Mexico Abolishes DST
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Mexico Abolishes DST
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#2US Senate passed Permanent DST unanimously: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/us-permanent-dst.html
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#3Great!
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#4I hope the US will follow suit.
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#5DST makes no sense to begin with, but it makes even less sense as you get closer to the Equator. On the other hand, permanent DST is a disaster for high-latitude places, where you’ll have kids walking to school in the dark. Russia trialed permanent DST for a short time, and then switched to permanent standard time.
With so many caveats related to DST, why even bother with it at all?
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#6US Senate passed Permanent DST unanimously: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/us-permanent-dst.html
Once that goes through US states will have the option of DST/standard time switching, standard time only, or DST only.
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#7DST makes no sense to begin with, but it makes even less sense as you get closer to the Equator. On the other hand, permanent DST is a disaster for high-latitude places, where you’ll have kids walking to school in the dark. Russia trialed permanent DST for a short time, and then switched to permanent standard time. With so many caveats related to DST, why even bother with it at all?
I don't see DST as a disaster in this (relatively) high-latitude place. And I have kids.
Here in Sweden, we switch to standard time this weekend.
Right now, sunrise is 8.16 and sunset is 17.32, so yes, I'm taking the kids to school in the dark, and it's still light when I pick them up around 16.45.
Next week, yes, it'll be light in the morning. But sunset will be 16.19, which means I'll be picking the kids up from their after-school program in the dark.
On December 10, the sun will be up 8.46 - 15.20, so it'll be dark for both drop-off and pick-up -- and neither DST nor Standard time will change that.
If it's really a walking-to-school-in-the-dark issue, then maybe the school start time is the problem. "Schools Start Too Early" - https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.h...
> The American Academy of PediatricsExternalexternal icon has recommended that middle and high schools start at 8:30 a.m. or later to give students the opportunity to get the amount of sleep they need, but most American adolescents start school too early.
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#8US Senate passed Permanent DST unanimously: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/us-permanent-dst.html
Once that goes through US states will have the option of DST/standard time switching, standard time only, or DST only.
This is going to be a nightmare. It's hard enough to keep track of which state is in which time zone even with them (mostly) grouped by geography
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Once that goes through US states will have the option of DST/standard time switching, standard time only, or DST only.
This is going to be a nightmare. It's hard enough to keep track of which state is in which time zone even with them (mostly) grouped by geography
At the very least, even if everyone agrees after a month or so that the idea is horrible, we will have so many new timezones forever in the tz database! :D
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#10Good on them! I wish Denmark would do the same.
Though, as a software developer, I'm slightly worried how many weird/interesting side-effects it will have, how many places are there strange hardcoded edgecases due to this..