He'll probably fuck it up by pushing for year-round DST (where the sun wouldn't rise until after 8 AM in the winter).
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Dude, are you being paid off by big twilight or something?
I have to wake up at 5:30 every morning
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Some people want DST all year and others want Standard, because depending on where in the country you live--the latitude you are at, and whether you live at the east or west edge of your time zone makes a big difference in your experience of them.
One solution is to adjust the time zone boundaries to make the timing work out better for different locations: making the lines a bit more diagonal will help, and/or add another zone so each zone is narrower and there's not as much difference in sunrise/sunset times from one edge to the other.
Another idea is, don't choose between DST and Standard, choose halfway between them: at the next time change, change it by only 1/2 hour instead of a full hour, and leave it there. This may sound strange but there are other countries whose times are offset by 1/2 hour from the others, so it's not that unusual. So you're halfway between DST and Standard all year round, so it's not a big difference and is a good compromise.
Of course it's always too dark in winter, but combine both of the above mitigations and you minimize any problems from leaving clocks the same all year, no matter what part of the country you live in.
Settling at half increments isn't a bad idea in theory but it will be hell for international business because the average person is a moron.
If you're going to go this radical just abolish time zones and use UTC. Then locally decide what time is the start of standard business and what is not.
A few states can move a time zone, but northern states really benefit from the change. Daylight varies a ton seasonally in the north compared to south, Panama City has about 10-14 hours, but Seattle has about 8.5-16 hours
I'd rather be on savings time year round but yeah, the switch is the worst.
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trump finds loophole that by turning back the clock one hour, every hour, he can legally freeze the time and bypass term limits.
I mean, if the time never legally reaches Jan 20, 2029, then he is still legally president
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