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Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti... by WorldMaker on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:47PM (#25651592)
It depends on which edge of a timezone you live on. Standard time makes more sense for the eastern most edges of timezones and Daylight time makes more sense for the western most edges of timezones (and people towards the exact center of timezones distrust both because they both don't work correctly to the sun), because timezones are hour-wide. Going back to 15-minute wide timezones would be extraordinarily painful, of course, but as someone in a city that partly defines the western edge of a timezone, I do sometimes wonder what life would have been like when the city had a 45-minute offset from its eastern edge counterparts back before railways standardized on hour-wide timezones.
Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:57PM (#25651707)
Geography definitely makes a difference, but I think that on average, society is currently optimized for early risers at the expense of late-risers. I've been trying to find this article all afternoon, and I finally remembered enough of the title: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/18/11255942/morning-people-evenin...

The article largely thinks increased schedule flexibility is the solution, but I don't think that's every going to be practical for many types of work. But, we can at least make sure we don't make our world even more lopsided.

Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti... by WorldMaker on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:03PM (#25679476)
I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that geography magnifies the early riser problem. Schedules set by early risers in the east in a timezone are "twice" as early for late risers in the west of that timezone. When the sun of your city is always 45-minutes to an hour behind the city that "leads" business in your timezone, even some of their late-risers start to look like early-risers with respect to sunlight hours.