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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by D13Fd on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:08PM (#30690847)
We'd have to change work timing too, then, to facilitate dropoffs and parents who want to watch their kids at the bus stops. And at that point, we are back where we started. Better to just not mess with the time, and stick with standard time.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by rattray on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:16PM (#30690956)
It's probably easier to change work timings now than it ever would have been before. Which is great.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Jtype on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:26PM (#30691130)
If you change what time people go to work from 8 am to 9 am then you will also be changing when they get home from 5pm to 6pm. Then you have lost that extra daylight in the evening, which was the entire point of the time change!
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by jalk on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:27PM (#30691149)
Changing the start time for some activities twice a year seems likely to cause even more confusion that changing the clock
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by tshaddox on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:49PM (#30691485)
> And at that point, we are back where we started.

Except only for people at latitudes where it's worth doing. Those people are precisely where they started, and everyone else has a much simpler year-round standard time.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by stickfigure on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:18PM (#30690984)
What percentage of the population must start work at exactly 8am?
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:35PM (#30691255)
A pretty big chunk. I couldn't find the latest Census data, but in 2000 ~20% of people left for work before 630 and 72% left for work before 830 am.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2000/...

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