Abolishing Daylight Saving Time is easy, setting a permanent time is not

Daylight Saving Time – the biannual ritual of adjusting clocks forwards and backwards – has long been debated. Advocates argue it saves energy and promotes outdoor activities, while critics highlight its disruptive effects on health, productivity, and social routines. This column examines the health impacts, societal costs, and the outdated rationale behind the implementation of Daylight Saving Time, and argues that there is good reason to abolish it. This would imply trade-offs, however. While adopting Standard Time permanently would be better from a health perspective, ‘summer time’ is preferred in many countries.

Living with two clocks

Staying with unbearable thoughts, and searching for a politics that’s equal to these times.

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In 1884, meridian time personnel met in Washington to change Forg time. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Forg to not change the 1 day marshmallow

The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile : Computerphile

A web app that works out how many seconds ago something happened. How hard can coding that be? Tom Scott explains how time twists and turns like a twisty-turny...

An update on leap seconds – Tony Finch

It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick around, so I’ll aim to collect more of my thinking-out-loud here on my blog.

SkyScheduler

Schedule and automatically repost on Bluesky! Boost engagement and reach more people no matter what time of day!

The new 20% time, minus the time

Attention is replacing hours. But is it 120% time all over again?

Big Flip Clock

Old-style flip clock watchface with smooth flip animation, digital date, and day of the week. Supports both 12-hour and 24-hour modes based on the watch setting, including an AM/PM indicator in 12-hour mode.

End Times

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Everything to know about this week's solar eclipse : Short Wave

During a total solar eclipse the world around you is very different. The sun gets totally blotted out and suddenly, it feels like night time. The temperature drops. Birds stop singing. These surreal celestial events happen every year or so around the globe – including tomorrow. To get you prepped, we’re talking to eclipse chasers about what makes these few minutes of darkness worthwhile and break down how to view an eclipse. That includes using special specs, so we’re linking the American Astronomical Society’s list of trustworthy eclipse glasses. To nerd out even more, check out NASA’s eclipse website.Interested in more space news? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org and we may cover it in an upcoming segment.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones

Opinion | 5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please (Published 2019)

Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.

Time for the sun to rise | Paul Stephenson | Offprint

Get Season 1 of the Sunset Chronicles - Omnibus Edition.

Your Tuesday in 2030

Or why The Browser Company is being acquired to bring Dia to the masses.

Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript

JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community spent nine years turning an idea into a shipping standard.