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Comment If we did this in the US (Score 1) 211

As someone who lives in the Northern US, I would prefer that we stay on DST all the time. I don't mind driving to work in the dark in the winter months, but it's a bummer to drive home, again, in the dark. Staying on DST in the winter would alleviate that to some degree.

For example daylight on January 1st will be from 08:51 to 17:42. Getting home before dark just doesn't happen for me as I work ~08:30 to ~17:30 but on DST those daylight hours would be from 09:51 to 18:42! That means I can actually use a small amount of daylight after work. Now, compare that to abandoning DST and how it impacts the summer months.

July 1st this year under DST daylight was from 05:30 to 21:03. That's a long day, but 5:30 AM is also a somewhat reasonable time to be awake in my opinion. Without DST July 1st daylight would have been 04:30 to 20:03. I don't know anyone who would make use of the extra hour in the morning while everyone I know still enjoys that extra hour in the evening.

Let's keep DST and just never switch back!

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