**** daylight savings
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The bus roles through my neighborhood a little before 7. The kids are already waiting for the bus in darkness in the middle of winter even on standard time. And everyone seems to manage just fine.
There is no getting around some of that. But trying to limit the number of days that that happens is the point. I like that there is a last gasp of daylight saving time now for Halloween so the really little kids aren't doing all of their trick or treating in total darkness, then we immediately try to minimize the morning darkness. I don't think anyone is truly a fan of 9 am or later sunrises.
I would happily trade 9 a.m. sunrises for some sun in the early evening
Another thing to keep in mind is that sunrise time is not the same as first daylight/dawn, which is the point you can see clearly and drive around safely without headlights. Under standard time on the shortest day of the year dawn in central Iowa is around 7:08am with a sunrise of 7:40am.
The question is whether you would rather have a 8:08am dawn in December under DST with more evening sunlight or under permanent standard time having dawn around 4:00am in June but have dawn around 7 in winter instead of 8. Or if you would rather switch your clocks twice a year.
The question is whether you would rather have a 8:08am dawn in December under DST with more evening sunlight or under permanent standard time having dawn around 4:00am in June but have dawn around 7 in winter instead of 8. Or if you would rather switch your clocks twice a year.
Gimme sun later in the day instead of earlier.
And realistically, society should also shift to just generally doing things later on. Such as starting school, where places that start school later in the day tend to have better educational outcomes.
Sun earlier is the only way unless you are a loser
Switch clocks, easily. And I live in the NW Twin Cities so the winter dawn and first daylight times are even later.
Or if you, like, have a job and want sunlight after your workday is over. That'd be nice. Early morning sun does nothing useful for average people, it's wasted sunlight. Suppose it's great for pensioners, though.
