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?

  • mr_noxx@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 hours ago

    From what I understand, traffic collisions dramatically increase whenever there’s a time change. Any benefit that we ever got from having Daylight Savings Time died out around 70 years ago, so what’s the point in continuing something that no longer benefits us and is proven to be a safety issue to the general population? That we’re even debating this in 2026 really confuses me.

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          1 hour 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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              57 minutes ago

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

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                7 minutes ago

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

                Daylight-saving time fucks with our daily schedule twice a year for no reason.

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                  4 minutes ago

                  You think losing 2-3 hours of sunlight would make “zero impact”? I don’t. And yes, if it’s sunny when you’re asleep, and dark when you’re awake, you lost the sunlight.