Does no one realize that this means that we all have to get up one hour earlier year round?
9 months after the final change, it'll just be regular time and it'll no longer be early.
That kids will have to travel to school in the dark for the majority of the year, including in most cases standing around in the freezing cold at unlit bus stops?
Why are your stops unlit? I mean, that isn't due to the time, but a basic infrastructure failure. In some areas, though, a neighborhood will communally pay for a streetlight - you might be able to get some installed in your neighborhood.
I'll mention that kids here (Norway) walk to school in the dark and freezing weather. They stand at bus stops, too. Not a big deal.
It affects folks up north more where we leave in the dark and come home in by the dark and it totally sucks. This way us north folks will see an extra hour of light in the winter maybe do more outside stuff after work.
I'm the person you replied to - and I'm in Norway. I'm north. In July, the sun technically goes down but I can read outside at night. In December, there is only about 4.5 hours of sunlight - 10:00 to 14:30. Folks here are not doing anything outside after work because of daylight because most folks work during the daylight hours.
It isn't so bad and you get used to it.
If I go much further north, I'm above the arctic circle and it gets even more extreme.
Daylight savings time, up here, doesn't help with light at all. It merely makes it easier to coordinate time with other European countries.
The northern most parts of the USA are much lower (except Alaska) for folks in Washington or Maine sundown is right around 5 in the winter dark at 530. The extra hour is a big bonus of usable time. Every time we switch i no longer can take my kids to the playground in the daylight after work and it sucks
I'm from the US - the midwest, actually. I'm telling you, you just get used to it and it isn't a big deal any more. People say it is a big deal and it just isn't after a while.
9 months after the final change, it'll just be regular time and it'll no longer be early.
That kids will have to travel to school in the dark for the majority of the year, including in most cases standing around in the freezing cold at unlit bus stops?
Why are your stops unlit? I mean, that isn't due to the time, but a basic infrastructure failure. In some areas, though, a neighborhood will communally pay for a streetlight - you might be able to get some installed in your neighborhood.
I'll mention that kids here (Norway) walk to school in the dark and freezing weather. They stand at bus stops, too. Not a big deal.