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bcb1200 t1_jdx2epd wrote

I’m all for stopping the change. But the only option is to stay on Standard (winter) time else the sun won’t come up in Michigan until 10 am in December.

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dog_magnet t1_jdx5hcv wrote

And if we stay on standard time, the sun will rise at 4 AM here in summer. Neither is a great solution if you take the extremes of the time zones.

The other option is recognizing that time zones aren't set in stone, and that maybe what's good for one place isn't good for another and change them accordingly. There's no reason why Michigan and Massachusetts have to be in the same time zone.

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bcb1200 t1_jdx9bor wrote

Right but kids don’t have to walk to school or wait in the bus in the dark in MA in the summer. Whereas they do in MI.

They tried keeping summer hours in the Nixon administration. Lasted one year and then abandoned because it was too dark in the AM in Nov-Jan

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bcb1200 t1_jdxp4f9 wrote

Right and now that sunrise will change to 7:30/8:30 am if you keep it DST year round. After 9 am in Michigan.

Listen, say what you want. It was tried in the early 70s and everyone hated it so much it didn’t even last 1 year. That will happen again

It’s much better to have the sun rise at 4 am and set at 8 pm in summer than to have the sun rise at 8:30 am and set at 5:30 pm in Winter.

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[deleted] t1_jdxpp7w wrote

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bcb1200 t1_jdxqks3 wrote

Violent?

Move south towards the equator and you’ll get 6 am sunrise / 6pm sunset year round. Europe regularly gets 4 am sunrises in summer months in northern regions. Scotland. Scandinavia. Etc.

There are lots of studies and expert opinion that all support stopping the change. But only if it stays in standard time.

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Available-Diet-4886 t1_jdxg432 wrote

MI and MA would have different time zones...

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bcb1200 t1_jdxpybj wrote

Yeah that’s not gonna happen. If this ever changes it’s going to be all or the Eastern time zone. So Michigan is going to hold us hostage.

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ebow77 t1_jdxs02k wrote

Michigan is in the wrong time zone anyway, and I say this as someone who really enjoyed their long summer evenings back in college

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