I prefer that we keep "DST" all year long. Its more pleasant leaving work while its still daylight. And I suspect that many US citizens think the same.
How about we keep standard time all year long, and you just leave work an hour earlier?
If you can write a law that will enforce that my boss lets me do that, sure.
(The real issue is that the legally-regulated opening hours for e.g. banks are too late in the day)
You propose moving timezones east by one hour?
I certainly think New England should move a time-zone to the east in the winter. The least disruptive way to do that would be to get on DST one year and never get off.
This solar time vs. standard time map [1] indicates that most of the world prefers to slightly bias their daylight hours to the afternoon, and I'd be happier if we joined them.
[1] http://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-t...
Just get up earlier, if you like that. Moving the timezone probably wouldn't have any longer term effects.
In Spain, there are in `the wrong' timezone, ie they are on German/Polish time. As a result, life still happens at reasonable solar times, but at late wallclock times.
Okay, but some schedules are inflexible in practice, and "just change the time you do things" is also an argument against DST.
Oh, it definitely is. Though, DST has a bit more of a bite, since people won't just adapt to it by moving things over one by one. (Because it goes back to sane for half a year every year.)
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by jessaustin on Sunday November 01, 2015 @09:35AM
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What is going to change and why should we want that?
The American public (and world public for that matter) is obviously 100% apathetic.
If you really want this to change then you have to goad politicians and tell them how the USA is stuck in the 20th century and going backwards. But good luck with them caring about that either.