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Many States (or at least some legislators in those states) are pushing for permanent DST because of the perceived benefits.

I live in the north and the concern about DST always makes me laugh - the relationship between the time and diurnal patterns is meaningless up here for at least a third of the year.

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Maybe they should just do everything one hour early instead, like working from 8 to 4 instead of 9 to 5.

What are the perceived benefits?

People usually cite benefits to farmers, energy savings, declining crime/traffic accidents, happiness due to more sunlight etc.

The first Google result for me implies that these are largely myths (https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/03/05/the-...).

The only reason I've heard anyone in reality desire it is for when the sun is present i.e. later in the day. It's why I prefer DST of standard time as a permanent thing. More sunlight in the evening, that's all there is to it for me. But I'd rather standard time with no DST than the switching we do today.

Another data point: Later sunsets lead to lost productivity, more obesity, more diabetes, and more breast cancer. Probably due to fewer hours of sleep.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/19/how-livin...

The benefit is not having the time change twice a year.

I can get more daylight in the winter at a later time in Georgia. There’s no reason I should have extra daylight in the morning. I’d much rather get home from work and have more daylight.

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