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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the wrong question. Ask if people support simply moving the clocks forward an hour and leaving it there, and I bet you will get overwhelming support. No more of this back and forth, just give everyone more daylight in the usable hours.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This would be a terrible idea.

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692659/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I think if we made all the teenagers get up an hour earlier the whole year round, they'd revolt.