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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
monsieuricon
British Columbia passed a law that they're done with biennial DST changes starting next year and a bunch of people are fauxpset that they picked "permanent DST" as the solution instead of "permanent standard time."
As someone who, for a long time, was in charge of scheduling games for his local baseball association, let me tell you that "permanent standard time" would be a disaster for summer-time organized sports. All of your fields without lights would instantly become pretty much unusable if the sun sets at 7:30 instead of 8:30 in July.
Your circadian rhythms will be fine, you ninnies -- your young parents won't be if Jimmy can't play his favourite game any more because his local municipal budget doesn't have any money to install floodlights.
As someone who, for a long time, was in charge of scheduling games for his local baseball association, let me tell you that "permanent standard time" would be a disaster for summer-time organized sports. All of your fields without lights would instantly become pretty much unusable if the sun sets at 7:30 instead of 8:30 in July.
Your circadian rhythms will be fine, you ninnies -- your young parents won't be if Jimmy can't play his favourite game any more because his local municipal budget doesn't have any money to install floodlights.
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@monsieuricon@social.kernel.org I think maybe there is opposition because it's called "standard" time. Just the naming carries weight I guess!
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@monsieuricon maybe the games would be shifted to before the sunset then?
But holy cow, 2030 sunset *in july*??
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
monsieuricon
@corsac sorry, you can't start games earlier than 6:30. Parents aren't back home until 5:30 due to that whole "work" thing, and they need to still feed the children and then get them organized to go to the game. So, no, 6:30 is the earliest reasonable time to start a game and if you only have one hour of daylight, you're pretty out of luck on fields without lights.
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@monsieuricon if that happened everything might just settle down earlier (in practice mimicking the DST
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