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[–] 50 points 5 months ago* (12 children)

Every health and safety expert who isn’t the Chamber of Commerce hoping for longer shopping hours agrees that permenant Standard Time would be superior and that permenant DST would be, in fact, deadly.

Also we did permenant DST and hated it. We just hated it so much we abolished it immediately and promptly forgot we ever tried it.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Big agree with this. Permanently DST sucks, and we have historical basis for that claim. Anyone above a certain latitude is going to loathe this change any anyone southern enough to not feel as much of the earths tilt wont notice much of a difference. Depending how far east you are in your timezone will change how it effects you too.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Being on the far east end of a time zone sucks in the winter. I suspect longitude is a bigger factor than latitude.

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  • When I look at how far east the Maritimes of Canada go I'm not surprised they use a half hour timezone, if anything I'm just surprised they didn't just adopt the full hour earlier. If you go just about straight north from St. John's you'll end up in a part of Greenland that does use the full hour earlier.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Permanent DST is equivalent to permanent standard time with business hours moved an hour earlier. I assume that standard business hours were originally set by businesses to maximize profits—so if permanent earlier hours are better for business than permanent standard hours, why didn’t businesses set earlier hours to begin with?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I'm still hugely in favor of a permanent dlst. It fucking sucks to be dark as hell before you even get home from a normal work day. If you're going to cage the public till 5pm, at least give the opportunity at a brief bit of light.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It fucking sucks to be dark as hell before you even get home from a normal work day.

    The solution for that is adjusting working hours, not the clocks.

    Noon should always be the hour nearest the sun's peak.

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