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Any chance you can start and leave work earlier, and get the same effect?

• phillc73 9y ago
  Only if everyone else did the same thing and my son's school decided to start an hour earlier too.
  • mchannon 9y ago
    Given that everyone else could be doing the same thing if they are driven by natural daylight, and not what some clock on the wall tells them to do, maybe everyone else _would_ do the same thing, including your son's school. I think there's a case to be made of Stockholm syndrome going on with the fans of daylight saving time. Meanwhile, everybody under its control suffers.
    • nicky0 9y ago
      DST really is a very clever behavioural hack. You could never convince every school, workplace etc to change its hours in a coordinated way. But everyone changes their clock and poof it's done.
• alistairSH 9y ago
  That's the rub. For that to work, we have to convince everybody to come in to work earlier. Including schools (which is proven harmful to adolescents). Yeah, on a day with no meetings, I can pretty much come and go as I please. But, as soon as somebody on the west coast schedules a 4pm (eastern) meeting, I'm stuck. Same thing on the other end of the day meet with peers in Bangalore.