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Bad idea. TimeZones and DST are for humans and physical realities, such as the tilt of the earth and circadian rhythms. And they serve to address these things
by mdavis6890 5y ago
Bad idea.
TimeZones and DST are for humans and physical realities, such as the tilt of the earth and circadian rhythms. And they serve to address these things in a universal, coordinated way rather than asking each of us to change our schedules individually.
During DST, we all agree to start our days, open our business, and adjust our schedules one hour earlier, but without changing our individual clock times.
With DST all year long, can we choose to send our children to school at 9:30 instead of 8:30 during the winter? Should the school have a different winter schedule than a summer one? Or should we just wake up our young children well before dawn and drag them off?
- notreallyserio 5y ago> Or should we just wake up our young children well before dawn and drag them off? We already do this, FWIW. It's terrible for them but I guess we do it out of convenience for the bus drivers and parents. Changing clocks twice a year hasn't and won't address the problem, unfortunately.
- asdff 5y agoThis is much better for children imo. During my childhood the sun rose as I got into school in the winter (~7:45am) so I was still waking up before dawn, and was setting or set by the time I got done with extracurriculars and my parents finished working (~5:30pm). In other words, for half the year I would simply not see the sun or have any sunlight hit my skin unless time was explicitly made for that during the limited daylight hours on weekends. It's no wonder so many people are vitamin D deficient when they spend half the year as a troglodyte.