You’re missing the asymetry of passion. A strict majority of the poll may say they don’t care (and I really question this polls results because I have literally never heard anyone like DST), but a large plurality hates it.
I mean if you were asking friends ‘where do you want to go for dinner’ and 5 said I don’t care, and 4 said tacos, then you are going to get tacos. Because though it didn’t have a majority, it had a majority of people with an opinion.
So when a slim majority answers ‘it doesn’t bother me’, but a large plurality says it bothers them, to really bothers them, then the answer is to ditch the antiquated routine.
I still don’t get why people think its antiquated. The justification is the same as it ever was: switching the clocks makes sense for people with non-agricultural employment in temperate latitudes. What is antiquated is thinking people should just get up with the sun, without regard for what the clock says.
I like DST. I thought that was pretty clear, actually.
That’s an interesting take on how to make public policy. Does it apply to other topics? Should we make decisions on gun control based on whether gun owners are sufficiently passionate about guns? If a minority of people are really, really opposed to abortion, should that outweigh a pro-choice majority if they are not equally passionate?
Look if you’re going to be disingenuous in this discussion, fine. I was referring to the poll. You know that, but seem determined to fight this one for the sake of fighting.
I know, but your reasoning seems rather ad hoc. There were very similar polls when Obamacare was proposed: a lukewarm majority in support vs a vehement minority in opposition. I didn’t care about “asymmetry in passion” back then, and I don’t see why I should care now.
Ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than DST does, often dividing daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during autumn.[20] For example, the Romans kept time with water clocks that had different scales for different months of the year; at Rome’s latitude, the third hour from sunrise (hora tertia) started at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[21]
Actually, I was thinking that a “foot” should be whatever the size the foot at the end of your leg is. Naturally, an inch should be whatever the average length of one of these is:
Well, while your are enjoying, take a moment to think of all the extra people whose lives are ruined by it. The extra car accidents, the extra heart attacks, the few extra people that will die because of the toll that changing your sleep schedule has on people.
171 extra pedestrians are predicted to die because of this change.
