There are pros and cons to everything though. And there are more pros to keeping DST. Only a few areas had mornings that were that dark until 9am. It’s a minority. And those minority areas can stick to the traditional system if they feel they really benefit more from it. But the whole country shouldn’t have to suffer just because a few areas would get much longer darker mornings. The school start time should be later anyways. During puberty, teenagers experience a biological shift in their sleep cycle that makes early school start times fundamentally misaligned with their natural rhythms. Studies show that a 9 AM start time provides benefits including better grades, improved mental health, reduced car accidents, and more sleep. We start kids way too early in the morning.
The rates for car crashes, heart disease and other conditions go through the roof every spring when we lose an hour of sleep. It’s far better to keep daylight savings to prevent that even if some kids in a few small areas trip and fall with minor injuries in the mornings. They should be using flash lights anyways. How many of these kids were experiencing fatal accidents anyways? Was it in mass? And how many kids are actually taking a long walk to school? Most get driven my parents or by a school bus.
Year round daylight savings time may mean darker mornings, but the system we have now just means darker evenings. With our current system, we have to commute home in the dark, with increased risk for car accidents.
So you would prefer it to get dark at 5pm instead of 6pm? No way! Leave it on the spring schedule. Not everyone is up at 6am but most everyone is awake at 6pm.
I’d support staying on Daylight Savings forever or splitting the difference between Daylight Savings and Standard Time. But, let’s settle on something and stay with it
There’s no reason to keep this, although there’s going to be work to do because the maritime, this is harder on students, it’s harder on people that go to work everyday this is something that is no longer needed.