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I live in Montana and would very much prefer to keep DST permanent because it means that I come home from work with light. Currently in deep winter when we are

I live in Montana and would very much prefer to keep DST permanent because it means that I come home from work with light. Currently in deep winter when we are on standard time I get up and it's dark and go home and it's dark. Light at the end of the day is useful to me because I can go for a walk around dinner, I don't care so much about it being light in the mornings when I'm getting ready for my day. So I think making DST permanent for northern states would be a good thing.

tzs 2y ago
The counterargument is that morning needs light more than evening because morning schedules are more synchronized than evening schedules and morning road conditions tend to be worse than evening road conditions. So in the morning you've got the highest concentration of cars plus you've got kids walking or biking to school. The school day is shorter than the work day so coming home the kids don't overlap with the workers. There is more time variation in when people leave work when they arrive, and many will do errands between living and driving home, so the cars are less concentrated. Morning also has a higher chance of having worse road conditions. In the evening there is a chance the sun has melted ice patches that formed overnight. There's a chance that the day's traffic has cleared some paths in snow.
madphilosopher 2y ago
Back when I worked an office IT job, one year I asked my boss if I could come in an hour earlier in the winter (and leave an hour earlier after work). I had evening chores to do with my animals on the farm, and I needed the daylight after work. What no one knew was that I just kept my watch on Daylight Savings Time and lived happily ever after. It was glorious. I saw my coworkers struggle with "jetlag" when the switch to Standard Time occurred, and when it went forward again. But I never switched. I kept that up for three years, and I highly recommend it. (I also got a tonne of work done in the hour before everyone else arrived to work.)

tzs 2y ago

The counterargument is that morning needs light more than evening because morning schedules are more synchronized than evening schedules and morning road conditions tend to be worse than evening road conditions. So in the morning you've got the highest concentration of cars plus you've got kids walking or biking to school. The school day is shorter than the work day so coming home the kids don't overlap with the workers. There is more time variation in when people leave work when they arrive, and many will do errands between living and driving home, so the cars are less concentrated. Morning also has a higher chance of having worse road conditions. In the evening there is a chance the sun has melted ice patches that formed overnight. There's a chance that the day's traffic has cleared some paths in snow.

madphilosopher 2y ago

Back when I worked an office IT job, one year I asked my boss if I could come in an hour earlier in the winter (and leave an hour earlier after work). I had evening chores to do with my animals on the farm, and I needed the daylight after work. What no one knew was that I just kept my watch on Daylight Savings Time and lived happily ever after. It was glorious. I saw my coworkers struggle with "jetlag" when the switch to Standard Time occurred, and when it went forward again. But I never switched. I kept that up for three years, and I highly recommend it. (I also got a tonne of work done in the hour before everyone else arrived to work.)