What's the point of articles like this? You can find any number of things which "cost" any amount of "lost productivity". If a few minutes lost to DST is such a big issue, what about Youtube? Shouldn't the government ban that?
The whole thing is a beat-up. Human nature, not any particular outside cause, is responsible for "lost" time. And human nature picks it right back up, too - this idea that "minutes spent with an app open" is some kind of definitive measure of productivity is utterly useless.
What is it with people and DST, anyway? I've never had even the slightest problem with it. Time zones are pretty much arbitrary, and we have to constantly adjust them anyway (witness the leap second at beginning of this year). All the infrastructure to do that is already in place. I don't see why it's such a huge issue. Personally, I like it - if we didn't have DST here, the sun would come up before 5am. I find the arguments about "the sun is in my eyes when commuting" utterly spurious, the sun is always going to be in someone's eyes.
Don't see what the problem is or what necessitates these contrived justifications against it.
The whole thing is a beat-up. Human nature, not any particular outside cause, is responsible for "lost" time. And human nature picks it right back up, too - this idea that "minutes spent with an app open" is some kind of definitive measure of productivity is utterly useless.
What is it with people and DST, anyway? I've never had even the slightest problem with it. Time zones are pretty much arbitrary, and we have to constantly adjust them anyway (witness the leap second at beginning of this year). All the infrastructure to do that is already in place. I don't see why it's such a huge issue. Personally, I like it - if we didn't have DST here, the sun would come up before 5am. I find the arguments about "the sun is in my eyes when commuting" utterly spurious, the sun is always going to be in someone's eyes.
Don't see what the problem is or what necessitates these contrived justifications against it.