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?

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        13 hours ago

        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.

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          13 hours ago

          About 8 hours before noon, and about 8 hours after. That’s… as it should be.

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            13 hours ago

            So your argument is “Oh, the math is pretty, so we should make our actual daily schedule worse” ???

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              12 hours ago

              This has zero impact on our daily schedule except for the numbers we assign to them.

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                  10 hours ago

                  To take your example:

                  almost nobody is up at 4-5 AM, and almost everybody wants to stay out from 7-9 PM in the summer.

                  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”

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                    10 hours ago

                    why yes, that is the point, more sunlight is better! which is why less sunlight is worse, and we shouldn’t switch to less sunlight. <3