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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!

School Bans 'Tag' 1000

GillBates0 writes "CNN is carrying a story about a school in Boston which has have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable. According to the article, some elementary schools in other states have similarly banned "unsupervised contact sports". A parent was quoted as saying that her son feels safer now and that she'd witnessed enough 'near collisions.'" See, it's not just dangerous virtual games that are harmful to children!

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