Most of my life does not involve coordinating across timezones.
You're suggesting that twice every year, we change the times that retailers, offices, government agencies, broadway theaters, restaurants, roads, schools, and so on open and close. Schools alter class schedules and trains modify departure times. Also, we all reset our alarms, because we'll need to wake up at different times anyway.
It makes so much more sense to just change the clocks!
And yes, all of these things would need to change, because they all revolve around the typical work schedule! Parents bring children to school before heading to work. Public transit runs more frequently during rush hour.
There is a discussion to be had about whether we should be shifting our schedules in the first place. But as long as we're shifting schedules, it makes so much more sense to just change the damn clocks!
P.S. Most people don't have white collar jobs! Construction workers, janitors, mechanics and so on don't ever work across timezones.
P.P.S. I'm okay with nixing the time change as long as we don't end up on permanent daylights savings! However, permanent daylights savings is my nightmare.
Or only the people who it actually affects make any such adjustment?
Currently the shop closes at 8pm and it's dark by 4pm; in Summer it closes at 8pm still (on +1 time) and it's dark at what 11pm or later? Explain your point again?
You're suggesting that twice every year, we change the times that retailers, offices, government agencies, broadway theaters, restaurants, roads, schools, and so on open and close. Schools alter class schedules and trains modify departure times. Also, we all reset our alarms, because we'll need to wake up at different times anyway.
It makes so much more sense to just change the clocks!
And yes, all of these things would need to change, because they all revolve around the typical work schedule! Parents bring children to school before heading to work. Public transit runs more frequently during rush hour.
There is a discussion to be had about whether we should be shifting our schedules in the first place. But as long as we're shifting schedules, it makes so much more sense to just change the damn clocks!
P.S. Most people don't have white collar jobs! Construction workers, janitors, mechanics and so on don't ever work across timezones.
P.P.S. I'm okay with nixing the time change as long as we don't end up on permanent daylights savings! However, permanent daylights savings is my nightmare.