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[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 weeks ago (64 children)

one day we will just stick with daylight time. its kind of a slap in the face to lose your only hour of sunlight after work!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (19 children)

I say this every year: FUUUUUUUUCK THAT.

With permanent DST the latest sunrise in Detroit would be 0900. That's fucking absurd. All across the US kids would be waiting for the school bus in the dark, walking to those bus stops in the dark. My personal beef with it is that I, and many of the people that make the world go 'round, start at 0600. We need to see ASAP for safety, if nothing else.

The US tried it in the early '70s, didn't even finish the two year trial period:
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1087280464/the-u-s-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-1970s-then-quickly-rejected-

Fuck DST. If people really want it to stay light until 2100 in the summer then so be it but don't make a lot of the working class labor half their day in the dark in the depths of winter.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Kids all across the US are waiting at the bus in the dark anyway.

Not everyone gets to get on a bus after sunrise.

The better answer is to just quit switching altogether, and socially adjust everything to x hours pre mid-day sun.

With everything being connected these days it's trivial (hell, industrial clocks have been tied to electrical frequency since 1900, so it's always been trivial to compensate them).

If "6am" slowly moved every day due to when mid-day sun/sunrise occurs, no one would even notice.