AMA calls for permanent standard time
www.ama-assn.org
At its interim meeting on Monday, the AMA House of Delegates supported ending daylight saving time and moving permanently to standard time.

I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

  • NOT_RICKEnglish
    441·
    3 days ago

    It’s also dependent on where you live. Someone living on the easternmost part of a time zone is going to tend to want DST over standard as compared to someone living on the westernmost part. I live in the easternmost part of the Eastern US time zone and I’d pick DST if I had the choice.

      • joeEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        “East Coast” doesn’t provide enough information. If you look at a map of America and draw a straight line south from the western end of Massachusetts, it doesn’t really touch another state at all, just the ocean. What really needs to happen is that the Northeast needs to be in a different time zone, and then we stick to standard time. But as it is now, it really sucks being in EST in the winter in the northeast, which is why so many of us prefer permanent DST, when given the choice without the option of being in a different time zone.

      • NOT_RICKEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        4:30 sunrise in June just feels wrong to me.

        • MinnesotaGoddam
          5·
          2 days ago

          Arizona is used to it. When I drove through in July I swear the sun es already high at 4

        • zikzak025
          52·
          2 days ago

          You get used it it. Somehow the majority of the world where DST isn’t observed has no problem with an earlier sunrise. Makes it easier to be a “morning” person, if anything.

          • Rooster326@programming.dev
            92·
            2 days ago

            Makes it easier to be a “morning” person, if anything.

            Morning people already get enough perks. Why do I want to help those judgemental pricks?

            • pimento64@sopuli.xyzOP
              31·
              2 days ago

              Because if you want to help them, you give them DST, so the sun can rise an hour into their day. DST literally delays the progress of morning and makes more of it, it makes you get up an hour earlier in the morning.

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          192·
          3 days ago

          Tbf, 5:00 sunset on standard time is not ideal for me either. But a lot more acceptable than having to suddenly adjust sleep because capitalists want to make more money.

          • NOT_RICKEnglish
            83·
            3 days ago

            The more I think about it, 8 am sunrise if we did permanent DST in late Dec/early January would be shit too. We should just split the difference, lol