Since the Americans have just had it again, and we will have it again
soon…
It's hard to rant about time changes, which offend me
æsthetically, without ranting about everything else too.
Precious little schoolchildren going to school, or coming back from
it, in the dark? They're barely allowed out of the house unsupervised
anyway. (And changing the clocks just makes things worse, however you
change them.)
Why not change standard working hours instead? If only some
organisations change them, or they let people like their own, you can
get rid of the insanity of rush hours too. Work days are clearly far
too long anyway; even eight hours is longer than a human being can be
mentally productive in a day, and many places are longer these days.
And in turn, if something is so urgent that you need to talk to
someone else about it right now rather than waiting until a small
window of time when you're both at work, someone has messed up the
project management.
Everyone going to work at the same time is fine for the factory but
makes very little sense for the office. Unless poor managers want to
feel big by looking over people's shoulders.
I am well aware that there are many more problems in the world, but
this seems to tie in to more of them than I expected.