Daylight Saving Time possibly permanent 11/2023

town123 said

The 2 year trial of permanent DST ended in 1974 because the winter morning sunrises were so late. Detroit had a bunch of problems, mostly traffic accidents and kids being in the dark to start school.

I'm thinking this will be another case of 'sounds great' turning into 'nope, go back'.

Might work in fair weather states, but we get more freezing rain here that melts by morning rush, but won't with DST because the sun won't have that extra hour to heat up.

What about just going back to standard time permanently?

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My preference would be to stay on Standard time. The problem with implementing the time change, and then reverting back is all the electronic devices will need their software updated again. One change to remain on Savings/Standard time, then another to revert the change. There's costs involved with doing this. Most devices that get their time from a cell tower, internet gateway(wifi or wired), network router, etc, acquire their time via an NTP server. Basically anything connected to the internet gets it's time from an NTP server. Unfortunately, NTP is based on UTC and doesn't adjust for artificial time changes, such as time zones and standard/savings time. Software has to make the adjustments, and software changes have a cost.