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It was tried 52 years ago, and no one actually liked it, so we went back to DST again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...

Possibly another example of the old Chesterton's Fence.

No, that’s describing permanent DST, which was tried and failed, not lack of DST. Most people in the world live without DST and it’s fine. (The article also mentions this.)

The majority of the planet do not live at higher latitudes, where implementing adjusted summer/winter hours actually makes sense.

Except it's not like Chesterton's fence, it was created at the edge of living memory for known reasons. If anything it's an example of the opposite effect, something like Chesterton's field, do we really need to build a wall here, it's been a field for a damn long time...

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