@Xirema If your office is as bad as mine, that only translates in more blinding glares on your monitor ;_;

the justification I am typically familiar with for daylight savings is safety, i.e. shifting peak travel times to be in better lighting dramatically reduces road accidents

It would make sense to me that crime decreases also if it's well-lit at the times people are out and about, since that would deter opportunistic crime like mugging

@Carcer At least I've seen only studies pointing to the reverse here

People mess up their sleep hygiene with the sudden shunt, spend the next few days more tired, resulting in more traffic and domestic accidents

Of course here up North it feels a bit silly in the sense that it's going to be dark for most of the day in the Winter anyway, there's really no hours to change that. Either commute to or from work will be dark.

@kviiri I am also familiar with people arguing that the UK should permanently be on GMT+1 because changing is stupid hassle but the benefits once you're actually shuffled over are good

in fact some people are of the opinion that we should actually go to double summer time (GMT+2) permanently

@Carcer It's a complicated issue, because it's kinda beneficial to be in the same time as one's closest partners... but that requires coordination to do well :P

We are UTC+2 normally, +3 DST. Expert opinion typically favors +3 in terms of health effects but there's also the business advantages of being in sync with the rest of the Europe, or with Russia.

Coordination is required! :D

@kviiri I'd be curious to see if there really are significant business advantages past having a few hours of overlap, it seems like as long as you're within 4-5 hours of each other you'd have enough shared office time to easily do business

@Carcer I don't have any numbers to show, but stuff like lunch breaks coinciding would be quite handy

I don't really have strong feelings about DST myself, although I believe my friends who are more dependent on a good sleep hygiene to cope with basic day to day stuff, but I'm a bit angry about how discussion surrounding it tends to go around here

There's a few people who actually cite studies and that, but most of it is just conformist "rebuttals" of arguments against DST

"Don't these people have bigger problems in life" and that tier >__<

@Carcer they even ran an experiment on that across 1969-1970, keeping the country in permanent british summer time

the results were inconclusive

there were less deaths in the evenings, but more deaths in the mornings, but also new traffic legislation had rolled out, muddying the stats.

mm

Ugh. A spare part bought for my vacuum cleaner broke after just a few months of use. I mailed the company asking them to send a replacement. Got a reply later that day: "Thanks for the contact! Your case has been assigned the Ticket Number: X-XXX". Then, a week of no contact. No asking for pictures of the broken part, or anything.

Today, I sent them a new message. "Hey, ticket number X-XXX here, pls tell me if the replacement part is coming"

Half an hour later, I got a reply... "Thanks for contact, you have been assigned the Ticket Number Y-YYY"

Please!

@kviiri You have been assigned Ticket Number Z-ZZZ.

oof