Setting the room temperature to 17/18C when people are dressed in summer clothes and 23/24C when people are in warm clothes

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Am I being unreasonable to think people who do this are illogical?

To me it makes much more sense, is more comfortable and environmentally friendly to set room temperatures to higher in the summer (but still comfortable) and lower in the winter when people are wrapped up anyway.

I guess people who set it like this are assuming the machine isn't going to be perfect at maintaining the temperature they want (approx 20C all year round) so they are overshooting a bit.

Set room temperatures? Are you talking about air conditioning, because I don’t know anyone who doesn’t just switch the central heating off in summer?

When I lived overseas in a seasonal country with summers at 35 and winters -18, the recommendation (there were public adverts) to heat to 20 and cool to 26.

Yes I'm talking about air conditioning for 17/18C and heating

I guess I should say make rooms actually 17/18C or 23C with AC or heating.

But I do get annoyed by people set something thermostatically controlled (and is either off/on) to a more extreme and it just over shoots rather than getting there faster.

Who do you know that sets the aircon at 17/18? We set it to 26-28 and then only overnight.

@Kepler22B this seems very very sensible and good to hear that a whole country understands what I'm saying. Thank you, that makes me feel happy.
I'm in the UK and sometimes I suggested this to people, when I've spend a winters day in a furnace of an office or shivered (or resorted to jumper) in summer, and people really don't get it!

My air con doesn’t even go that low, the lowest is 19 and that’s what it’s set to all year round.

The heating does get set to 22 in winter though, but I like to be cosy… I’m under a blanket right now.

You are around much more sensible people than me. I turned the temperature up a little in my workplace office today when I realised it was set to 19 and felt chilly. So many places I've work have done this.

24c in a room that's been heated feels very different to a room that has been cooled.

When in a heated room you will still get random pockets of cold air and feel it sap away your body heat. I regularly would wake up shivering at 20c during the winter.

A cooled room has the opposite - random sources of heat that make you feel hotter and your body is already working hard to keep you cool and can't cope with the extra heat well. 20c in summer often has me waking up severely dehydrated with a dry mouth.

And that's before we start factoring in things like humidity which drastically changes the way hit and cold feel. You'd have a point if the temperatures actually felt the same and triggered the same bodily responses, but they don't.