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Think of the children!!! EDIT: I should clarify that this is nearly always the argument brought up against year round DST, so that children during winter go to
by joecool1029 10y ago
Think of the children!!!
EDIT: I should clarify that this is nearly always the argument brought up against year round DST, so that children during winter go to school with sunlight in the morning.
- mjevans 10y agoYes, let's think of the children, and let them get the sleep that they need. (I am not a morning person, and really should have had much more sleep after local sunrise.)
- weaksauce 10y agoShift their school cycle to be more in line with the sun.
- petecox 10y agoSpain has this issue. It is in the wrong timezone, which the government changed in the 1940s. Consequently it stays light until 6:30pm in winter. In mountainous regions such as Picos de Europa, towns in the valleys do have kids catching schoolbuses in near darkness at 8:30am. As a traveller I found the experience surreal. Although, we put the clocks forward an hour leading up to the 2000 Olympics so construction workers could work longer.
- danieltillett 10y agoThe 2000 Olympics where held in Sydney :)
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- lucaspiller 10y agoExcept that also depends on your latitude... Here at 57N it's dark until 9pm on Dec/Jan, currently the sun rises at 7am, and in the summer it's only dark for a couple of hours at night. Even with all-round DST it'll still be dark when children go to school in winter.