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[–] lengau@midwest.social 17 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Forced year-round pretending we're an hour ahead means more kids will have to walk to school in the dark, sharing streets with sleep-deprived drivers who are also up before their bodies say they should be. That's gonna kill people.

[–] MTK 17 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

There is also a study that found a correlation between changing the clock to heart attacks incidents rising, suggesting that it might be caused by the clock change which triggers stress and sleep deprivation which triggers a heart attack

[–] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Yep, which leads us to the natural conclusion that noon on the clock should roughly equate to solar noon, year round.

[–] turmacar 4 points 4 weeks ago

That would mean ~360 timezones globally. More if you didn't simplify to a single degree.

Coordinating is enough of a pain across timezones without having to worry (much) about minutes.

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