I hope we keep Standard Time. I hate waking up to darkness. I would rather it be dark at 6pm when I leave work.If it changes permanently I hope we keep the DST.
I hate the dark and think that early morning daylight hours are a waste. When I worked I was too busy rushing around getting ready to go to work and now that I'm retired-I'm not getting up at the crack of dawn!
There, I said it.
I knew an aerospace scientist named Peter Glaser from Arthur D. Little who actually proposed this.
Based on the solar map posted by @foxcreek9, the eastern edge of the Central Time Zone should be further east than it is today (15 degrees of longitude). It should include the entire states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan. Then it will be safer to have DST all year round.
But the post I responded to didn't say anything about changing to DST year round. Moving those zones further east, without changing to DST or otherwise moving the clocks ahead, would just make it dark very early in December in those eastern parts of the time zone. It already gets dark too soon in Chicago, so it would be even worse in those areas to the east if they were suddenly included in the central time zone.
I've been saying this for decades, since I first had conference calls (phone calls) across time zones! Outlook now uses UTC behind the scenes, so it knows that 3pm ET is noon PT, but it used to be a huge pain. I don't know why it matters if we wake up at 7am or 1100 hours, or eat lunch at noon or 1600 hours, there's nothing sacred about midnight or the time of day. But I have found that very few people agree with us!I like the idea of doing away with time zones worldwide so that everyone is on "universal time". If you set up a Zoom meeting for 14:00, it's the same time no matter where you are in the world.
What would happen if we abolished time zones altogether?
Switching time is bad for our health, can exacerbate political tension and hinder trade. So a small group of academics wants to do away with time zones for goodwww.wired.com
Because where I live people don’t want sunrise at 4 something in the morning during summer (standard time year round) or sunrise at 915 during winter for those on the western edge of eastern time zone. Changing the time zone boundaries would help, but that will never happen.
The sun is going to come up and go down at times more and less convenient to the places that have to maintain "hours of business". There are plenty of businesses that maintain their own calendar (summer hours start on such and such day, and last until...) But there are other businesses that keep the same hours all year long, and let DST do the heavy lifting. Under the no DST proposal, the businesses that like the government's schedule and don't have to put effort into making their own calendar would have more work to do.
Yeah, pretty much, ha ha.
Why do you have to force yourself to stay in bed longer? Why not get up at 4am and go to bed an hour earlier which should feel natural.
Maybe the coffee pot triggers at 5am. No need getting up before then. Wait a minute... I gotta find the coffee pot user manual to figure out how to change the clock on it.
Ha ha.
Most employers are quite aware of the local school schedule. Even small employers with no parents for employees will see big differences in commute times based on the school schedule. Although I work with some 24-hour call center people (help/info lines, not sales!), and since their work is all on the phone, they can work from home anywhere in the country. But they already need to arrange for differing shifts that meet if not overlap, so it shouldn't be that different.
