Holy shit, just had a look at their Google Play entry and I fucking love how highly responsive they are to their users. Definitely gonna download it and give it a go.

Sunshine, consider yourself one user closer to overtaking Reddit xD

Ah right. So it’s like a front-end alternative UI to OSM, basically?

Interesting, I’m here from /all. What exactly is Organic Maps, and what’s its connection to OpenStreet Maps?

Thanks!

So, final score?

I haven’t done it much recently, but I do love writing by hand. Carefully writing letters to give to my D&D group with my ink and quill. Composing on paper with a pencil and rubber. There’s something much more personal about it than typing on a screen.

One of the more eventful weekends of the year for me this weekend.

Going to the 1st day of the 3rd test match between India and Australia tomorrow. Unfortunately rain is predicted pretty much all day, so there may not be much actual cricket played.

Then riding to the opening of a new green bridge on Sunday. A very nice change after attending a protest this evening about the closure of a major bikeway so the local casino can run an event for 2 weeks.

Plus, delaying it in time means people who look at their front pages at different times are more likely to see one of them.

But that’s just my own opinion

Your opinion has as much relevance here as the opinion of climate change deniers.

Bruh, I just presented it because it was cool. You’re the one getting hung up on whether the fairly basic premise of the chart is the best premise that could have been used.

But yes, that DST is bad is a hill I was absolutely die on. That shit is terrible, and I have zero patience for people who defend it once the reason for objecting to it is explained to them.

Oh dang! They’re still on 0.18‽ Holys hit that’s old! Is the head admin/whoever’s responsible for deploying updates absent?

This one here should be pretty high res. I only scaled it down to 4000 px wide. If you’re not seeing that, it may be something funky with your instance’s proxy—check my instance.

But the original was 9600 wide iirc. If you want that, it cake from signing up to a mailing list that was linked by someone else in my earlier post in this community.

That would be really cool!

The thing with DST is it’s not just a matter of personal opinion. Studies have been done on it, and they universally come down on the idea that it’s really bad. Heart attacks, traffic crashes, and suicides all go up as a result of DST. Economic productivity goes down. Here are a handful:

• https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31678-1
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205184/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29461606/
• http://66.160.145.48/fairclough/pdfs/26/hb0019_attachment_0003.pdf
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692659/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259373/

I’m particularly a fan of the penultimate one linked there, which states:

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

But also, you know I didn’t make this map, right? It’s just map that paints places in red if their solar noon is more than half an hour away from their clock’s noon. Which is the “right” way to do things unless your goal is abolition of time zones entirely in favour of adapting working hours to the local conditions without adjusting clocks.

15 degrees of longitude for a timezone stops making sense that close to the poles

Yeah exactly. The concept of time zones themselves really starts to break down at those latitudes, and I don’t think it matters what map projection you show it on (though something like Robinson or Winkel-Tripel, with curved time zones, would definitely make things clearer), it’s a fundamental aspect of the way in which light is hitting the Earth’s surface.

Daylight saving time would take it from western Europe being red to almost all of Europe apart from Russia and Belarus being red. It would invert the parts of the contiguous US states so the current correct time places are wrong, and the current wrong parts are correct. Which means both the east and west coasts (the most populated parts by far) are now wrong. And incidentally, Alaska stays entirely red. It would make the western most edges of NSW and Victoria good, as well as the western half of South Australia, at the expense of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, and Hobart, nearly half the country’s population, before you even begin to account for the rest of the southeast.

That would require way more effort than “find picture from elsewhere on the Internet, scale it down to a size my Lemmy instance will let me upload, and then upload it.”

But anyway, you can basically get that from this chart, for the most part. The rightmost edge of each red section is 30 minutes ahead, or the leftmost is 30 minutes behind of where it should be, when those edges are caused by the time zone itself (rather than national or regional boundaries like state lines), growing by an hour per vertical line.

So, the westernmost parts of Spain are about 1 hour 30 ahead, while the easternmost parts of Poland are 30 minutes behind. The westernmost tip of China is about 3 and a half hours ahead.

That doesn’t exactly explain why they’re still in those time zones 80 years later, despite only having been under Nazi control for less than 6 years.

The real problem with this is the official dictate that businesses in the west of China have to operate to Beijing time hours.

If you just said “businesses in the west open at 11 and close at 7, while Beijing does 9 to 5”, it’d be like a smaller-scale version of what I (and others, including elsewhere in these comments) have advocated for: everyone operating on a single time zone, worldwide (usually UTC).

This uses standard time across the board. Because accounting for shifts due to pretendy-magic-time would be impossible in a static image.