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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by emtel on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:29PM (#30692782)
> Everyone I know wakes up whatever time that their work tells them to.

Uh, yes, that's the point - and many businesses and schools will stick to a consistent nominal time (like 8am) which will now be one hour earlier in real terms.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by beambot on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:56PM (#30693041)
> [...] which will now be one hour earlier in real terms.

"Relative" terms -- i.e. relative to sunrise. Eliminating daylight savings means that all times are now "real" terms.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by emtel on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:34PM (#30693362)
Eliminating DST would mean that. But this bill makes DST permanent, which means that nominal noon will forever be "real" 1pm, which means sunrise will always be one hour later than it otherwise would be.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by CydeWeys on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:50PM (#30693929)
It's all arbitrary anyway. There's no natural law of the world that something called an "hour" exists and that a day is split up into 24 of them, or that the hour called "12" is the one that necessarily corresponds to solar noon (or midnight).
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by thehappypm on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:24PM (#30694584)
For the four months a year that Standard Time currently operates, sure.
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