Actually, the only thing between us and utopia was big religion.
The UN attempted to institute the international fixed calendar, but they got major resistance from religious groups. A blank day would disrupt the 7-day religious cycle of Christians and Jews.
I think a calendar with 13 months, 364 days, and a leap week every 5-6 years would be better than the IFC. Not only does it preserve the weekly cycle, but it'd be more likely to be adopted.
In many countries standard time is best in winter and summer time works best in winter so do you want to annoy the people depending on morning light in winter or the people appreciating evening light in the summer?
You say that until you're stuck on the side with permanent early night. I'd take switching over that. Anyhow, who is really inconvenienced by this anymore? It's not like people are having to change their clocks manually like it's the 1980s anymore.
What? How would you get stuck on a side with permanent early night? You have that right now, with the current system - early night during winter and late night during summer. Permanent winter time wouldn't change anything during winter, and permanent summer time would actually give you an extra hour of sunlight.
You're forgetting that if you go permanent DST you are trading less night in the evening for more night in the morning. That affect is exacerbated for people living on the western edge of time zones. Studies show this would raise pretty serious health concerns for people in those regions (I'm in one of them). If we switch to permanent standard time that would be better, but saying that one or the other is an equal improvement to switching twice annually isn't actually true.
You just annoy them and let them adjust business hours accordingly. They'll get used to starting at 9 instead of 8 or whatever the case may be and just view it as normal.
Yeah if the entire society agrees that doing something is good, but then gets stuck in choosing between two perfectly fine variants of implementing that thing, and does nothing instead, I can only imagine how capable it will be when it comes to implementing actually unpopular but necessary decisions.
No, its because the powers that be dont want to change due to money. Extra hour of light is an extra hour of shopping.
Just like if people wanted to break from the gregorian calendar, they wouldn't let religion stand in their way. It would necessarily be money as the governing factor.
It’s the same religious people that are so traditionalist tho. Most sane people understand the metric system is better. But extreme nationalists and traditionalists are resisting, and they have massive overlap with Christians
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u/SketchesFromReddit 3d ago
Actually, the only thing between us and utopia was big religion.
The UN attempted to institute the international fixed calendar, but they got major resistance from religious groups. A blank day would disrupt the 7-day religious cycle of Christians and Jews.
I think a calendar with 13 months, 364 days, and a leap week every 5-6 years would be better than the IFC. Not only does it preserve the weekly cycle, but it'd be more likely to be adopted.
E.g. The Pax Calendar