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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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[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who makes money off of Daylight Savings Time?

I don't know, but I know someone is making a fortune off of it somehow and I want to know who. It's the only explanation

[-] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

The real question is, how can the rich make money off of changing this? As soon as someone figures that out, I'm sure it will change.

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[-] Haunt 5 points 1 day ago

Some traditions are simply stupid and should be discarded.

This is one example.

[-] paequ2@lemmy.today 23 points 1 day ago

God yes. I don't even care which side of DST we land on. As long as we stop changing the damn clock.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

leaving work at dark is the real thing negatively effecting my health.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My friends dad died of a heart attack like 2 days we sprang forward for daylight savings time. Apparently there is a statistical correlation with increased heart attacks during this time likely due to the lost hour of sleep. I'm sure he would have eventually died of a heart attack because of his lifestyle, but I'm quite convinced it was a part of what caused it to happen on that day.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Today has been the absolute worst. Daylight savings shift coinciding with my job becoming absolute trash and my idiotic self doing a Sunday funday yesterday.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It’s pretty obvious the American government doesn’t care about its citizens health. Sick citizens = more shareholder profits for their scam corporations

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of things that I don't like about Arizona but the abolishment of moving to and from DST has been such a great thing to have.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

We should just turn our clocks back to 2019.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

The good old days, when the fire hose would occasionally turn off and we could breathe and participate in folksy traditions like complaining about the clocks.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah i'm not trusting American anything at this moment.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Well that was a non article.

Committing to standard time has health benefits and allows us to end the biannual tug of war between our biological and alarm clocks,” said AMA Trustee Alexander Ding, M.D., M.A, MBA.

So are they saying committing to standard time, or simply committing to a single time?

If they are saying Standard is better that Daylight Savings, then they are complete morons. And it isnt because I like one over the other. The fact is IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER. Just pick one.

Daylight is constantly changing, depending on what latitude you are in. In the northern hemisphere millions of people will gain over an hour of daylight this month alone. Your rhythms are effected by people fucking with the clock, and that is it.

[-] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Standard is better than advanced, which is better than switching.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 47 points 2 days ago

Oh my state passed a law abolishing it but the federal government stopped it. You want to know why? You want to know the stupid reason why the federal government won't abolish daylight savings? Because polling indicates that half of the people want it gone forever and everybody else wants it there forever.

They literally can't decide whether to always have the clock one way or the other, so we get to split the difference. I don't fucking care. Just pick one and stick with it. Everybody has electric lights anyway, it's the 21st century, we need to move on from this 1700s bullshit.

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

Counterpoint: the people who want it there forever should just be told that's what we're doing, they'll be back to licking windows before they realize the difference.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I want us to go in the direction Canada is going with that. It should be the same time in Washington and Oregon that it is in BC

[-] FaygoRedPop@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canada uses metric time though, I think. So, that wouldn't work.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Nah they're only half metricated. They use metric kilometers, but imperial hours, this creates the uniquely Canadian variant of kph

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[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

The Illuminati rock band?

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 74 points 2 days ago

I don't care which way they go. Hell, split the difference and move us to a 30 minute offset if you can't make up your minds. Just stop changing the bloody clocks twice a year. Please!

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Split the time zones in half and offset them by 45-60 minutes.

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[-] webkitten@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

We should just turn back the clocks twice a year so we never have to lose an hour of sleep.

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[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Daylight Saving Time just needs to be completely eradicated, it makes no sense in the modern day. The problem is that you have this disagreement over "which" time should be the default, either standard time or daylight time (which Canada/the US spend more of the year in than not).

IMO it should just be standard time, emphasis on the word "standard". If you want more daylight hours in the evening for events and such, just start things an hour earlier.

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