“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”
“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”
Ending the clock change is good, but do it on solar time.
People who want permanent DST are free to just get up an hour early.
Hardly anyone is free to get up an hour later to accomodate their inner clock.
I’m free to get up an hour early, but not free to leave work an hour early. The entire benefit to me is not having to spend 3 months without seeing the sun after work.
A similiar thing is true for people in general. Early birds are free to just lie in bed some more or to move slower when getting up and they are free to go to sleep an hour earlier as that’s free time. Late risers (the slight majority, too) are not free to sleep according to their natual rhythm because they need to get to work and can in fact not just go to sleep an hour earlier when they are not tired yet.
And yet daylight saving time that punishes the latter group and keeps them in a constant cycle of slight sleep deprivation is pushed as the single time because idiots associate it positively with summer.
Under standard time, I don’t see the sun before or after work during the winter. It rises after I get to work, and sets before I leave. I just want to get sunlight after work, even in the winter. Give me permanent summer time.
I don’t actually care which one gets picked, I just wish we’d stop changing twice a year. I really like the “move the clocks 30 minutes and then don’t touch them again” option too. Seems like it would be a decent compromise to me.
Work on a different schedule, or move South where the daylight hours don’t change as much.
Can’t tell if boomer or trust fund baby.
Neither, just learned not to care where the sun is.
Working night shifts is even worse for you.
You must not live in the Northeast.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, put us on permanent UTC-4. I can’t do another winter of only observing the sun on the weekends