“Republicans are once again attempting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with President Donald Trump promising to lead the push to end the longstanding American practice of switching clocks twice a year.”

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Big agree with this. Permanently DST sucks, and we have historical basis for that claim. Anyone above a certain latitude is going to loathe this change any anyone southern enough to not feel as much of the earths tilt wont notice much of a difference. Depending how far east you are in your timezone will change how it effects you too.

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      2 days ago

      but people who are in the far east are much more likely to be affluent or have (local) state-sponsored means to help them see in the morning. plus we have mobile flashlights now

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      3 days ago

      Being on the far east end of a time zone sucks in the winter. I suspect longitude is a bigger factor than latitude.

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        When I look at how far east the Maritimes of Canada go I’m not surprised they use a half hour timezone, if anything I’m just surprised they didn’t just adopt the full hour earlier. If you go just about straight north from St. John’s you’ll end up in a part of Greenland that does use the full hour earlier.