkness as well.

[brewmaster]

Nice point ShaiGar, I haven't tested it (sundial wise) but I am in the extreme, extreme Western edge of my timezone, so I would suspect that my true noon is something on the order of 1030 - 1100 local.

[HackerX]

Can't agree. I live in queensland, australia which if you don't know doesn't have day light savings while the rest of the east coast of australia does.

Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is trying to write programs to do reconciliation with Banks (all situated in Sydney) when their cut off times change and aren't the same as yours?

[ShaiGar]

That's a matter of government incompetence, not DST