US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Loughla on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:51AM (#30698118)

So the problem with that is school also serves as a safe daycare for children/teenagers while parents work. Everyone wants to blame the puritanical "if you aren't present 8 hours, it's not real work/school" attitude, but it's not that.

It's economics. People can't work if they have to stay home with their kids.

Right, wrong, or indifferent, that's 99% of the reason for the standard school day/hours. To fix the school problem, we have to fix our out-of-date 8-5 mindset toward work, first.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @03:26PM (#30702886)

Which brings us back to why we should adopt permanent standard time instead of DST!

Timezones are an illusion. All you're actually changing when you change the clocks are people's cultural expectations, namely around when it's appropriate to arrive at work and school. Ergo, we should adopt the standard that has people start work and school later, not even earlier than they already do!

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by rtkwe on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:12PM (#30713471)

This was really highlighted by COVID. Families having to suddenly deal with childcare threw a big wrench in corporate America.

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