That’s not how time zones work, the sun will be directly overhead at a different time depending on where you are within the time zone. Also solar noon happens at a different time of day throughout the year anyway. Check out an analemma diagram for a good illustration of that.
On this map (in standard time), the red areas are where the sun rises and sets later than noon, and green are places where it sets earlier (both on average). DST shifts the map red. So if you’re in a green zone, DST is going to be closer to solar time.
Noon means the sun is directly overhead. DST the sun is directly overhead at 1pm. DST delenda est
Listen, I agree I like noon at midday. But I cannot support morning people getting another societal W and the sun setting at 4pm in winter.
Throw us night owls a bone pweeeeease.
motion to go an hour further so it gets dark at like 3:00, the sun can go to hell
At 3:00 AM
That’s not how time zones work, the sun will be directly overhead at a different time depending on where you are within the time zone. Also solar noon happens at a different time of day throughout the year anyway. Check out an analemma diagram for a good illustration of that.
On this map (in standard time), the red areas are where the sun rises and sets later than noon, and green are places where it sets earlier (both on average). DST shifts the map red. So if you’re in a green zone, DST is going to be closer to solar time.
Full map: https://web.archive.org/web/20140107014651/http://i0.wp.com/poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SolarTimeVsStandardTime.png
Blog post this is from: https://web.archive.org/web/20140110094028/poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/
This was helpful and informative but has only radicalized me further: death to time zones
I agree that permanent DST is not optimal, but is way better than what we have now.
Standard time only. Bring back the sundial