US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by lxgr on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:42PM (#30693436)

> To be fair, isn’t that essentially what DST systems are?

Not exactly: DST solves for not having to have seasonal/variable schedules.

Without DST, we lose that, and we do actually get to decide, once, how we want to arrange our lives in this new, linear time – implicitly or explicitly.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by bhaak on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:36PM (#30693820)

For public transport (at least here in Europe), we do already have variable schedules anyway.

As students often use public transport to go to school, schedules often have reduced service during school holidays.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by hahajk on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:55PM (#30694811)

Funny enough, for jobs that do schedule around sunrise/sunset (like flying), DST is even more disruptive. Perhaps you used to get a sandwich after your day flight but when DST starts, everything suddenly closes an hour earlier!

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Thorrez on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:07AM (#30695212)

DST makes it more disruptive in the evening, but less disruptive in the morning.

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