• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Just don’t do permanent DST. It’s bad for our health, it’s bad for kids, and it doesn’t make sense.

    Just do proper solar time.

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      2 hours ago

      It’s never been proper solar time from the beginning. The timezone boundaries are distorted to align with political boundaries, which messes up any alignment with solar time.

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      10 hours ago

      Times can be adjusted. The problem isn’t the time at which things happen, it’s that it cycles back and forth,

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      12 hours ago

      No thanks. I’m headed to work in the dark regardless if it’s DST or Standard. Let me at least see the sun on my way home.

      • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 hours ago

        Oh, well, I mean, study after study has shown permanent daylight time is terrible for childrens’ development, but if it’s convenient for you I guess we should lol

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          11 hours ago

          Not sure where they did this study, but around here, kids that have to be at school for 8:00 are going in during the dark regardless of DST or not. Plus, they already delayed the switch by nearly a month “for the children” so they are not out in the scary dark for Halloween. So which is it?

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            2 hours ago

            On the solstice sure, but you still increase the number of days per year when that happens.