Thank goodness for UTC!

In the South Island driving an hour earlier in winter would make a big difference to road conditions.  I'd be interest to know what difference it makes to air pollution in a big city, in winter there is less wind earlier in there morning.  

I'd rather not be up at what is actually 4am in winter.  Brrrr!

Switch to standard time all year round and do a six hour day the winter half of year and a ten hour day during the summer half.

MikeAqua:

 

In the South Island driving an hour earlier in winter would make a big difference to road conditions.  I'd be interest to know what difference it makes to air pollution in a big city, in winter there is less wind earlier in there morning.  

 

I'd rather not be up at what is actually 4am in winter.  Brrrr!

 

Fair point, but how do people cope in the colder parts of the US then (for example)?

If it is so easy to change where the clock points, why is it so hard to change what you do? Just do it an hour earlier or later. The clock won't care.

Rikkitic:

 

If it is so easy to change where the clock points, why is it so hard to change what you do? Just do it an hour earlier or later. The clock won't care.

 

In my case it's not just me it's an entire business that would have to change.  Vessels, people, domestic and international logistics.  Not as easy as it might seem at first thought

coffeebaron:

 

Switch to standard time all year round and do a six hour day the winter half of year and a ten hour day during the summer half.

 

Cool suggestion but I would do it the reverse. Work the 10 hour day in winter when its cold, wet, bleak and miserable and work a shorter day in Summer when you actually feel like getting outside.

quickymart:

 

Fair point, but how do people cope in the colder parts of the US then (for example)?

 

I suspect in real cold an hour here or there makes little difference. People have snow tyres, roads are salted and people are accustomed to driving in real winter conditions. I've spent sometime in Alaska (just for the halibut) and it's different world when it comes to winter driving.

Which makes you wonder what will happen in Arizona... https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

I imagine in the wider states (e.g. Tennessee) timezones must be a nightmare, especially for people living near the boundary. The time will differ every time you cross the boundary. Fortunately, both timezones change from DST to standard time on the same day.

For those who like long summer evenings, western China is the place to be. With only one (Beijing) time zone, sunset is at midnight in the summer in western China.

Gee, people debating daylight saving. Must be March/September (insert year here).

Next month it will be whether shops should be allowed to open on Good Friday and an examination of NZ’s participation in wars. In June we will examine whether it is time for NZ to become a republic.

As has been mentioned Daylight Saving is pretty daft. 

The UK is currently 13 hours behind us. On the 27th March they start Daylight Saving and are 12 hours behind. Then we stop Daylight Saving and the UK becomes 11 hours behind.

frankv:

 

Which makes you wonder what will happen in Arizona... https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

 

2010 I was listening to a radio station while in NM and AZ that gave one time for Arizona and one for New Mexico and the Navajo country.  That suggested to me that DST was not recognised on Navajo lands, but was in the rest of Arizona.

as a programmer I would love everywhere to drop DST/StandardTime and just use one.  Would make working with dates and timezones a lot easier.

Well, it's currently @955 in .beats ... let's see who remembers those :)

Behodar:

 

Well, it's currently @955 in .beats ... let's see who remembers those :)

 

Was that the thing Swatch tried to introduce? Swatch Internet Time?