politics

People generally sleep to around the schedule of work and school. If you change the clocks these change. Most people don't really have control.of when they wake up.

The complaint was about the body of the post not the title. The last sentence in the body says that the medical community has a problem with the legislation but doesn't summarize what the problem is.

I mean you're not wrong, but its also a larger societal thing which ends up meaning government who negotiates such things. Its not just work, but school start times and bus schedules, public transport times, parking fees/times. It balloons out a bit, so its easier to have some official stance. However, it doesn't have to be federal, and could just be local municipal governments.

In general, though. Yes, individuals could just shift what they do, and this is exactly what humans did for a long time. The industrial revolution changed us so that we needed to coordinate and regiment societal schedules, and here we are now.

So much simpler before rigid timekeeping was a thing. Get up when a bird tells you to and when the shadows get long go back inside.

Unfortunately people tend to expect businesses to have consistent hours for the most part. I see in a lot of small town businesses where they have winter hours vs summer hours but those tend to be shops that only cater to the local population. Having some consistency across the board is a net good thing and I'd be great with just picking one and sticking to it though. It's not as though it actually changes the hours of daylight, just our perception of when they are anyhow.

Changing routines like that would be a major pain in the ass.

I’d much rather change the clocks than try to retrain my entire routine twice a year.

I've lived in a country that does not change for almost a decade now. It feels great to not have to deal with it (well, mostly; it affects scheduling calls with family in the US)

Every work an overnight shift? Everyone I know who does it ends up switching to "normal" hours on weekend just because all their friends and family live normal hours. Normally you sleep when everyone else is eating lunch, so every holiday you are switching to a normal schedule. Even if you try to keep the same schedule, almost nothing is open at 2am so you can't do any shopping on your weekend if you don't switch to follow the local world.

Once we all get used to the time shift any benefits will be lost. And people will be bitching about how dark it is in the winter in the morning.

Yup. You know how we know that? Because they did this in 1973, and it lasted 10 months before people realized it was stupid idea and repealed the law.

Despite living in a time where all human knowledge is available in everybody’s palm, people demand action because they are inconvenienced rather than taking 5 minutes to understand why things are as they are.

The earth is tipped on its axis, and as a result, the days getter shorter and longer throughout the year. We change the clocks as a way of dealing with this, not because the government is stupid and wants to make everybody's life miserable. The biannual time change is irritating, but it’s better than not doing it. But I guess every 50 years people have to relearn this.

It makes the same problem though. You create some abstraction layer of "at 3 I start work". You then travel somewhere else, and you have to shift your abstraction layer again to "at 8 I start work"

or you ask "but its 3 at office X, why aren't they at work?" and then still need to shift mental times to figure out when local day/night is.

The local noon system works to ease the local abstraction shift, but makes it harder to jump to absolute times.

The only issue I have with that is the date change at a reasonable hour. Especially since in California it would happen during standard business hours

I want to point out that solar noon is the term to describe when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky.

Because that's what noon means. There should at least be a chance.

In the Northern Hemisphere, one can always expect the sun to be somewhat south of overhead at noontime. The close to the equator you live, the more directly overhead it will be.

What is important isn't that the sun is directly overhead, just that it is "close" to overhead. Wherever you live you plan your day around the sun. Sure we have lights, and if you never go outside they are fine - but most people would agree that is a terrible life: once you accept you will go outside once in a while you want the times you go outside to be when the sun is up if possible (except astronomers who what nobody else to have those artificial lights on when it should be dark)

Maybe it wouldn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars and kill people.

I honestly don’t mind that tbh. I like watching the sun rise early in the morning

Indiana has DST now. Mitch Daniels made it part of his campaign platform for some reason.