In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

  • derf82@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While we might not love going to work in pitch black, we don’t care to have all our evening in it, either. As you say, the total amount of daylight is the same, so we have to pick our poison. I’d rather have more light in the evening. I will hate the 5pm darkness that comes tomorrow.

    Morning our schedules is no better than moving out clocks.

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      1 year ago

      We’re kind of having the same argument in two different threads … I’m not sure which thread is better.

      Morning our schedules is no better than moving out clocks.

      It’s objectively better! “Moving clocks” is effectively the same as moving schedules for individuals, but to practically coordinate with others, everybody must change their clock and therefore their schedule. Individuals and organizations already construct their schedules as needed.

      Part of the issue is that we all work too damn much, anyways. The 40 hour, 5 day work week (and thus the 9-to-5) is an arbitrary concept that research has indicated may be just as effective as a shorter work week.

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        1 year ago

        We have to have schedules. We have to have some consistency of time. I change my schedule, I will be out of sync with everyone else.

        Yeah, we should work less, but we don’t have much of a choice. I think we are more apt to get year round DST than a shorter week.