In January we are off DST, so do you want the U.S. to stay on permanent DST year-round??
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That’s a fun question too. DST has been a periodic discussion among politicians worldwide for decades now, and there have been countless lively debates using pedestrian and vehicle safety statistics, as well as crime statistics. Should governments decide to stop the biannual clock play, there’s a lot of support for making DST permanent for those reasons, rather than standard time. The Amish might then become forever out of step with the rest of the world (they mostly don’t observe DST).
Re: DST.
DST pisses me off because, at our latitude in Calgary, it doesn’t get dark till 10 pm and that screws up the lighting in my home theatre.
Just no pleasing some people!
Its DST in the winter is what puts the kiddos in the dark early in the morning.
It was tried once in the USA and people complained about the school kids waiting for the bus in the dark. Standard time, all the time is really the best plus the bi-yearly swapping forward and behind like LJ posted messes with our circadian rhythms and stuff.