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Twice a year the entire country collectively agrees the clock change is annoying, unhealthy, and pointless, and then somehow we still keep doing it.
I recall this had gained momentum under Biden but ultimately failed for what I can only perceive as the GOP not wanting that W to happen under the Dems.
From what I understand parents were freaking out about having their kids outside in the dark either before or after school, I don't remember which. That's the only argument against it I think I've ever heard.
I used to wait at the bus stop in the winter at 6am when it was still pitch black out.
It would be light before the bus got there and dark again within two hours of getting home.
This was in Minneapolis, but I lived in the south side while going to a specialized program at North High, the other side of the city, so it wasn't typical.
Anywhere in the north quarter of the continental US already has kids waiting for the bus in the dark, regardless of DST. It's a poor argument from the get go
Yeah and they don’t heave time to enjoy the morning light before school anyway. It’s after school when we need the extra sun (which is still quite limited in northern states).
I mean you get screwed on one side of the equation anyway just because of sunlight hours shortening by the season. Hell, Alaskans have months without meaningful sunlight. And then months with basically 24h sunlight. Unless jobs were to adjust their hours with the seasons theres no way not to get screwed at some point.
There's an appreciable increase in cardiovascular events and car accidents when we lose an hour. For that reason alone we should stop the stupid clock changing.
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Which is so damn stupid. Either shut up, because the northern part of the country and other countries manage this without whinging about it,
OR get involved locally and change the school start time.
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This goes up for vote almost yearly at this point and fails because no one can agree on which schedule to use.
See the rest of the comments lol.
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I don’t want to see another article about this until it’s finally fucking done.
How will all the people who make a living writing articles about this find work? Especially now that all of the "My 2 cents: The debate and history of the penny" article writers are also jobless.
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Oh hey, it's that one thing I agree with Trump on.
for me it's this and the penny. pennies are stupid. sorry not sorry.
Good call. He finally had 2 sane ideas!
While we're at it nickels and dimes are pretty stupid too
I guess we can add on marijuana rescheduling
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The real answer is, the world should just run on UTC. No timezones. No confusion. When it says 12:00 UTC, it's the same time everywhere on the planet, regardless of the sun being up or not.
This is only a good idea when you don't think about it.
That's like all my ideas. What's that mean for me?
You're a visionary and should be made CEO of major tech companies.
This is the dumbest fucking idea I've seen yet. Far, far worse than daylight savings time.
End the AM/PM stuff too!
Actually a decent part of the world uses 24h scheme, and it works fine.
While you're at it, adopt a logic date format.
dd/mm/yyyy makes sense.
yyyy-mm-dd makes sense.
mm/dd/yyyy is an abomination
Digest that, and when you're ready, we'll talk about your backward units system...
Not changing time is good when one travels a lot. If one does not travel much, one single time is hardly useful. However, there are merits to the idea.
They kind of do that in China. All parts of China officially use Beijing time, even though the easternmost part is an hour ahead and the westernmost part three hours behind. In Xinjiang, they mostly just ignore it and use local time.
Except when students have national scale exams. In Xinjiang, they start near the end of the night...
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I think it would take a bit of getting used to, but I would not be opposed to this.
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Every health and safety expert who isn’t the Chamber of Commerce hoping for longer shopping hours agrees that permenant Standard Time would be superior and that permenant DST would be, in fact, deadly.
Also we did permenant DST and hated it. We just hated it so much we abolished it immediately and promptly forgot we ever tried it.
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.
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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Permanent DST is equivalent to permanent standard time with business hours moved an hour earlier. I assume that standard business hours were originally set by businesses to maximize profits—so if permanent earlier hours are better for business than permanent standard hours, why didn’t businesses set earlier hours to begin with?
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Democratic California did this before Trump. Trump wants something California did. He wants it bad.
Let him have it. This is how you manipulate people like him.
Good, please do this. It's so fucking unnecessary to change the clock, and it's a nonpartisan issue. I bet someone could do a deep analysis of how much it costs us each year during that hour time change, people showing up late, missing appointments, traffic patterns, etc.
🕒 The Real Cost of "Springing Forward"
Changing the clocks isn't just annoying—it is a massive, self-inflicted tax on our health, safety, and economy. Here is what that one hour of lost sleep actually costs us every year:
- 💸 The Direct Economic Hit: Economic analysis pegs the immediate cost of the spring transition at over 672 million dollars in lost productivity, wages, and medical costs.
- 📉 The Productivity Crash: Workplace productivity drops by roughly 20% on the Monday following the time change.
- 🚗 Danger on the Roads: Fatal car accidents spike by 6% during the first workweek of Daylight Saving Time, as millions of sleep-deprived commuters are suddenly forced back into driving in pitch-black morning conditions.
- 🏥 Severe Health Spikes: Heart attacks increase by 24% on the Monday after the shift. Workplace injuries jump by 5.7%, and because workers are fatigued, those injuries tend to be far more severe—resulting in 67.6% more days lost from work.
- 💡 The "Energy Saving" Myth: The original excuse for DST was to save energy, but modern studies show the actual global savings are a microscopic 0.3%. In fact, many regions see energy bills go up because of increased morning heating and extended evening air conditioning.
The Bottom Line: We are tanking our health, risking lives on the road, and bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars every single year—all to chase a century-old lighting rule that doesn't even save energy anymore.
Am i right in thinking that your intro and 'bottom line' are handwritten, but the middle section (emoji-laden and sprinkled with overconfident sourceless statistics) is AI generated?
Exactly my thought when I read that. Absolutely reads like AI in the middle.
You're not just right [idk how to type an emdash on mobile] you're dead on. Their comment was absolutely written by AI and [emdash] by the way [emdash] you're just really smart. Additionally, I'd argue that including the AI generated portion of their comment doesn't only make no sense [emdash] it's an absolutely bizarre decision.
Your BS AI generated rundown didn't even mention the cost to software development. Dealing with DST is a thorn in my side, it's definitely cost the company I work for tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars just in the few years I've been there.
What prompt did you use to generate the middle of your comment
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Ending the clock change is good, but do it on solar time.
People who want permanent DST are free to just get up an hour early.
Hardly anyone is free to get up an hour later to accomodate their inner clock.
I’m free to get up an hour early, but not free to leave work an hour early. The entire benefit to me is not having to spend 3 months without seeing the sun after work.
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The year is 2026, and the US government bickers over what time it is and minimum wage is less than eight dollars an hour and corporations are people and JUST END IT
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So this is why he doesn't have time to attend his son's wedding
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