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_PresenceMar 5

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.

Show threadleadore
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.
Mar 5 at 10:34pmWeb
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.