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That would be great but convincing School Boards of that would be a non-trivial task.

magduf 8y ago
According to someone farther down in the comments here, India has no DST and simply starts school later in the winter. I guess that's just too hard for America?
- stonecharioteer 8y ago
  I'm an Indian and that doesn't ring a bell. School used to start at 8.00 for me. Throughout the year. No dst. When I started working for a European company, it was insane that I had to wind back clocks.
  - magduf 8y ago
    Sorry if I was incorrect. Here's the comment I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318022
rsik 8y ago
DST causes trauma for people with bipolar disorder, heart attacks go up, etc. Also, on a selfish note, it's irritating to program around. DST is a legislative solution to the problem of getting everyone to change scheduling. So why not use legislation to get those school boards to change scheduling directly?
- rsik 8y ago
  downvotes instead of rational arguments? On HN? Either pigs are flying or it's Wednesday again.
  - dang 8y ago
    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Also, going on about downvoting breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- magduf 8y ago
  I can answer this one to some extent, at least for America: the school boards are all run at the local level, which is why our education system is so inconsistent and generally poor, and there's huge resistance to any mandates from the Federal level, and it's like herding cats to get the States to agree on anything. I suppose it should be possible to get State governments to separately legislate that school districts in that state change their hours (since, after all, some states may care more than others, and different states really do have different latitudes which affects their daylight hours), but again it'd have huge resistance since every local school board thinks they know best.
- rmah 8y ago
  The US federal government does not have the power to do that.

According to someone farther down in the comments here, India has no DST and simply starts school later in the winter. I guess that's just too hard for America?

stonecharioteer 8y ago
I'm an Indian and that doesn't ring a bell. School used to start at 8.00 for me. Throughout the year. No dst. When I started working for a European company, it was insane that I had to wind back clocks.
- magduf 8y ago
  Sorry if I was incorrect. Here's the comment I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318022

rsik 8y ago

DST causes trauma for people with bipolar disorder, heart attacks go up, etc. Also, on a selfish note, it's irritating to program around. DST is a legislative solution to the problem of getting everyone to change scheduling. So why not use legislation to get those school boards to change scheduling directly?

rsik 8y ago
downvotes instead of rational arguments? On HN? Either pigs are flying or it's Wednesday again.
- dang 8y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Also, going on about downvoting breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
magduf 8y ago
I can answer this one to some extent, at least for America: the school boards are all run at the local level, which is why our education system is so inconsistent and generally poor, and there's huge resistance to any mandates from the Federal level, and it's like herding cats to get the States to agree on anything. I suppose it should be possible to get State governments to separately legislate that school districts in that state change their hours (since, after all, some states may care more than others, and different states really do have different latitudes which affects their daylight hours), but again it'd have huge resistance since every local school board thinks they know best.
rmah 8y ago
The US federal government does not have the power to do that.