American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by drdeadringer on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:17PM (#24320574)

> Not if it comes paired with legislation forcing employers to get on board on penalty of punitive damages being assessed against them.

> Been done before, can be done again.

I do not recall this, so to me this sounds like dreamscape idealism. I would like to be educated otherwise. Is this real? Is this actually possible in 2020 reality?

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by afarrell on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:14AM (#24323417)

France implemented the metric system a year after the Execution of Robespierre. Russia used the Julian calendar until Vladimir Lenin's decree in 1918.

So yes, there are indeed states which are capable of these sorts of changes.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by Google234 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @07:38PM (#24326968)

States were much more authoritarian back then

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