Using grey as the mid colour for this seems strange. It looks like missing data.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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Would be better with a single color varying by intensity. Or at least diverging from Green, Yellow and Red
As someone who is colour blind, I hate your suggestion and love having the grey in the middle.
Usually for single colors we should use blue. The green, yellow red is a standard business practice that is terrible design but now a convention.
You could overlay this map onto the enthusiasm for permanent DST and see a pretty good pattern. Those of us on the western edge of a time zone have a lot to lose in that scenario(9AM sunrises) where folks on the eastern edges would be worse off in a permanent ST plan (3pm sunsets).
Pretty much the real reason for the time change imo. If you pick a permanent time, there are winners and losers. So… we keep doing this dumb shit.
Everyone should just switch to zulu time, and each area can set their normal operation hours. Companies don't really follow 8-5 strictly anyway.
When did 9-5 become 8-5? I’ve seen it written multiple times recently.
Permanent UTC with no timezones is where it's at.
Folks on the eastern side of the time zones wouldn’t be any more worse off with permanent ST than we already are. We already use ST in the winter when the effective daylight hours are shortest. Permanent DT would be a quality of life improvement for eastern edge of timezone folks in the winter at the expense of late sunrises for western edge of timezone people. Permanent ST I think is at least better than the switching in that it doesn’t make the short day hours any worse and gets rid of the clock change silliness.
Having the sun rise at 4 am is pretty annoying though. That's what the permanent standard time does to eastern areas.
I wake up in darkness and I get off work in darkness, and I'm in the lower 48. I hate standard time. :P
Time change don’t alter the angle of the earth. You don’t have enough hours of sunlight to get light at both ends of your day. It’s not standard time, it’s your latitude.
is there one for europe as well?
"Before 3pm" sounds horrific.
Seasons though.
People perpetually surprised by how far north they live will perpetually surprised me.
I imagine those regions are effectively in 24 hours of darkness at that point
You'd be surprised what some sunlight will do vs none at all. But the light that does come is very low on the horizon making it feel like sunrise/sunset and then it's gone again.
I can't tell you about 24h of darkness, but I would love to experience a few weeks of 24h daylight! But only as a tourist. LOL
Here in Colombia the day lengths only vary by 1/2 hour throughout the year. None of that seasonal affective disorder down here.
Are those "rays" physical or caused by timezones?
The timezones are the thick grey lines on the map, and you can see they are causing breaks in the "rays".
I'm not sure what's causing the rays.
Remember that the world is tilted as it rotates. The "rays" are from the earth's rotation at an angle changing the sundown time on an axis.
Also the Mercator projection is infamously inaccurate. I'm surprised the straight lines are straight, actually.
This is absolutely not Mercator (otherwise, meridians would be all vertical and the Polar Circle a straight horizontal boundary), and the diagonal lines do not quite appear straight.
I think we'll be close to 16:00 here by the time we hit the shortest days of the year. Sunset is 16:29 tonight.
In the summer, the sky is getting light at 4-4:30
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