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This is why the suicide rates will continue to climb.

They voted to keep the clock still, but used the wrong time.

I just wish the movie Idiocracy would stop turning into a f*&cking documentary. Is that so much to ask?!?!?!

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I don’t agree at all, and I think many people don’t agree. What has always depressed me the most in the winter is the lack of sunlight in the evening, after work/school. In the morning I don’t really get to enjoy the sunlight anyway. What I really hate is getting off work and finding it already dark.

There is no “right” time, and this fight for pedantic correctness is already lost. That ship sailed when we started using time zones instead of true local time. Many localities are far from their true noon already. We should make policy on the basis of what is actually good for people.

The other thing is, since there is no right time we should fight for

1. Shorter working hours.

2. More flexible working hours.

This is exactly right for me too (American here). I much prefer having daylight after work instead when I wake up. I don't care how outside looks like when I'm taking a shower and waking up. I really like this change.

I do wonder if some communities on the border of a time zone will end up shifting from one side or the other due to this, especially if they're in an area where it makes more of a difference in the winter than the summer.

You do realize that Detroit and Boston are already effectively in different timezones as far as the sun is concerned?

Detroit should be -6UTC. Most of Texas should be -7. Fix these issues and you'd have less contention.

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