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It's fascinating to see that almost everyone wants to move a zone eastward (except Indiana, apparently the state with the smartest people). This is similar to m
by gpvos 8y ago
It's fascinating to see that almost everyone wants to move a zone eastward (except Indiana, apparently the state with the smartest people). This is similar to many of the original recent proposals for abolishing the twice-yearly time change in Europe, where many countries wanted to stay with summer time instead of going to permanent standard (or "winter") time. For most countries, this would be bad, especially in winter, when children would have to go to school in total darkness. Luckily in several European countries there is some grass-roots activism now to move to standard time instead. (In fact, I and many others think that France, the Benelux and certainly Spain should move a time zone westward, and move to permanent standard time.)
Russia moved to permanent summer time a few years ago, but it was a disaster and they moved to permanent standard time a few years later.
- RankingMember 8y ago> For most countries, this would be bad, especially in winter, when children would have to go to school in total darkness. School start times themselves can (and possibly should) change to be later anyways. https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start-times/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start-times/index.html I personally much prefer sticking with summer time, as I like getting out of work and still having some time to do things in the light during the winter months.
- rootbear 8y agoIf school start times can change, so can work hours. If one has the flexibility, one can go into work early and leave early when it's still light outside. Employers should be encouraged to allow this.
- gpvos 8y agoThe entire reason why we have twice-yearly time changes is that it is apparently harder to change school and work times.
- burfog 8y agoFor that, we just need to coordinate things. This could be solved by a few designated rescheduling days. They can be the 2 times when we currently mess with clocks, or we could have 4 of them. On such days, all government functions (schools, government employment, etc.) switch to different times as desired. They can switch by more or less than an hour, as desired. Private business can follow along, or not. We'd encourage them to do so. Government contractors clearly would.
- RankingMember 8y agoI agree, but I think uniformly altering work hours would prove much more difficult than doing so for schools.
- magduf 8y agoExactly. Schools are usually government-run, so if the government wants to, they can change the school hours easily. Businesses aren't run by the government, so the government doesn't usually have any power over the businesses' operating hours.
- echelon 8y agoI don't have kids, but I want more daylight hours. Permanent summertime is fantastic from my perspective.
- bluetidepro 8y ago> except Indiana, apparently the state with the smartest people lol - Being from Indiana, couldn't help but laugh at this statement.
- zxcvbn4038 8y ago$10 says that Texas tries to become its own timezone. $20 says each Kardashian forms their own timezone. Beiber Time and the Pepsi Meridian will be a thing also. [Insert Miller time joke here]
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- joezydeco 8y agoDon't forget Margaritaville where it's always 5pm.
- artimaeis 8y agoReally depends where you are on the globe in terms of latitude. Russia is a gargantuan country that currently spans 12 time zones, I don't think there's a single solution that can cover it, especially given that the southernmost portions of the country (mainland) are around 41° and the northernmost parts are around 77°N. I think the US tends to be much simpler in this regard (49°N-24°N - contiguous states). It seems in much of the country you really do get a more optimized time for sunrise/sunset if we all moved over 1 time zone: http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/ http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...
- gpvos 8y agoI think it's also dependent on whether you are a morning or an evening person. I'm very much the latter, and if there was more sunlight early in the morning I would better be able to get up and be on time at work with less stress. I can continue as late as I want in the evening or night without outside light, so I have little need for a later sunset.
- Asooka 8y agoRussia didn't move to a single timezone, they moved all their timezones to permanent daylight savings time and later moved them one hour back to permanent standard time.
- chadlavi 8y agoIndiana does the Arazona thing, where they don't do time change. They likely want to stick with it.
- jsymolon 8y ago> when children would have to go to school in total darkness Please stop with this ... For a few months, there's not enough daylight to avoid the darkness, unless the school day is 4 hours long. Some kids in my area have bus pickups at 6:30 am, which is dark in the winter months. Up near the Arctic circle, they have darkness 6 months of the year.