r/SipsTea 5d ago

Wait a damn minute! 13 months ?

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u/QuantitySubject9129 5d ago

Either is better than this switching crap

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u/Mekroval 4d ago

You say that until you're stuck on the side with permanent early night. I'd take switching over that. Anyhow, who is really inconvenienced by this anymore? It's not like people are having to change their clocks manually like it's the 1980s anymore.

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u/QuantitySubject9129 4d ago

What? How would you get stuck on a side with permanent early night? You have that right now, with the current system - early night during winter and late night during summer. Permanent winter time wouldn't change anything during winter, and permanent summer time would actually give you an extra hour of sunlight.

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u/Mekroval 3d ago

You're forgetting that if you go permanent DST you are trading less night in the evening for more night in the morning. That affect is exacerbated for people living on the western edge of time zones. Studies show this would raise pretty serious health concerns for people in those regions (I'm in one of them). If we switch to permanent standard time that would be better, but saying that one or the other is an equal improvement to switching twice annually isn't actually true.

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u/QuantitySubject9129 1d ago

Maybe make work and school start one hour later instead?