<story><title>Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>Yes!  Bravo to Florida.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care what timezone California wants to be in—PST or MST—as long as we stop the nonsense of changing between two timezones every year.  This coming Sunday is another DST change, and with it will come countless small nuisances, immeasurable drowsiness and lost productivity, and a non-trivial number of injuries or worse.&lt;p&gt;Just pick a timezone and stick with it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>I agree we should just pick one and move on. The one thing that gets forgotten is that noon was picked based on highest sun point (for some latitude) which is fine until we start to have a generally accepted day as 8-5. Noon is no longer in the &lt;i&gt;middle&lt;/i&gt; of that day. It probably makes the most sense to just split the difference between EST and EDT and call it ENT (normalized) and never change again. This doesn&amp;#x27;t swing winter or summer days anymore than needs be but still gets rid of having to ever change again. The retailers get the biggest benefit of all the time DXT.</text></comment>
<story><title>Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>Yes!  Bravo to Florida.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care what timezone California wants to be in—PST or MST—as long as we stop the nonsense of changing between two timezones every year.  This coming Sunday is another DST change, and with it will come countless small nuisances, immeasurable drowsiness and lost productivity, and a non-trivial number of injuries or worse.&lt;p&gt;Just pick a timezone and stick with it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreeFull</author><text>DST can make sense if you&amp;#x27;re sufficiently far north&amp;#x2F;south, but definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t if you&amp;#x27;re closer to the equator. And for Florida DST probably never made sense.</text></comment>