SaucyWrong
18 hours ago
This is the wrong call, we should have gone for permanent standard time instead of this. Permanent DST was tried already in the 1970s and everyone in my parents’ generation tells me it was a complete and total disaster
Ariarule
16 hours ago
1974 was over a half-century ago; it is extremely weak evidence with everything that's changed since then, at best.
quuxplusone
15 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...
Interestingly, DST itself had been standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 less than a decade before that!
IMHO seems like permanent standard time would have been the more logical route (apparently it could have been done at the state level under current federal laws), but "more logical" doesn't always mean "easier to accomplish."
davesque
15 hours ago
Not sure I follow. I can't imagine humanity has evolved much since 1974.
Ariarule
5 hours ago
While human biology hasn't changed in any meaningful sense, technology and US culture have changed dramatically.
jsLavaGoat
18 hours ago
It shouldn't matter. If there are bad effects from lack of daylight regardless of number on wall, the schedule should be changed. Technology lets us do that and communicate about it a lot easier.
Just have winter hours if it affects you. Why can't we do that?
apothegm
9 hours ago
Because the world and the jobs we need to put food on the table and roofs over our heads work on whatever the local time is and don’t allow for waking up on standard time if your locale is running on DST?