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The issue with this is the late sunrise in the winter. In mid-Jan in LA the sun rises at ~7AM. It would rise at 8AM with daylight savings in winter. This sucks terribly since it moves your whole commute into dark; kids walk to school in the dark, etc.

It's pretty depressing to start the day in the dark, to be honest (with apologies to folks living in very northern or southern latitudes)

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That's called out at the end of the article:

"But before the end of the first month of daylight saving that January, eight children died in traffic accidents in Florida, and a spokesperson for Florida’s education department attributed six of those deaths directly to children going to school in darkness."

I see nothing depressing about starting in the dark.

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