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?

  • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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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.