Re:Timezone Bullshit
by ghaff on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:36AM
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The problem is that you need to "fiddle with the clocks" in a coordinated way. Schools can't shift around starting times asynchronously with the many businesses where parents work for example.
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Yeah. Any sufficiently coordinated schedule change would involve as much headache as clock changes.
More of a headache, even. Sadly, DST is the only good way to have everyone synchronize a schedule change like this.
Those who argue for eliminating DST but somehow still preserve some form of winter/summer hours are basically arguing for eliminating DST and then recreating it poorly.
You either do DST or you mostly just pick a timezone and stick with it year round.
I like the latter approach: year-round DST. Not even sunlight in the evening is frequently a problem for me, but not enough sunlight in the morning isn't.
People forget that we (the US) actually had year-round DST once - in 1974.
But a couple of kids got hit by buses in the morning, and there went that experiment:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-sav...
Edit: got the year wrong!