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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC, that was only an issue in 1973-1974 when the US government tried year-round DST (permanently setting the clocks forward one hour). The consequence of this was that the roads in the morning were still dark due to the sun not rising until ~9am during winter, which compromised safety for schoolkids.

If DST was abolished, school safety wouldn't be affected much because the sun would be rising even earlier from spring to fall, and sunrise time would be unchanged in the winter months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I may have gotten mixed up as to what half of the year is dst. I guess it makes sense that it's the one that gets you more evening sunshine.

So yeah, just abolish it and have the "sun comes up earlier" version in place all year, we don't need the sun to be up at 9:30pm in the summer.