The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.
So much of the country is dark at 5pm on standard time. With the work day centered around 9-5, having some daylight at the end of the day would be nice. I always thought the solution would be making the work day center on 8-4, but work til the sun goes down has been engrained in our society for a long time.
Permanent standard time is objectively better, if anyone bothered to listen to the experts the opinion is clear. Last time we tried permanent dst it didn’t last through the first winter, because people hated it
Plus it’s been studied, having groggy people driving to work in the dark causes a lot more accidents than driving home in the dark
what i don’t get is why the focus is on permanent DST, i thought permanent standard time would be better
Doesn’t matter to me, I just hate flopping from one to the other.
So much of the country is dark at 5pm on standard time. With the work day centered around 9-5, having some daylight at the end of the day would be nice. I always thought the solution would be making the work day center on 8-4, but work til the sun goes down has been engrained in our society for a long time.
Permanent standard time is objectively better, if anyone bothered to listen to the experts the opinion is clear. Last time we tried permanent dst it didn’t last through the first winter, because people hated it
Plus it’s been studied, having groggy people driving to work in the dark causes a lot more accidents than driving home in the dark