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Trump vows to eliminate Daylight Saving Time (www.thecentersquare.com)

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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You think people in California are going to be happy waking up at 3 pm, going to work at 5pm-1am, then going to sleep at 7am?

Yes, other than a 1-time adjustment, it's no less arbitrary than the current times they use.

People are angry that they get an extra hour of sleep one night and lose one another. 2 days out of the year.

They're right to, it literally causes a rise in deaths, with this that goes entirely away, so yay?

You really think you're going to sell these people on waking up at 3 pm and going to bed at 7am?

I'm not sure you'd still use am/pm, but yeah. What intrinsic negative is there? Who cares if they have to be at work at the same point relative to the local day/night cycle but it's named something else.

Working hours being 9am-5pm PST vs 9am-5pm PDT are just numbers

They also come with the baggage of dst and timezones, part of which you list below.

Maine could be in it's own time zone as far east as it really is. The idea that Michigan is in the same time zone is absurd. Michigan should be in CST. That would drop them back an hour. If you talked to someone in Michigan they probably hate DST. Their DST should be their current standard time and then they should fall back to CST if they wanted to do the DST switch thing. They would get a lot more sunlight in the morning.

Yeah, this is all dumb, so why not make all of these oddities go away.