In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    True, but driving home from work in the dark is much more dispiriting than going to work in the dark. So if your work doesn’t let you come in earlier and leave earlier in the winter (clock-wise) the change to standard time makes things worse.

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      1 year ago

      work doesn’t let you come in earlier and leave earlier in the winter (clock-wise)

      And that’s where the real problem lies. Instead of negotiating with our employers to help build equitable schedules, we’d rather ask the government to enforce it for us. Permanent anything, either DST or ST, will force us to face this fact. In light of that, I’d rather go with permanent Standard Time, as it matches mean solar time and thus circadian rhythms. Everything else is a social contact.