2846: "Daylight Saving Choice"

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2846: "Daylight Saving Choice"

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Title text: I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

Randall's predicted outcome of the above: chaos
Realistic outcome: everyone just shrugs and continues to do it the way they did anyway, to make it easier
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Re: 2846: "Daylight Saving Choice"

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Averaging out the difference makes as much sense as the current system.
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*switches to a system where the sun rises at 6:00, and sets at 18:00, and day hours and night hours are different lengths*
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Re: 2846: "Daylight Saving Choice"

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That was, essentially, the ancient Roman system.
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*switches to a system where 6:00 is whenever I wake up and 18:00 is whenever I go to bed that day
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