Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by voisin on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:28AM
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It isn’t a negotiation over how much to change. It is a debate as to whether it should change at all. And no one seems to be arguing that it should still change. This is just lack of political will to push the legislation.
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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by ghaff on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:47PM
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Perhaps no one likes changing. But I bet, especially in mid-northern latitudes, that a lot of people really don't like having to choose between:
- sending kids to school, driving, and doing outdoor work in winter pitch black and
- having the sun streaming through windows at 4am in the summer at the cost of an hour of long summer evening
even less appealing.
Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by novia on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:58PM
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You do know that institutions such as schools can change the time they start, right?
Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by ghaff on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:04PM
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It actually can be quite difficult as school start time isn't independent of many other schedules, including school buses picking up other grades starting later. So, no, they can't necessarily. Kids going to school in the dark was one of the major reasons cited for not renewing the all-year DST experiment. I suppose you could find a way to change or just give them flashlights but, in any case, it was a public issue in the past.
Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by novia on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:44PM
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Typically this is something that would be changed on the scale of the school system of a county. That resolves the school bus issue. As far as kids being picked up in the dark.. again, the school system can change start times during certain parts of the year so that doesn't happen.
Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:03PM
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When the argument is specifically about disruption, you could solve that by shifting the clock in 10 or 15 minute increments, weeks apart.
Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
by vaccinator on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:37AM
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in that case, lets just go to universal time and let businesses tell you what time to come in