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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    3 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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        3 hours ago

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

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          2 hours 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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            2 hours 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.

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              18 minutes 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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                12 minutes 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