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A bit sad because I have always correlated 12pm as the sun being at its highest point (except daylight savings time, but I mentally adjust for that). Now the sun will always be at the highest point at 1pm.
I think it's night owls and delayed-cycle teenagers attending school who will suffer most under permanent DST.
In the Winter, permanent DST means everyone has to get up an hour earlier for work or school's clock time, relative to the sun which regulates their body rhythm.
Someone pointed out virtually nobody sets when they wake by the sun. Fair enough. But the sun does affect how well and how long they sleep, how restored they are, how they feel when they wake, and energy and concentration through the rest of the day.
Night people already struggle with getting up early enough for clock-time social expectations. As it's a struggle already, getting up an hour earlier is going to be harder for them. (If the sun makes no difference, why is it already hard?)
Research (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30691158) suggests that overall, health will suffer, sleep will be shorter, and educational attainment in teenage years will reduce. Even brain development may be adversely affected.
But there will be more shopping (economic activity), so that's ok.
I didn’t know this is for the senate to decide, and find that surprising, given that most of Arizona doesn’t do DST at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Arizona : “Arizona does not observe daylight saving time (DST), with the exception of the Navajo Nation, which does observe DST. The Hopi Reservation, which is not part of the Navajo Nation but is geographically surrounded by it, also does not observe DST.[2…
I didn't think we're heading for nuclear war, but the US Senate 100% agreeing to something is a clear sign The End Is Near!
And also, if it does happen, how much more likely does it make it that Canada will follow suit? Surely having Canada out of sync with the USA for half the year is untenable, right?