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AnonymityIsForChumps t1_jdy4fiy wrote

Reply to comment by cdmoomaw in Greenland turns clocks forward for last,should Massachusetts/eastern US do the same by Hoosac_Love

That's only the ideal if you think that noon should be the middle of the day. I don't.

I'm almost always awake 8 hours after noon at 8 PM, but almost never awake 8 hours before noon at 4 AM. The schedule of our lives aren't centered around noon, so why should the daylight hours?

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RandyCheeseburgers01 t1_je12h3j wrote

I guess the question is why our days are no longer centered around solar noon. Intuitively, that has to be the most natural way, evolutionarily speaking. Our circadian rhythms haven't changed drastically since the Industrial Revolution. That's not the kind of time scale evolution operates on.

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