President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
If we had year-round DST, the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8 AM in the winter.
And yet the happiest countries in the world spend most of the day in winter in darkness, some completely.
Though to be fair most of that has to do with how the governments tend to be more socialist.
That’s just being happy despite the darkness. Without it it would probably be better.
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First country from that happeness list on the suicide rankings is Finland and that’s #38, behind the US that’s at #31.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
I wake up at 6:45-7 most days and it’s not like it’s bright then either. I would MUCH prefer an hour more of daylight after I get off work
That’s totally fine.
It’s worse for your sleep and for your health.
I ink it really depends, to be honest.
I know I get a bit grim with winter reducing activities. What is impossible to tease out is just how much of this is weather changing with time zone.
I ink what matters most is the population centres and how they’re affected - my thinking is if most of the population is grouped in places that benefit from being ‘more livable’ because they’re not as dark and damp through ones daily experiences, then it’d be worth keeping.
I live in NZ and think itd be great here, but we’re quite far from the equator, so get a lot of dawn and dusk (I feel like it would have a big affect here, and in my perspective, it would be broadly positive for _most folks _). It’s shocking how much of an improvement DST makes in just the basic liveability - by the weather has generally been subtly improving for a few weeks as well, which completely waters down my argument
If DST wasn’t a thing, it would still not get dark in the summer time until after 9PM for me. I’d rather stay on permanent DST because winter is absolutely miserable when it’s dark until mid-late morning, dreary, rainy, and overcast all “day”, and then dark again by mid-afternoon.
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At least it wouldn’t set before I leave work !
I live in the PNW, USA. It’s dark when I get to work and when I get home. I’d rather have light at the end of my day. Winter/standard time is terrible.