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> Why don't you go to work an hour earlier? Because I can't. The companies I've worked for have all scheduled required hours according to common business hour

• eMSF 7y ago
  >Only a tiny fraction of the population gets to set their own hours. Well, yes. I was thinking more of flextime. From what I've seen, relatively few people come in as early as possible, even though statistically speaking they should be 50-50 on the DST issue (and favour more daylight after working hours).
  • shantly 7y ago
    K-12 school start times don’t flex. Before-care and dropping off early at daycare cost money.
• _ph_ 7y ago
  But common business hours are set, as the name says, by the common business. And many things in our day to day life in the end are determined by the sun. So if there is a permanent offset in the wall clock, business hours are going to shift to compensate. So changing the time zone might have a short-term impact, but long-term, will be compensated away. Most people have difficulties to raise in the dark, so the day to day schedule will be adjusted so that they have to raise in the dark only for a short part in the year, like 2 months. A time setting which would mean to get up in the dark for 4+ months is going to trigger a compensation. And of course, as a consequence, French people do many things "later" than in Germany, be it work, lunch or dinner times.