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I know this is hardly a radical take, but I don't care what time it is. I can adjust my schedule appropriately. What I hate is changing the time. It makes us all sicker, causes accidents, and workers in certain professions have to work weird hours to keep up with the changes. It's such a drag on the economy and only seems to serve a small fragment of society.

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Which fragment of society are you thinking time changing benefits? The common one I hear is farmers. Which is complete BS. Farmers work by the sun because the plants and animals they care for don't use clocks.

https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time...

Farmers used to care, when they made broad use of their spawn to assist with harvests and chores. If the spawn gets out of school an hour earlier, that's an hour more labor they can do before the sun sets.

Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.

It's also kind of bullshit. Children can do some farm work, but the majority of farm work is going to be done by adults and teenagers.

Farmers have been mostly against DST since the beginning. It was golfers, bug catchers, and 7-11 that wanted it.

And permanent DST has failed when it was tried here in the 70s, in the UK a few years before that, and in Russia as recent as the 2010s. Why do we want to do it again?

the idea that DST happens for the farmers has always been pretty funny to me, because the one province in canada that doesn't observe DST is the province that has nothing but farmland.

> drag on the economy

Do we know if this is true?

Does the proposal have an estimate of the financial impact?

What are we talking about here, $10M? $100B? I have no sense for it.

Absolutely. Tons of labor goes into patching systems for DST and supporting and testing switchover. My experience is in the healthcare sector.

It also makes the timezone differences vary as different zones switch on different dates. Hopefully the whole world will come to their senses and we get rid of the changes globally so that timezone differences will be fixed.

It's my damn oven's time that I neglect to correct for about 3 months every single time.

Not radical at all, I'll happily take either too.

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