You can either view this post as logically inconsistent with my last post, or logically consistent. I happen to view it as consistent. But I can see how someone else might not.
I'm opposed to the idea of daylight saving time*. I don't like coordination for dubious social gains, especially when the coordination just acclimatizes the populace to following arbitrary orders.
So far, so good. You know this about me by now. But where do I get off liking this proposal to not only end daylight saving time, but reduce the number of time zones in the contiguous U.S. from four to two? Well, time is a social construct, so it's appropriate that it would be controlled socially. The question is, controlled to what end? Daylight saving time is trying to engineer your life, but reducing time zones is trying to simplify your life. Simpler travel and simpler coordination. No more twice-yearly exercises in compliance with arbitrary orders. All of this seems desirable to me.
Like I said, I can see how you might think I'm inconsistent here. But I don't think I am.
* = Like "safe deposit box" and "PIN," "daylight saving time" is something that most Americans say incorrectly. Screw you, I'm not doing something I know is wrong just to make you feel better. One of my second son's most-endearing features is his habit of (correctly) leaving out the word "and" from complex numbers such as 132.
Title from "Berserker" by Love Among Freaks, as seen in the film Clerks.
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