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It's not like we have a national school schedule. There are already 1-2 hour differences in school start times, sometimes just a few miles away.

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The issue isn't universality but consistency. It doesn't matter to person A how person B gets their kids to school, what matters is that person A doesn't need a different system for half the year.

So everyone in the world changing their clocks is easier than having a summer schedule at a business where they open one hour earlier?

Many businesses have different schedules on the weekend, I think people could cope with summer hours. Especially since they already do - even with the time change many businesses are open longer.

For something so unpopular, how do places that don't do the time change get by? Why isn't Saskatchewan in a permanent rage-fueled civil war?

So everyone in the world changing their clocks is easier than having a summer schedule at a business where they open one hour earlier?

Yes.

No. My local swimming pool disagrees. Saskatchewan disagrees.

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