This happens after flying cars powered by cold fusion.
This same story has been run annualy since 1955.
Just let each individual make their own decision whether to be on DST or not...easy peasy. Why does the government get to tell me what time it is?
They should do a little research on the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973, a year-round DST plan signed by President Nixon to ease the energy crisis. I like DST during the summer because I would rather have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening when I am awake to use it rather than in the morning when I am still asleep. The problem with DST all year is that, at least in areas farther north, the sun rises very late during the days of the year with the shortest hours of sunlight. In high school in 1974-75, I had to catch the bus around 7:10 and I walked to the bus stop by starlight. That was in St. Louis. As I recall, sunrise could occur as late as 8:00, maybe later. That wasn’t a problem for me, but I wouldn’t want to send smaller children out in the dark like that, especially these days. Anyway, I believe that concern is why this experiment was ended.
I know that it’s probably never going to happen, but why not just put the whole damned world on GMT with a 24 hour clock with people in each area figuring out for themselves the optimal schedules based on the amount of daylight they have? Why is everyone so attached to the work day being “9 to 5” and school being “8 to 3” everywhere? Why can’t school in L.A. start at a 15:00 GMT and end at 22:00? Why can’t the work day in Tokyo start at 00:00 GMT while it starts at 12:00 GMT in Istanbul?
So essentially they’re switching to Phoenix Time.