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Why daylight saving time could be even more awesome than you think
Making daylight saving time permanent -- by never "falling back" again -- could save the country billions a year in social costs by reducing rapes and robberies that take place in the evening hours, according to a forthcoming paper by researchers at the Brookings Institution and Cornell University. In 2007, Congress increased the period of daylight saving time (DST henceforth) by four weeks, adding three weeks in the spring and one in the fall.
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Why not use solar time and adapt schedules around it instead of the other way around?
That's a good idea as well.
That's pretty much what I do, and I already go to work one hour sooner than most people in the winter. It's the only way I get to see some daylight during the winter in Berlin.