Daylight Savings Time to become year round

I enjoy the shift to DST. It signals the end of winter for me. That extra hour or light in the evening is a game changer for my morale. I don't care if its dark when I wake up. I'm up 2 hours before the sun regardless. I work in an office, and I don't care if its dark for the first hour I'm there. My morning routine does not change based on what time sunrise is.

My evening routine does though. After DST, I can run after work, kids can go outside to play, I'll spend significantly more time outside, which is great for mental health. I think we should shift it even more, maybe 1.5 hours.

Its the best. No idea why we would want to take this away. You're slightly tired for one day and adjust, its not a big deal. You all act like you've never taken a flight.

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problem with that approach is if you wait until the hardest things get passed that nobody will ever agree on, all the low hanging fruit never gets settled. I say go ahead and pass this small stuff.

I run at 5:00 am so I could be to work on time. I've run in the dark most of the year for decades. It's not a problem. I do workouts and tempo runs. I live in a neighborhood with street lights.

The real bonus- there is literally no traffic to deal with.

Suck it Ben Franklin! The idea that we would mess with one of our universal standards, the measure of time, for the sake of convenience was always a stupid idea. Change the hours of doing business, not the standard of time.

it’s like making the length of a meter shorter early in the season to scale the distance to match fitness level so that everyone runs the same time throughout the year. it just creates confusion.

Never EVER fvcking mess with your universal standards!

Now we need to all switch to Greenwich Mean Time so everyone is on the same clock, then world peace will reign forever.

lol “important “ things don’t get passed. Where have you been?

Seriously, I'm disgusted by this decision.

I don't like the idea that Arizona is still on standard time. The whole US should be on standard time.

I don't get why farmers even care. The amount of sunlight in a day doesn't change, and tending to animals doesn't have to be done at a certain time. If daylight is 7:45-4:30 or 8:45-5:30, doesn't matter. And there are things called lights if you really need that extra early hour. And as other people said, when the sun doesn't come up until 8 currently people are already waking up and going to work in the dark as it is, and then they get off work in the dark. I live in Minnesota, 7:48 and 4:34 is the sunrise sunset on shortest day of the year, no one is out enjoying the sun from 7:48-8:48 because they're at school or work, and then it's dark by the time they're done with work. It'd be nice to have that sunset at 5:34 so that we can get a little bit of sun after work/school.

Again, numerous studies have found that it would be much better for kids to have their school days start later. There are districts that have already changed their start times even when we're using Standard Time. Parents have managed. And I was teaching when we had the era of year round DST. Yes, it was dark when we left for school. We managed. No one died.

I get up at 5:15 for work and don’t get home until 4:30-5:00. That extra hour of light at the end of the day will be a blessing since I run after work. Dark morning runs are better than dark night runs imo.

It's better for kids to go to school later, and what later means to the body is that it has been light for a while. By making DST permanent, they insure that it will be dark much closer to school start time, so they'll be more tired and worse students. And yes, some people will die from being hit by tired drivers who can't see in the dark. But mostly it will just worsen school performance.

The studies I've read about school opening times do not mention anything about how long it's been light. Do you have a link to some that do?

I can't wait, so many can quit saying "savings" instead of "saving." This isn't Grammar Police BS, you either say the words right or you donut.

Oh, and boo-hoo you have to run in the dark in the mornings. I've been running in the dark in the evenings my whole life.

No more extra hour of sleep before NYC Marathon. :-(

Sunrise and sunset is all over the place within a time zone. For example, for today (it is nearly the equinox), for the Eastern Time Zone.

Portland, Maine: 6:49a : 6:49p (far to the east and north)

Miami, FL: 7:27a : 7:31a (far to the south)

Indianapolis, IN: 7:53a : 7:54p (far to the west)

New York, NY: 7:04a : 7:05p (same north from the equator as Indianapolis)

There is more than one hour difference in sunrise and sunset in the same time zone from east to west (Portland vs. Indianapolis). There is about a 40-minute difference from north to south Portland vs. Miami.

How do people cope with above?

How do people cope with living in one time zone and working in another? Such as, living in Gary, Indiana (Eastern TZ) and working in Chicago (Midwest TZ)?

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"Daylight-saving time (singular saving) is technically the correct version: the practice is saving daylight. Still, daylight-savings time (with the plural savings) is so commonly used that it’s become an accepted variant of daylight-saving time."

Grammar is not a constant. It evolves over time. In the 1800s "&" was the 27th letter of the alphabet.

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Should You Say "Daylight-saving Time" Or "Daylight-savings Time"?

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Twice a year, our clocks move forward or turn back, in an effort known as "daylight-saving time." What are we saving exactly, and should it be "savings"?

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