US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by ksala_ on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:15PM (#30692598)

I usually realised that DST is on/off a few days after it happens because people complain. Otherwise all my clocks just adjust themself, I wake up whenever my alarm clock ring and that’s it. I never understood the hate for it.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by jedberg on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:25PM (#30692753)

It's fine for adults, but kids and pets do not go by the clock, they go by the sun. It's a challenge to get them to switch.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Thorrez on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:01AM (#30695172)

DST attempts to go by the sun. It attempts to make some fixed morning time follow sunrise. It just does it in an extremely coarse way.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by OJFord on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:21PM (#30692685)

Yeah my sleeping is no where near regular enough to be worried about a forced hour lost or gained.

I think the same logic that gives us different timezones would suggest summer hours (or in the limit, a continual shift) though - so perhaps we should just go the whole hog and have GMT (or whatever, doesn't matter) as a fixed global time!

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