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?

  • Zerlyna@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I didn’t care until I had to take care of my niece. During half of the school year it’s dark outside going to the bus. And why are we fighting what nature intended our body clocks to be? I have to get up for work at 4:30AM, it really sucks even with blackout curtains to get the room dark at 8-9PM.

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      10 hours ago

      So why not keep time as a constant and if individual places want to change times they can do that

      Even just single states can have vastly different sunrise and sunset times and changing 300m people’s schedules so that a few people can have a few extra minutes of sun in the morning for part of the year seems absolutely ridiculous

      A local school district could very easily do a 1 hour shift as the sunrise gets later so that it properly aligns with their local school pickup times

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        9 hours ago

        Exactly! Why does no one ever consider changing the time they do something instead of making the whole country adjust to time change? I know with schools, maybe their starting times are geared to when parents have to be a work or something, but surely they can figure out how to adjust their particular schedules around their particular needs and leave the rest of us alone.