How the sunrise and sunset times would be affected by abolishing daylight saving time in the USA. Would you prefer to keep it or drop it?

Getting rid of daylight savings and staying on permanent standard would be great. When it becomes daylight savings time during the colder months it really does suck ad it gets darker earlier. Thus, I feel there is a lot less I want to do in the evenings. I like the slightly darker mornings and brighter evenings of standard.

Choosing one or the other would be good, though I feel like permanent standard over permanent savings still is a bit better.

Regardless, time change is annoying.

I really don't care what time the sun sets or rises. Just stop messing with my body's internal clock.

Maybe it's my ADHD, but I simply can not understand how to read this map.

I don't care what timezone we end up in, just stop the twice a year shifts.

Drop DST. We tried permanent DST in the '70s and everyone hated it so much we went back to switching the clocks rather than just dropping the whole mess.

I've lived in states that don't/ didn't have DST. It's much better for your sleep cycle.

Pick one or the other. Or use UTC globally for all I care. Just stop changing the damn time!

I read a study once but cannot remember it.

It posited that lunch time should be half way through the daylight hours and the further away it was from this then the more effect it had on either mental or physical health (I don't remember in it's entirety.)

I'm in the minority I guess, but I like daylight savings time. I like my waking hours to be in daylight. I typically wake up with the sun and I do stuff outside.

I have kind of moved on from this and I just want everything UTC.

Don't care, just pick one and don't change it every six months.

Measurable health effects associated with the daylight saving time shift

Adverse Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Adolescents' Sleep and Vigilance

Daylight Saving Time Transitions: Impact on Total Mortality

The impact of daylight saving time on sleep and related behaviours

Spring forward and leave it there. In the fall it currently gets dark at 5 pm. It’s depressing to get off work and not have any daylight to enjoy and run errands. It’s also dangerous because tired drivers are coming home in a dark rush hour.

Split the difference by adding 30 minutes in the spring and then leave it there permanently.

I love that we don't change here in Japan (I grew up in the US), but I do wish our time zone had sunrise a bit later (it rises at like 4am in eastern Japan in summer). Splitting Japan into two timezones would also probably be necessary (maybe even more for the minor islands. Yonaguni is almost Taiwan)

So this chart doesn't measure sunlight levels through the day, but whatever the maker has decided which color corresponds to "reasonable" based on arbitrary numbers... Who the fuck cares about which numbers are assigned to which parts of the day?!?!

A bill has passed both the US House of Representatives AND the US Senate to end the clock-changing, with overwhelming bipartisan support (I don't believe either one of them even held a vote) and zero pork or poison pills...

...but the two of them passed different bills that directly contradict one another. One formally ends DST and the other permanently adopts DST as the new standard time. Fucking incredible.

I'm very much of the "IDGAF please just pick one and we will all cope" persuasion. So I'm unbothered which one passes. But it's comical how, for once in a goddamn generation, we have something completely uncomplicated by party line politics, only to have it completely bungle up in congressional body power struggle politics instead.

We just can't have shit, can we?

reasonable sunrise time

7:00AM or earlier

Earlier than 7AM seems unreasonable

Forced year-round pretending we're an hour ahead means more kids will have to walk to school in the dark, sharing streets with sleep-deprived drivers who are also up before their bodies say they should be. That's gonna kill people.

I like it when noon is at 12:00.

I prefer daylight savings all the time but actually I would go for utc and regions just get used to times being when they are and schedule around daylight.

Set all clocks to UTC military time and calendars to YYYY.MM.DD. Date change happens on UTC.

"My work hours are from 1400 to 2200 until 2024.12.21 at which time I will be available from 1200 until 2000. I will be on vacation from 2024.12.24 until 2025.01.07".

EDIT: I do think that the colon helps readability, so 24hr might be a better choice than military (14:00 to 22:00).

I really want them to just pick one and stop changing the clocks twice a year. it's a huge headache and bad for people's health.

Also as someone else said, just using UTC and knowing that "here in NY, we typically work from 14:00 to 22:00" would also be fine with me.

I'm in favor of abolishing it. This graphic doesn't make it super clear but Daylight Saving Time gives millions of people more commutes in the dark per year than if we always used Standard Time. It's a pretty significant difference.

As long as it stays the same as year, I literally do not give a damn.

I'd rather have it all the time tbh.

It works better overall.

How about we remove it and also set the time to go home to be 2hrs before sun down? Yey! Because that's bullshit. The sun always comes up and down. Its the stupid scheduled that keeps us out of it.

Split the difference, then do the maps again.

I dont understand why people want the sun to come up later so they can "save daylight". Bro i hate getting up in the dark, i think your timezone should also consider when you wake up you want sunshine. This of course also depends on when the average person starts working and goes to school.

We have the technology available to completely localize time. Solar noon could always be noon for everybody. If you want to schedule a meeting with somebody on the same system, only the longitude of the time is needed to convert.