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What if we just stayed on DST year round?

Some people with children don't like that because "[their] children will have to go to school in the dark" during the winter. That's what killed legislation to make DST permanent where I live.

More importantly, they might fail in getting their children awake and out of the house in the first place, it is before sunset :p

I have children, and the time change is far worse than going in the dark. Also, kids in Alaska go in the dark all the time and survive just fine.

And if they have an after school activity, they have to come home in the dark anyway.

It's a red herring.

Sounds like last year, when all of the schools were closed, would've been the optimal time to push through any sort of change.

With kids, I would prefer them having sun when they can actually be outside on that sun.

> "[their] children will have to go to school in the dark" during the winter.

Then we move school start times to what's biologically optimal for kids instead of what optimizes budgets.

It wouldn't change a thing. The deeper cause of the day rythm is the daylight cycle. We adjust all our times, like start of work day or school start relative to that - mostly so that you get up after or not too long before sunrise and have most of the daylight during work time. If you change the time zone setting, day times are going to adjust accordingly.

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