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Daylight savings (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Index@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

Iceland here, we don't use DST at all. GMT / UTC all year round, it's nice.

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few years about adopting it though, but a lot of people don't really see the point, me included.

During this time of year, October / November, the days start to get really short, so the sun doesn't rise until 8 or 9, and it sets around 16 to 18.

Having some sort of DST here wouldn't make much sense IMO since it would only be 3 months or so. Then there's the debate of do you want to use DST and have the sun rise sooner, but set sooner or vice versa with no DST.

Personally I like that the sun is still somewhat there when I leave work, since even with DST the sun would just barely be starting to rise when I would be commuting to work in the morning.

(Tangent: I don't get why a lot of global schedules for some events list the start times of a live stream for a ton of different timezones, but never also include just GMT / UTC)