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Ok, then start school at 8AM one month and 9AM the other month, but don't move the clocks.

• RestlessMind 5y ago
  If school times are going to shuffle around, then ther parents' schedules will also shuffle around. Then we have to shuffle schedules for a big chunk of economy every 6 months. How can we optimize that process? Oh wait, let's just move the time around. Aha - now everyone is synchronized automatically.
  • sosborn 5y ago
    It's interesting that the answer you came to wasn't "we should align parents' schedules with the biologically optimal time too."
    • Riseed 5y ago
      How well does the biologically optimal time for parents line up with the biologically optimal time for any and all of their kids in school?
      • sosborn 5y ago
        The point I was trying to make is that choosing an optimum should be centered around the education of the world's children. Standard business hours are really a case of "well, we've always done it this way so why should we change," rather than "this the best thing for the everyone involved." I think we are moving towards that somewhat, with companies becoming more flexible with working hours/locations in the past year and a half.