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Comment by MrZongle2 | Hacker News Reader

I can understand the concern of other posters about going to DST as opposed to standard time... but at this point, I just want the switching to end. It is such an unnecessary disruption and fixing it seems so trivial.

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It's total necessary and a great design. Without this then it would be dark until 8:30 in the morning during winter and the other way the Sun would rise at 4:30AM. These are both bad outcomes so we adjust the clocks so optimize these.

> These are both bad outcomes

Why?

Because having the Sun rise at 8:30 is really late. We waste energy and secondly people are spending 2 hours of their morning in the dark.

Having the Sun rise at 4:30 is bad because it's just too early to get up and makes for poor sleep. Having the Sun set later in the day is better in this case.

whats 9:30 vs 8:30? Just a label.

Work when the sun is up, call that 9AM. Wake up at X AM so you can get to work on time. It's all just a label, so long as humans can agree.

For a lot of people it's the difference between having a job and being fired. Try telling your boss that you're coming in at 9:30 because it's just a number.

i guess this is where we post /r/antiwork or other great resignation or something.

But yeah I hear you, some people can be so unreasonable. Nonetheless we should refuse to design our society around unreasonable people.

Make chronotypes into a protected class and institute national flex-time.

The Sun isn't rising any earlier since DST is being changed for the summer

Is it really such a disruption? People fly across timezones all the time. Daylight savings and return to normal happen twice per year at entirely predictable times, and are modest changes – is it really so hard?

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