mr_noxxMar 5

What are the arguments *against* ending Daylight Savings Time in the USA?

https://lemmy.ml/post/44069929

What are the arguments *against* ending Daylight Savings Time in the USA? - Lemmy

This seems like such a simple thing to me, and yet the US just can’t seem to get it done. What are the issues preventing this?

Show threadScrubblesMar 5
BC/Vancouver just removed it but made it DST year round. My only worry against that is that mornings would be hella dark. For where I live, sunrise in the winter (standard time) is around 7:55AM, meaning that’s crack of dawn first light. Spring forward, so 7:55 becomes 8:55, meaning our first sunlight of the day won’t be until about 9am. Now, our evenings will be a bit longer (sunset is around 4-4:30, so now 5-5:30, but still most people won’t even see sunrise.
Show threadSuck_on_my_Presence

I live basically on the border on the US side and pray that BC changing will allow WA to change.

Full DST is better imo. Having light after work/school/the day makes the dark months so much more tolerable. Helps alleviate my SAD partially, personally.

Mar 5 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadleadoreMar 5
The problem is that if you’re far enough North, the days are so short that if you work full time, no amount of clock-adjusting will keep you from either going to work or going home in the dark.
Show threadRooster326Mar 6

Going to work while the sun comes up, and going home after it has gone down feels a hell of a lot worse than the opposite.

Literally “working the day away”.

Want to enjoy sunlight? ~~Go fuck yourself. ~~Use your 2 appointed days of the week

Show threadleadoreMar 7
Yeah given a choice, I’d rather have light after work instead of before. Unfortunately when I lived in Montana, the winter days were so short that I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark. The only light I saw was going outside during lunch break.