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Just about everyone I know despises DST. There is some disagreement about what would become "standard time", but almost everyone wants it to end. The worst part of DST is the assumption that you can just reschedule a kid's body clock. A baby gets really upset with the time change, and older kids aren't that much better.

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> Just about everyone I know despises DST.

You may know them all then.

Over a longish life intersecting about every class there is, I found ~0 people expressing a preference for Standard time. The preference for DST has been fairly universal.

I have not lived at high latitudes however. Some comments here indicate opinions there may reasonably differ.

I would prefer doing away with DST.

Probably the vast majority of people with sleep disorders would do better with it as well.

I'm not convinced that we're universally a sunrise-to-sunset species, just some of us are.

> I would prefer doing away with DST. Probably the vast majority of people with sleep disorders would do better with it as well.

I'm fairly skeptical of that as well. What I've seen among support groups is losing free-time to darkness increases SAD, which leads to sleep issues. I could ask around tho.

Would those people do equally well or better if they didn't have jobs that confined them indoors with little natural light and were able to get out around noon for an hour long walk or run, instead of having to desperately try to catch that hour of sunlight after they get home?

Other than hours, it isn't clear why these workplace conditions can be assumed.

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