Get the latest tech news
Eliminating Daylight Savings Time would make the average American’s life darker
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plan would literally make the average American’s life darker.
True, the twice-annual time changes — you know the drill: spring forward, fall back — are annoying and associated with some tangible consequences, such as an increase in traffic accidents because of sleep deprivation. Year-round DST would at least increase the amount of time that the average American spends in daylight in the winter but at the cost of ignoring some strong revealed preferences for people not wanting to wake up in darkness for required activities like work and school. This map, adapted from a Reddit post, shows the location of 24 of our cities in the continental U.S.; not pictured are Anchorage, Honolulu, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, but I’ll include them in the data tables.
Or read this on Hacker News
