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[โ€“] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In a sane world they would just get to school earlier and leave earlier - that's all DST effectively does while adding a heaping helping of absolute insanity.

[โ€“] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It also makes dealing with dates even more complicated in programming, especially when you have to check whether an event/person is in somewhere like Arizona that doesn't do DST (besides the Navajo Nation...)