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Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti... by munificent on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:05PM (#25649530)
The sun doesn't care what arbitrary numbers you assign to points in time.

Just change all of the school and office start times when you make the switch and you get the exact result you want. Numbers are arbitrary labels for points in time. You can just assign different labels.

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Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti... by MarkLowenstein on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:16PM (#25651936)
What is lovely about this debate is that people who don't like getting up early think that DST gives them a magic extra hour of daylight, so they push hard for permanent DST. At the same time, they think that people advocating 8-4 working hours or earlier school hours are draconian ascetics. Yet what they get in both cases is exactly equivalent, other than which numeral you use when referring to the time.
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