Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides,' experts say

Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by chrisseaton on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:21PM (#29070737)

I guess I don't get what activities people are doing that need the sun. Sports pitches for example have floodlights. When I run in the evening I carry a torch. Where I live a bit further north it's going to be dark unless you shift the day by like three hours. We manage to do things after work just fine.

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Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by rurp on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:39PM (#29070976)

Some sports aren't played in areas with big flood lights, and many people don't live near that kind of infrastructure at all. It's totally fine if you aren't interested in those activites, but it's a little weird to me that you seem unaware that they even exist and millions of people like to do them.

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Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by watwut on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:06PM (#29071420)

No one said "totally impossible to do anything".

We want to do things on the sun. We don't want to have to carry torch. We want to get what little vitamin D we can get from more then just pills.

It is cool to see outside without having to go where floodlights are. Taking walk and see around, for example.

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Re:Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides... by chrisseaton on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:54PM (#29072978)

> We want to do things on the sun.

Just seems a bit disproportionate to offset everyone else's lives by an hour so you can have a walk in the sun or whatever.

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