This seems like such a simple thing to me, and yet the US just can’t seem to get it done. What are the issues preventing this?
This seems like such a simple thing to me, and yet the US just can’t seem to get it done. What are the issues preventing this?
From what I understand, traffic collisions dramatically increase whenever there’s a time change. Any benefit that we ever got from having Daylight Savings Time died out around 70 years ago, so what’s the point in continuing something that no longer benefits us and is proven to be a safety issue to the general population? That we’re even debating this in 2026 really confuses me.
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You brought it up. Just look at the chart. Getting rid of Daylight Savings just makes things worse. With our current system, we get sunrises at a reasonable time and sunsets at a reasonable time. It’s not a positive change.
It seems fine to me. What’s the problem?
almost nobody is up at 4-5 AM, and almost everybody wants to stay out from 7-9 PM in the summer. it’s just worse.
About 8 hours before noon, and about 8 hours after. That’s… as it should be.
So your argument is “Oh, the math is pretty, so we should make our actual daily schedule worse” ???
This has zero impact on our daily schedule except for the numbers we assign to it.
Daylight-saving time fucks with our daily schedule twice a year for no reason.
You think losing 2-3 hours of sunlight would make “zero impact”? I don’t. And yes, if it’s sunny when you’re asleep, and dark when you’re awake, you lost the sunlight.
To take your example:
Without daylight-saving time it’s exactly the same except the numbers: “nobody is up at 5-6 AM and everybody wants to stay out from 8-10 PM in the summer”
Is that chart hosted anywhere else?
Who fucking cares? Get blackout curtains if that matters.
I personally have the opposite problem during DST. Because night doesn’t start until 11pm or later where I live from DST, I can’t fall asleep until 12am or later. This is because light blocks the production of melatonin in the body. To fix the problem, I would have to set up blackout curtains all through my house (instead of just my bedroom) and close them all at 9pm just so I can go to bed at 10pm.
Also, removing DST gets rid of the stupid time change without increasing the risk of kids getting run over while walking to school, which is what we’d get if DST was year round.