

The argument I’ve always heard isn’t that it helps them with their work, but that it helps them with the rest of their life. Since so much of their work has to be done during the day, having more time at night to go to the store and such could potentially be nice.
It’s still dumb, but it’s slightly less dumb.


During the morning, I mean. When the morning comes earlier, in theory the farmer that started at sunrise can get everything done at an earlier hour and be able to, like, go to the bank or whatever. Like I said, it’s dumb, but slightly less dumb than "farmers get to work earlier.
That said, though, I don’t see how we could have “thinner” time zones. If you divide a 360-degree sphere into 24 equal arcs, you’re kind of stuck with 15-degree time zones, give or take. I guess we could redefine an hour to be 40 minutes, and thus have 36 ten-degree time zones, but that seems like a lot of work. And time zones that aren’t an hour apart are madness.
Yeah, public transit would fix this pretty nicely. That plus a shorter workday, and a commensurate shorter school day.