• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    The rationale I heard in the northern U.S. was that kids would have to wait for or walk home from the school bus in the dark. It doesn’t really make sense, but that’s not an issue apparently.

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        24 days ago

        It seems to me like the sun going down an hour earlier is the last thing we need when winter comes.

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      23 days ago

      In a sane world they would just get to school earlier and leave earlier - that’s all DST effectively does while adding a heaping helping of absolute insanity.

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        24 days ago

        It also makes dealing with dates even more complicated in programming, especially when you have to check whether an event/person is in somewhere like Arizona that doesn’t do DST (besides the Navajo Nation…)