Blaming the clock system is easy. True blame is on work practices. It is the year-round same-hour alarm that awakes people at awkward times, not the time itself.

The real health solve is for workplaces to set an adaptive clock-in time, so everyone wakes up with the sun.

International companies already have a country-dependent clock-in time; this is not much of a stretch.

Agreed. We’re clearly at a point where worker and individual rights are at a minimum and corporate and business rights a near totalitarian max.

A "winter schedule" in schools would be the simpler solution than shifting time by an hour for everybody...

(Edit: Mentioning schools since the article explicitly talks about children...)

Maybe not as simple if the parents or guardians also have to manage taking the kids to school at a certain time before going to work, conversely could make pick up schedules better. Point is it’s not as simple as change school schedules.

> Summary: if the sun rises later in winter then it will be dark when most people wake up

Unless you wake up after 8am (which most people do not, during the week), then you already will have to wake up before sunrise in Vancouver, B.C., even without year-round daylight time.

It's going to be dark when you wake up anyway, at least in areas like Canada or Northern Europe where people get up early.

This really happens to be. I have so much trouble waking up and going to sleep when they implement daylight savings here in Europe. To make matters worse, I am a night-owl, so getting to the office is quite difficult for me.