“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.”
“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.”
As someone who emigrated from the US to a more reasonable country, I really hate having to remember the time of year to calculate the time difference when I need to contact people in the US.
Even though permanent DST makes more sense, I’d take either.
I absolutely agree that permanant DST is preferred, and am shocked that that’s the proposal here, as usually the idea is to make standard time permanant. I work in an office, so I don’t care how dark or light it is when I get up in the morning, but I’d kill for more time after work. I’ve, of course, tried to get my office to allow me to shift my schedule but that doesn’t fly of course.
I wouldn’t. Sun comes up at 4:30 in the summer in Japan and you can see first light at 3. They really need to move ahead an hour, and if the US did permanent standard time instead of DST it’d be the same. Time zones in the US are already pretty big though. In the western areas of some time zones the summer sunset is at 9 PM (which I don’t mind, but most people probably wouldn’t want that so much).