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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

Personally I take this study's view. The one hour (not "hours"—the difference introduced by DST pales in comparison to the difference introduced by the fact that it's already fucking summer) in the afternoon that it opens up is better reached by individuals having the option to shift their working hours, if that's what they want.

If DST should be abandoned, as we suggest as scientists, there are still many people who “like their long evenings.” But there is a solution to this problem: DST is simply a work-time arrangement, nothing more than a decision to go to school/work an hour earlier. As such, it is not a decision that should be made by the world, by unions of countries (e.g., the EU), or by individual countries, neither at the federal nor the state level. Work-time arrangements are decisions that a workforce could decide at the company level. Therefore, anyone who wants to spend more time at home in daylight after work should convince his/her company and co-workers to advance their start time during certain months of the year or even better: introduce flexibility for individual workers where possible to accommodate differences in personal biological and social requirements.