{"items": [{"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/447205625320022?comment_id=447213521985899", "anchor": "fb-447213521985899", "service": "fb", "text": "Note that with current air conditioning practices, DST actually costs more energy than it saves, except in fairly cool climates (which are of course getting less cool).", "timestamp": "1344655848"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/447205625320022?comment_id=447214341985817", "anchor": "fb-447214341985817", "service": "fb", "text": "First we should change the beginning of the day to a sensible time like 6AM. Only an idiot would claim the day starts in the middle of the night.

As for why people stay up late, in my case it's simply to finish the projects I've started.", "timestamp": "1344656078"}, {"author": "David German", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/111229345142780712481", "anchor": "gp-1344656223807", "service": "gp", "text": "Alice: \"The seismographs logged tremors at 2:30 am last Saturday!\"\n
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\nBob: \"Wait, weren't they still dynamiting at the quarry down the road?\"\n
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\nAlice: \"No, they said they'd stop by 1:30.\"\n
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\nBob: \"Sure, but was that the first 1:30 or the second 1:30?\"\n
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\nAlice: \"Come on, it can't be the same time - we didn't fall back two hours this year!\"\n
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\nBob: \"Yeah, we did! \u00a0Let's look it up!\"\n
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\nAlice: \"Okay, I guess we did. \u00a0Wait, though, when did we last reflash the firmware on this thing anyway?\"\n
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\nBob: \"I totally updated it in May.\"\n
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\nAlice: \"Well, if so, you forgot to initial the logbook. \u00a0It's probably still on 2021 time. \u00a0Hang on, let me download the time adjustment file to check that, and then we can do the conversion by hand.\"\n
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\nBob: \"We should really set up an annual reminder for the updates. \u00a0Noon on the first Wednesday of April!\"\n
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\nAlice: \"Sure, how long is the next one from now? \u00a0Oh, wait, we don't know yet? \u00a0Let's just convert to UTC and...um, drat.\"\n
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\nBob: \"Who voted for that \n@Jeff Kaufman\n\u00a0guy, anyway?\"", "timestamp": 1344656223}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1344672204708", "service": "gp", "text": "The times are all arbitrary anyway, they're just numbers. We should just pick one convention (none of this DST on/off business) and stick with it. Then, if people want to be up during daylight, figure out what times that corresponds to, and plan accordingly. There's nothing different between 7 DST and 6 standard anyway.\n
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\nWe do probably tend to have some psychological associations or hangups with certain times, but there's no reason that we should be fixated on the numbers, rather than the sun positions.\n
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\nAs for why people stay up late... I think it my case it's a relative thing. Establish some new average and I'm sure I'd stay up later than whatever it was. I don't think it has all the much to do with the sun.", "timestamp": 1344672204}, {"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103741579182942078941", "anchor": "gp-1344686353839", "service": "gp", "text": "The real solution is not changing time, but allowing people to have more flexible work schedules. \u00a0Most places won't let people come in at 6am and leave at 3pm, or come in at 11am and leave at 8pm (presuming a 8 hour day). \u00a0On the one hand, it's nice to have standard corporate hours during which companies can communicate, but with email and mobile devices, it isn't as\u00a0necessary as it used to be.", "timestamp": 1344686353}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/447205625320022?comment_id=447318395308745", "anchor": "fb-447318395308745", "service": "fb", "text": "Any sensible person knows that 4:30 is time to get up and 8:30 is time to go to bed. \"Why do people stay up late?\": I don't.", "timestamp": "1344687993"}, {"author": "Adam Yie", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114873051319510815414", "anchor": "gp-1344699811337", "service": "gp", "text": "@David German\n\u00a0Sir, that was amazing.", "timestamp": 1344699811}, {"author": "Katherine", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/111274538329832838041", "anchor": "gp-1344703764620", "service": "gp", "text": "I agree with Allison that we should be more concerned with allowing people to set their own schedules than in mandating something that will work better for some people than the status quo but worse for others. Not everyone has the same natural sleep cycle.", "timestamp": 1344703764}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1344719081251", "service": "gp", "text": "Allison-- that was one of the nice things at Allstate. On my first day, my boss said \"Work any 8 hours you want, as long as they include the 6 between 9am and 3pm.\" Often did work 6am to 3pm, to avoid traffic. ", "timestamp": 1344719081}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1344734866225", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n\u00a0Everyone had to be in by 9am?", "timestamp": 1344734866}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1344735233136", "service": "gp", "text": "At that job, yeah. Still, that's a fair amount of flexibility.\n
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\nAt Kaggle, things are totally flexible! (And we need another developer or two.......)", "timestamp": 1344735233}]}