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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by tsimionescu on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:15PM (#30689871)
Most people have a fixed work schedule. If you work for Walmart and the store opens at 8 AM, you can't arbitrarily decide to wake up at 8AM because that's when the sun rises.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dheera on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:59PM (#30690681)
Most people start work at 8-9am and sunrise is well before that with plenty of time for commute with or without daylight savings.

There is another much smaller cluster of people who start work at 4-6am because they're in transit or service industry and they are before sunrise either way.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by tsimionescu on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:59PM (#30691632)
To get to work at 8AM, you can't wake up at 8AM. Sunrise often occurs around 7:30-50AM in northern latitudes even in ST during December and January. With DST, this would mean sunrise occurs at 8:30-50AM.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:09PM (#30690858)
Not during the winter if this change goes through. In much of the northern US, sunrise won't be until after 8 am on many days.
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