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What does "make daylight savings time permanent" even mean? To stick with daylight savings time all year long and don't adjust for winter and summer? If so sou

• cuddlybacon 6y ago
  It does mean we stop adjusting the clocks twice a year. The question is, do we stick with standard time or daylight savings time. A lot of the changeovers in NA seem to be leaning towards keeping DST year round. As a Canadian, the idea is certainly appealing. Currently it gets dark about 45 mins before work ends. Having a bit of sunlight when you leave is nice. But as pointed out below, sticking with DST is probably worse for highschoolers.
  • NeutronStar 6y ago
    Sunlight is much more important in the mornin. That's when your circadian clock restart, not when the sun goes down. This has already been played out in 1974. I don't understand why we need to retry the experiment.
  • MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
    As a upper midwesterner, I wholeheartedly agree. It's just annoying that the moment I get home from work, it's so dark out I can't jog without a reflective vest or headlamp. The morning is fine because it's no different than when you have to wake up early for work.
• xyse53 6y ago
  What I think it /should/ mean is that 13:00 becomes the center of daylight. Who knows what's in that bill through ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I wish we could stick with Noon as the middle of the day and adjust normal work, school, etc schedule around that. But I'd take "permanent daylight saving".
  • pfranz 6y ago
    I believe that's already an option, but few/none have chosen it. Currently, the two legal options federally are no DST or DST half the year. There are a couple states that have passed laws for permanent DST but are waiting on a federal law before it can be enacted.