Daylight saving time is just one way standardized time zones oppress you

[Razer]

"Ryan Hagen, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Columbia University,
studies organizations and the sociology of science, knowledge and
technology."

> As a rational policy, daylight saving time may be ineffective. But as
> a social ritual, it retains real value. Our biannual clock-tuning is a
> slip of the mask, a glitch in the matrix that reminds us that clock
> time is always artificial and arbitrary.
>
> Standardized clock time is immensely useful. It is no exaggeration to
> say that the modern world depends on it: Ships once required it to
> navigate. The GPS systems that guide our cars, planes and farm
> combines count on standard time to calculate their positions. If you
> think setting up a phone call between Washington and London is
> difficult now because of differing time zones, imagine if local time
> varied by a few minutes between Washington and Pittsburgh, a few
> degrees of longitude west. In a society dependent on just-in-time
> supply chains and automated trading that works in microseconds,
> accurate, precisely calibrated time is as important as electricity.
>
> But standardized time can be, and has been, used against us. Whether
> you get more out of clock time than it gets out of you is largely a
> function of your economic security. Almost 90 years after John Maynard
> Keynes’s prediction that the future would hold 15-hour workweeks and
> lives of leisure, we feel increasingly time-starved. Sociologist Judy
> Wajcman, in her book “Pressed for Time,” calls this the “time-pressure
> paradox”: Standardized time — in which DST is an archaic wrinkle —
> contributes to a world of labor-saving innovations. But the time they
> free up is immediately filled by demands for more work, and greater
> and more varied demands on our attention.
>
> We can sketch out three distinct eras of time reckoning between
> antiquity and the present... 

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