Let's hope the EU manages to follow; it seems to be in the cards, but politically tricky. This is something that has gained a lot of traction the last decade though; lots of popular support too (parents of young children will rejoice).
US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
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Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#42I can understand the concern of other posters about going to DST as opposed to standard time... but at this point, I just want the switching to end. It is such an unnecessary disruption and fixing it seems so trivial.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#43Hot take: permenant daylight time not permanent standard time because nightowls are more common than they used to be.
I prefer having more daylight in the evening. I never really understood the opposite argument.
Daylight in the morning does wonders for resetting your circadian rhythm to the actual day, rather than its internal 25-something hour day.
What would naturally happen by making daylight savings time permanent is that people's circadian rhythms would shift forward until daylight savings time basically becomes the same thing as standard time.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#44This is excellent. With the rise of air conditioning, daylight savings has considerably less electricity savings than it used to. It will also make timekeeping more consistent. I have lived in Arizona for the past few years and it is pleasant to know that you will always be at UTC-7:00.
True, but this keeps daylight savings permanent not standard time.
It will change how the morning feels in winter, but I'm OK with settling on savings time. The bill allows states like Arizona or Hawaii to stay on savings time if they'd prefer it.
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#45We did this before. 46 years ago. And it went badly.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-sav...
Why do we have such short memories?
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#46Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.
When it’s scarce you want to waste it on the early morning?
It's not wasted then, it's quite useful. Having kids walk to school or to the bus in the dark is ridiculous. In northern areas the Sun won't come up until 8:30AM.
Not to mention the extra energy use.
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#47I know this is hardly a radical take, but I don't care what time it is. I can adjust my schedule appropriately. What I hate is changing the time. It makes us all sicker, causes accidents, and workers in certain professions have to work weird hours to keep up with the changes. It's such a drag on the economy and only seems to serve a small fragment of society.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#48Hot take: permenant daylight time not permanent standard time because nightowls are more common than they used to be.
I prefer having more daylight in the evening. I never really understood the opposite argument.
I prefer daylight in the morning. It's easier for me to wake up and be alert after sunrise, and I feel like a zombie before sunrise. Don't really care if the sun sets at 5:30 or 6:30 p.m.
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