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Kids all across the US are waiting at the bus in the dark anyway.

Not everyone gets to get on a bus after sunrise.

The better answer is to just quit switching altogether, and socially adjust everything to x hours pre mid-day sun.

With everything being connected these days it's trivial (hell, industrial clocks have been tied to electrical frequency since 1900, so it's always been trivial to compensate them).

If "6am" slowly moved every day due to when mid-day sun/sunrise occurs, no one would even notice.

With permanent DST the latest sunrise in Detroit would be 0900.

The entire nation doesn't need to be following year round the schedule that Detroit school kids need from November to January.

The better solution for this little problem is to go ahead and shift the entire country to permanent DST, and move Detroit from the Eastern time zone to the Central time zone. Latest sunrise in Detroit is now 8AM. Your complaint is resolved, without either of us being forced to switch our clocks twice a year.

Eh......I think we need to do away with the concept of money, and work, and managers owning the majority of our time.

You think a cat gives a fuck what time Starbucks closes??? Hell no! They just sleep on your bed, or on the floor, or on a table, or on the stairs, or anywhere they want, anytime they want. And they make SURE you are always looking at their butthole.

You think you can just go into starbucks, and present your butthole, to all who look at you, while also sleeping on their counter? I mean, you're TOTALLY in the way, and making everyones lives more inconvienent......but fuck 'em, ya know?

You can't do ANY of that! Because for some reason, we've all decided that little green paper controls our lives.

Or in the case of Canada, multicolored monopoly money.

Drop "daylight savings time" and "standard time" monikers. Use UTC offsets, and tell us what state you are in.

New York and Michigan are currently in the same time zone. When we go to permanent time, they should not be.

Michigan in UTC-4 (EDT) winter would have a sunrise after 9AM. That's fucking absurd; they should not be on UTC-4 during winter. They should be permanently on UTC-5.

New York in UTC-5 (EST) would have a summer sunrise before 4AM. That's fucking absurd. They should not be on UTC-5 in the summer. They should be permanently on UTC-4.

Maine's earliest sunset on UTC-5 will be at 3:45PM. That is criminally insane. They should permanently be on UTC-4, or maybe even UTC-3.

Or we'll realize that the specific numbers are arbitrary and use UTC everywhere.

So many people don't understand that the same outcome of an 'extra hour' after work could be had by shorter work hours or not having the majority of the typical office workday after noon.

9-5 was a 3|5 split. 8-5 is a 4|5 split. Treating 5 pm as the only rime to end the office workday is the fucking problem, not the sun. Changing clocks twice a year is a problem.

There is no formal requirement for your state to stay within its current timezone.

If we go to permanent DST, you can petition for your state to switch to the next timezone to the west, which would give you the same time as permanent standard time in your current timezone. Detroit, for example, is on the western edge of ET. Sunrise in winter for them would be as late as 9AM, which is ridiculous. But, if Michigan shifts to CT instead of ET, sunrise goes to 8AM, and everyone is happy.

Move yourself from EDT to CDT, which is the same as EST. Or move from CDT to MDT/CST. Or MDT to PDT/MST. Or PDT to AKDT/PST.

If you don't want to drive home with your the sun in your eyes, take a job to the east of your home.

Fuck that, use coffee like everyone else.

Fuck that, y'all are addicted to caffeine and normalising it to the point where not being a coffee craving zombie in the morning is apparently a weird thing.

Sun after work is literally the only time I see sun in the winter.

Idk what your job is but do you not have any windows anywhere? Because that's how you get burnout along with coffee addiction.

sounds like you need more mcburgers to fix that problem

Blame congress too, since they passed the bill.