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[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 117 points 3 weeks ago (64 children)

one day we will just stick with daylight time. its kind of a slap in the face to lose your only hour of sunlight after work!

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (19 children)

I say this every year: FUUUUUUUUCK THAT.

With permanent DST the latest sunrise in Detroit would be 0900. That's fucking absurd. All across the US kids would be waiting for the school bus in the dark, walking to those bus stops in the dark. My personal beef with it is that I, and many of the people that make the world go 'round, start at 0600. We need to see ASAP for safety, if nothing else.

The US tried it in the early '70s, didn't even finish the two year trial period:
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1087280464/the-u-s-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-1970s-then-quickly-rejected-

Fuck DST. If people really want it to stay light until 2100 in the summer then so be it but don't make a lot of the working class labor half their day in the dark in the depths of winter.

[–] Rivalarrival 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

With permanent DST the latest sunrise in Detroit would be 0900.

The entire nation doesn't need to be following year round the schedule that Detroit school kids need from November to January.

The better solution for this little problem is to go ahead and shift the entire country to permanent DST, and move Detroit from the Eastern time zone to the Central time zone. Latest sunrise in Detroit is now 8AM. Your complaint is resolved, without either of us being forced to switch our clocks twice a year.

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