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Since we just had daylight savings time.
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)because of the time change. With permanent DST, the time changes stop.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,998 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)than usual, or had to get up an hour or so earlier than usual. Or ever crossed a time zone or two.
MisterNiceKitty
(422 posts)But maybe they can revert the time change back to the April-October period before the unnecessary expansion in 2005
introduced by Ed Markey. This might be the closest we get to splitting the difference.
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)It's nice to get going a little earlier in the summer when the sun is up earlier.
It's beyond stupid to do it in the winter. Why would you hustle to get to work/school BEFORE DAWN?
BlueKentuckyGirl
(402 posts)I love DST! I love it that it doesn't get dark until later! Gives me much more time after it has warmed up to do outdoor activities! Who cares that sunrise comes an hour later. I'd rather have the daylight in the evening when I can enjoy it.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)Some Brit hundreds of years ago decided the longitude passing through Greenwich was going to mark absolute time, and sailors with newly invented clocks could see how far the sun was off it and know how far across the Atlantic or Pacific they'd come. It is meaningless unless you're a sailor with a timepiece, it's utterly arbitrary.
DST works a lot better for the modern world and England is no longer the center of an empire, save a money laundering empire for tinpot dictators all over the world. With DST, people working office hours will see a slice of daylight instead of getting up and going home in the dark. Kids will be able to play outside for a bit when they get home.
It won't be so damned depressing.
Nobody likes switching back and forth, that's what is crazy. We need DST as a permanent thing, and Greenwich can go back to being just another boring small city.