Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished
I'm Swiss. Back in the day, the Swatch group had an experiment where they tried to invent a new unit for time. They came up with the `beat`, also known as Swatch Internet Time. The unit represented a 1000 beat cycle centered around midnight on the Swiss meridian, ie. UTC+1. There'd be no daylight savings time.<p>All in all, it's a really cool idea, and I owned a watch for many years that reported beat time, but it was essentially useless. This is perhaps the most gigantic of chicken-and-egg problems, the mere fact that it is currently useless ensures that it will forever be useless.<p>More at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time</a>