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We should stay on standard time. DST is fucking dumb
If we stay on permanent DST you get to go to work and school in the dark.
Split the two and make half way between dst and st permanent.
Getting there in the dark sounds just fine. I want sunlight during more of my personal hours.
And on standard you come home in the dark. I'm doing more after work than before.
Yes, exactly. With standard time I go to work in the dark and come home to am hour of daylight. I'd love for that to be two hours.
I’ve worked both day and night shifts. My experience with day shift is 90% of the people working it aren’t awake until 9-10am anyway. Pre shift time is “work” adjacent time.
Evenings, on the other hand, are the best. Having a day that lasts into 830-10pm is glorious.
I would love DST permanent, but I understand that it’s not great mentally for school kids to get up and go to school in the dark. I would sacrifice that for the next generation to have a better experience.
But really we should start school later.
No, you're only looking at one half of the argument.
I'm in an area that would benefit greatly from permanent DST. But permanent DST absolutely hoses those in the western parts of time zones in the winter.
The other half is that permanent Standard time is healthier for us.
In what way? Healthiness of a time standardization seems like it would be hard to validate. I personally prefer DST I’ve never considered either healthier or unhealthier. I remember hearing statistics about an abnormal number of car accidents and stuff happening the Monday after DST/ST changes. I’ve also heard some rhetoric about risk of car accidents with kids walking to bus or school being mitigated by standard time.
I’m assuming you mean something less acute than those which are focused on immediate outcomes like death lol? The only thing health related I can think of is daylight exposure and vitamin d levels, but it seems inconsistent whether people are more likely to take advantage of extra morning sunlight or evening sunlight. Seems like it would be a wash?
Anyway, I’m legitimately interested to know what you mean by “healthy”
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10898
Did you actually read the link? The study basically attributes all of the negative effects to the change and not specifically standard time or daylight saving time, so I think what that means is DST is no more or less good for people than standard time. The switching is the part that is harmful.
I did read the link and ~~wonder if you read it~~ know you didn't read past the first few lines.
Also, this is literally everywhere. Go Google it. Ciao.