the bill would finally get rid of Daylight Savings Time. everyone was on board, and then the Democrats just didn't do anything about it.

  • edge [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    DST doesn't control how long the sun is out. Changing it won't give you any extra sunlight.

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Do you not understand people working day shifts at set hours and that those hours don't change with the clocks

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yes but I can’t change when work hours are, businesses are open, or people want to do things. And I’d rather have more sunlight after work.

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      It does mean that, from our perspective, daylight appears to extend later in the day, though? That's the point?

      • ped_xing [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The extra sunlight comes from the time the sun is up but you're sleeping. It's there for the experiencing.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          2 years ago

          Yes, I'm aware. But I'd like to come out of work and not have 15 minutes of sunlight left, and that's not something that comes down to my own choices

          • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah but the clocks control when I do my activities more than the sun does

            :marx-joker: hmm i wonder why that is

            I want that sunlight to be after I get off work

            i sleep through the day and work at night so I forgot this was a problem for people tbh :biblically-accurate-kitty:

      • edge [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Go to sleep earlier, get up earlier. Relative to the sun those would actually be at the same time anyway. Yes capitalism affects when you can do such things based on work schedule, but that's what needs to change, not the clocks.

        • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Go to sleep earlier, get up earlier. Relative to the sun those would actually be at the same time anyway. Yes capitalism affects when you can do such things based on work schedule, but that’s what needs to change, not the clocks.

          Yeah let's just hit the "change capitalism" button, because that's so much easier

          :jesse-wtf: