US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by CydeWeys on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:48PM (#30693914)

More people are awake at 5pm than at 7am though. Lots of people won't benefit from more sunlight that early in the morning, but almost everyone benefits from more sunlight in late afternoon / early evening.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:53PM (#30693955)

> More people are awake at 5pm than at 7am though.

"More" perhaps, but probably not by that much? Schools start around 8, most people need to be in the office before 9, and so on. I don't know many people who are able to get up later than 7:30 or so, unless they work from home. And with permanent DST, the sun won't finish rising until after 8 am.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by hannasanarion on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:35AM (#30695365)

> the sun won't finish rising until after 8 am

This is only true for the northernmost reaches of the US on the darkest days of the year. Portland Maine will see sunrise at around 8:15 on the darkest day, Seattle will have it around 8:30. 99% of Americans will still wake up to sunrise year-round

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:29PM (#30706021)

I live in NYC, which is not that far north, and in the week before DST ends it's still quite dark as late as 7:40.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by CydeWeys on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @01:21AM (#30695596)

> I don't know many people who are able to get up later than 7:30 or so

I hardly know anyone who gets up regularly before 8am.

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