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Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
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- Title
- Greenland to stay in daylight saving time forever
- Published
- Mar 27 2023
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- 230 words
Congrats! I hope the USA retains its sanity and gets it passed as well.
It doesn't matter if we land on DST or standard time. So long as the madness ends, we can adjust our schedules accordingly.
I feel oddly detached from the recent debate about daylight savings. The switch has literally never affected me in any way. I truly cannot understand why people feel strongly about it.
I feel the same way. Maybe as others say it's about where you live. I mean yeah sometimes I might forget to set the clock or feel a bit off time but we're so used to it and it does a lot for well daylight.
Am I the only who enjoys the switch?
No, but you're definitely in the minority according to most surveys that I've seen. E.g.
Only 21% prefer the switching back and forth in the USA, <15% in Canada
I'll bet its relative to where you live.
IIRC there's small bands near roughly the center of the timezones where the switch is a net win, and a few others were it makes a difference permanent standard or DST. There was a good writeup or video on it, but I can't recall which atm.
But the population density differences still warrant permanent DST, in terms of population benefitting.
This is exactly what I was trying to remember, thanks!
Not sure what you mean by losing daylight time. You're just shifting it around. It depends on when you want that daylight. Personally I'm not a morning person, and anyway, most people I know work indoors in the mornings anyway. So it's more valuable to get some daylight in the evening, when you're free to enjoy it, which is why I'd prefer permanent DST.
For the record, I live at 66 degrees north, one degree south of the Arctic circle. In the winter, there's very little daylight no matter which way you slice it. In the summer, it's basically permanent daylight (technically the Sun dips below the horizon even at the height of summer, but not enough for it to get truly dark).