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But I think it's impossible to coordinate the change in schedules. You'd have too many defectors and the whole thing would fall apart. I'd think that if all go

But I think it's impossible to coordinate the change in schedules. You'd have too many defectors and the whole thing would fall apart. I'd think that if all government agencies including schools switched their schedules at the DST point, most companies would quickly fall in line. And ideally lots of companies who currently have fixed hours would realize they don't actually need them. At the very least, stop mucking with the changeover date every few years and breaking millions of software installations.

dreeves 15y ago
That's persuasive. You might be right. It's a tough sell though: Come on everyone, time to start waking up earlier! Up and at 'em! Daylight's a-wastin'! (Yeah, imagining that collective groan has brought me back from the brink of changing my mind! It could never happen without the clock-shift hack.) I agree about not changing the changeover date; that seriously compounds the hassle of it. Any clock that auto-adjusts on the old schedule has to be manually adjusted 4 times per year!
- morsch 15y ago
  And of course, if you manage to do it without the hack, you still end up with many of the downsides, disrupted sleep schedules and whatnot.