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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by bilalq on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:57PM (#30689465)
Which is what this effectively does. We can get sunset at 5pm instead of 4pm in the winter in Seattle now.

Really, the choice is a tradeoff between earlier sunrises or later sunsets.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:01PM (#30689579)
An hour of sunlight from 4-5 is useless. Most people will still be working. The tradeoff is that most people have to wake up and go to school/work in complete darkness during the winter.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by tempestn on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:06PM (#30689688)
It's only in the very dead of winter that the extra hour is from 4-5 (which still means it's lighter at 5 than it would have been). In the shoulder seasons you definitely get more light after work.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by heleninboodler on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:29PM (#30690164)
Yeah, and we're going to get sunrise at 9am in the winter. Good lord, that is going to piss people off.
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