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Death to daylight savings time (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It gets dark too soon

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

People say it’s for farmers, but obviously that’s nonsense. The intention was to reduce energy use, by shifting things so when people get off work they spend more time outside instead of inside using energy.

Also because the guy who came up with it wanted to spend more time catching bugs iirc.

Also if it has any effect on energy use it’s unclear which direction and it’s less than 1% either way, which is not enough to justify the increased car accidents, heart attacks, etc. that happen every time we shift the clocks.