Discontinuous Savings Time
A humble alternative to daylight saving time: the clock jumps several hours every afternoon. A jump discontinuity, and the perfect excuse for an unproductive afternoon.
Transcript
"Discontinuous Savings Time: define sunrise as 6am, and sunset as 6pm, and the clock jumps several hours each afternoon to make up the difference." "As usual, I got nothing done between 1pm and 3pm. But now I have an excuse."
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-03-17-discontinuous-savings-time/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)