What’s in the way of making daylight saving time permanent
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In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

  • ExFed@lemm.ee
    7·
    8 months ago

    The daytime is basically our employer’s time anyway, I’d rather not waste any more precious daylight on that part of the day.

    I feel like this strikes at the heart of the whole DST vs. ST argument. As I mentioned in a sibling thread, it boils down to how much control we have over our own schedules. Instead of a mutualistic relationship, we’ve sold our souls to our employers. Shifting to permanent DST may be a temporary solution, but if we can’t figure out a way to form healthy relationships and boundaries with work/school/etc, even those gains will eventually get optimized away from us.

    • nicetriangle@kbin.social
      3·
      8 months ago

      That’s an interesting take. I think with respect to wanting more daylight hours “for myself,” perma DST is definitely a stop gap solution, but it’s also legitimately achievable on the near term and has a decent amount of support.

      I do fully agree that work life balance is the bigger, more significant problem but also a lot harder to tackle. Society seems to be going through a big shift right in terms of how we view our relationship with all of this. I’m glad to see more mainstream discussion about stuff like 4 day work week and UBI. Feels like attitudes are changing.