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We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. But I like the idea that midday is when the sun is high

We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. But I like the idea that midday is when the sun is highest. It seems like an argument between morning people and evening people being played out. For farmers, the animals and plants don't watch clock. Children wake up with the sun regardless. Just make it standard all the time anyway. Its not like we "save" it anyway. You can't spend the savings and we "save" it when we have more than enough anyway, we can call it "daylight spending time" to be more accurate.

Wowfunhappy 4y ago
> We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. They're just numbers, but they're also written into our customs and laws. Pushing back the start of school by an hour, for example, would involve many stakeholders and bureaucratic processes, even if it were just in response to permanent DST. IMO, it makes far more sense to adopt permanent standard time. Individual organizations can still switch in the other direction, but defaults are powerful!