But if this is the consensus, that things should start earlier, then why not start them earlier, and leave the clock alone? Let the clock be a device that says, when the sun is roughly in its zenith.
Work begin time or school begin time are fairly superstitious and can be changed. I don't see a reason to change the clock.
you do realize you can simply wake up earlier and it'll have the same effect? :D
Edit: I see a couple of downvotes. Could some one give some arguments?
You do realize, the sun isn't hanging in there for an hour longer, just because we on earth made a change to some kind of time keeping device? We will still have 24h hours a day and the sun will still shine the amount of time it shines.
Edit: I see a couple of downvotes. Could some one give some arguments?
Why? You do realize, the summer time is the offset from the real timezone? And also it does not change the amount of hours we have in a day. It is still 24h :D
Good guess, but I am not from Germany. I just like the feddit instance.
Nonetheless you are right. The clock, the time zones - all of it are arbitrary and purely human inventions. However, I would argue there is an inherit value of keeping the timezones as accurate as possible.
My argument stems from seagoing. It makes much more sense from navigational and travel stand point to have the time zones roughly correlate to the zenith of the sun. I presume in aviation it could be similar, but not sure about that one.
This would make the navigation easier, travel easier and we would have some kind of concrete, unified system.
Of course dropping the DST are just baby steps. There are so many things wrong with our time system, but one can start somewhere.
In essence I guess I just want the time zones to mean something instead of this madness, that we have.