What happens when the time changes?

[wadio]

There are people who have flexible work schedules but most don't. We are still largely tied to 8 to 5 (which becomes 6 most days). Yes, we can leave the clocks alone and change the start of school for the 9am sunrise months (if year round DST) but that disrupts daycares, high schoolers with after school jobs, and the businesses that employ them. Doing the time shift twice a year keeps schedules the same. No one is going to playh mini-golf at 5am, so . eliminating DST takes money away from outdoor attractions.

So how about businesses, schools, etc. moving their start times by 1/2-hour ... right in between ST & DST? When it comes to time zones we're pretty much stuck with 1-hour increments but not so with other schedules.

 

[firepoint525]

early sunrises

It depends where you are. Where I live, December sunrise is about 7:45am with sunset around 5:30pm EST. June is sunrise around 6:25am and sunset just before 9pm EDT. I could probably live with year-round standard time, summer days would last 5:25am to 8pm. Year-round daylight would have sunrise around 8:45am. There's not enough coffee in the world for still midnight dark at 8am. I remember this experiment in 1974. Some other places would have VERY early sunrises...as early as 4:15am with sunset around 7pm in the summer. Forget grilling, yard work or any outdoor activity after work. You'd have to squeeze that all in on the weekend. A sunrise in the 4am or 5am hour would be totally lost on me in the summer.

In June, we have sunrise at 4:45 a.m. CDT. On standard time, that would be 3:45 a.m.! I don't even think that farmers would want sunrise THAT early! I live at the eastern edge of central time, so it is not surprising that I would want to be on daylight time all year, but I would NOT want to be on eastern time.