Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. end it, too?

Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by fnordpiglet on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:43AM (#39657208)

If you work with people around the world it’s maddening for them that meetings shift around to times that no longer work for them. It’s actually a huge PITA and there’s no modern reason to do this. This especially impacts people in remote timezones where the 11pm meeting is now 12am, or worse, the 7am meeting is now 6am. People who work at global companies and are seated outside the US are massively inconvenienced by this absurdity.

I’m sure others here will cite the sleep disturbance it causes as well as depression and anxiety due to the sleep disruption. It’s like a tiny jet lag for no practical benefit.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by ipqk on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:59AM (#39657255)

The practical benefit is that, in the summer, you take an hour of sunlight that would normal be around 5-6am where almost no one is awake, and you append it to the evening where nearly everyone will happily appreciate it.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by herewulf on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:50AM (#39657464)

If that's what you appreciate, then feel free to adjust your schedule. Don't drag the rest of us into this. Messing with clocks and changing DST dates is absurd.

If schools, companies, etc want to shift their schedule, then that's on them too.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by ipqk on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:55AM (#39657484)

I'd hardly call a billion people getting to use an extra ~200-240 hours of sunlight a year absurd.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by fnordpiglet on Sunday March 10, 2024 @11:19AM (#39659846)

They can wake up earlier and go to bed earlier. Nothing prevents them from utilizing the sunlight due to a nominal time designation. But the time designation changes the structure of all activity unrelated to sunlight for no obvious reason other than “I don’t want to wake up an hour earlier to get that extra hour of sunlight.”

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by culopatin on Sunday March 10, 2024 @12:35PM (#39660472)

If that’s the case then why don’t we keep the DST permanent? Winter days are short no matter what. Either it’s dark when you leave home or when you wake up.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by fnordpiglet on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:39PM (#39660938)

Being in the PNW I for one would rather the sun go down at 4 in the winter than 3. Losing an hour of sunlight at 10pm in the summer is ok for me. I have blackout shades specifically because the sun is up too late in the summer in the northern US.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by extraduder_ire on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:39AM (#39657416)

I make a habit of getting some sort of world clock set up on any machine I use, so I don't have to think about it. Also try to keep anything international in UTC. Which isn't too hard, because my country is UTC+0 during the winter.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by happymellon on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:25AM (#39657359)

I would say that the thing that's most annoying is that the US changed their DST dates to be 5 weeks different.

It didn't really alter anything materially for them, but I do have to be conscious for these couple of weeks twice a year that all my meeting are now offset by an hour.

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