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Why not just use standard time, and shift schedules so that standard office hours are from 10am-6pm?

Actually if you like daylight "saving" time you need to shift to 8am-4pm.

It is far more difficult to get thousands of businesses to coordinate on a fundamental cultural shift to a 10a-6p working day, than to just not change clocks back after switching to DST one last time.

People say that but I'm not sure it's true. As long as they all agree about what time it is at any given moment (which is something we're not proposing to change) why do their business hours even have to line up perfectly? And to the extend that they do need to, wouldn't they just sort of figure it out over the course of a week or a month and then not have to worry about at again from that point on?

Also, it would be a shift to an 8-4 working day, right, if we were going to keep the clocks on standard time year round?

> wouldn't they just sort of figure it out over the course of a week or a month and then not have to worry about at again from that point on?

You'd have to re-negotiate every time you work with a new client. Are they on 9-5? Or 10-6? When can we schedule that weekly call? Businesses have no incentive to go through this headache, so they won't.

We already shift our working hours twice a year with practically no issues. Let's just not switch back once.

> You'd have to re-negotiate every time you work with a new client. Are they on 9-5? Or 10-6? When can we schedule that weekly call? Businesses have no incentive to go through this headache, so they won't.

My experience is that these meeting coordinations still have to happen. Even within your own company, in the same office building.

Seems a lot harder to make 2 changes instead of 1. Especially when the second change would have to be individually apply by every workplace.

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