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In 2022, the American Medical Association called for a permanent end to Daylight Savings Time, citing negative effects on health (www.ama-assn.org)

submitted 3 months ago by pimento64@sopuli.xyz to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

East Coast, standard time please.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

4:30 sunrise in June just feels wrong to me.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tbf, 5:00 sunset on standard time is not ideal for me either. But a lot more acceptable than having to suddenly adjust sleep because capitalists want to make more money.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The more I think about it, 8 am sunrise if we did permanent DST in late Dec/early January would be shit too. We should just split the difference, lol

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 3 months ago

I'm okay with that!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Arizona is used to it. When I drove through in July I swear the sun es already high at 4

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You get used it it. Somehow the majority of the world where DST isn't observed has no problem with an earlier sunrise. Makes it easier to be a "morning" person, if anything.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Makes it easier to be a "morning" person, if anything.

Morning people already get enough perks. Why do I want to help those judgemental pricks?

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Because if you want to help them, you give them DST, so the sun can rise an hour into their day. DST literally delays the progress of morning and makes more of it, it makes you get up an hour earlier in the morning.

[–] joe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"East Coast" doesn't provide enough information. If you look at a map of America and draw a straight line south from the western end of Massachusetts, it doesn't really touch another state at all, just the ocean. What really needs to happen is that the Northeast needs to be in a different time zone, and then we stick to standard time. But as it is now, it really sucks being in EST in the winter in the northeast, which is why so many of us prefer permanent DST, when given the choice without the option of being in a different time zone.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Split the time zones in half and offset them by an hour.