Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time...
by cbarrick on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:45PM
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The government wants everyone to have more daylight hours after work, since that's correlated with higher economic activity.
From the government's perspective, they cannot force all companies to shift their working hours, but they can shift the clock. They're changing the abstraction once instead of changing all concrete implementations.
This change doesn't make a difference for most of us in tech, since we can usually set our own hours. But it does make a difference for shift workers.
The argument in favor of DST generally goes that people have more spare time in the afternoon than in the morning. So extending afternoon sunlight hours benefits more people.