Case for making Standard Time permanent

Re:Case for making Standard Time permanent by vhodges on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:43PM (#38102938)

I am on Summer time all time. Winter is the worst for me since it means I get up an hour 'earlier' on the clock. The dark makes me want to crash and an hour earlier for that too.

Also... 'standard' time means it's dark at 4:30pm where I live on the solstice (and I am not that far north) which kind of sucks, so it makes sense for me to champion for permanent daylight savings (which what the Governments for BC, WA, OR and CA all want anyways).

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Re:Case for making Standard Time permanent by DocKitKat on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:51PM (#38105820)

The problem is people won’t want to send their kids to school in the dark and end up more depressed waking up and going to work themselves in the dark.

Russia tried permanent daylight time for a couple of years and ended up switching to permanent standard time: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29773559

For southern and middle USA , it’s not going to be a big deal, either option likely works. For Northern USA and Canada I fear going to daylight time is going to be terrible but once it’s down there won’t be any easy way to switch.

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Re:Case for making Standard Time permanent by vhodges on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:24PM (#38115905)

I am in the Lower Mainland (BC) and it's still dark(ish) at 8am. I've resigned myself to just getting up at 2am-3am in the winter - but it means crashing at 7-8pm. Note it probably is the shorter days that cause this as I have no problem staying up late in the summer (dusk is at 9:30pm or so for me on the solstice)

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