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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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