US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by mindcrime on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:22PM (#30690011)

An awful lot of us can't "just adjust around that" though. A significant portion of the population work jobs with relatively fixed hours, working something like 8-5, 9-6, etc. So if you don't get off work until, say, 6, and then have an hour commute home, DST is really nice to allow for some sunlight for outdoor activities after work.

Sure, it's easy to say "just leave work an hour earlier" and some people have that flexibility. But far from most, I'd wager.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by hinkley on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:27PM (#30690120)

I would like to see this change in conjunction to moving to a 32-35 hour work week. As a developer it is still often socially difficult to take time during the day to do errands or go to appointments, and so I am constantly reminded of the times when I simply could not take the time off.

I'd love to live in a world where bankers and dentists and optometrists all kept different hours, so the bankers could get glasses, and the dentists take out loans, without having to drop everything to do it. With smart phones this is somewhat more tenable. I don't need to memorize when the dentist is open, so there is less immediate value in reducing the world to a small set of common numbers.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by chrisseaton on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:37PM (#30690327)

> then have an hour commute home

That’s where the problem is.

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