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- Nov 8, 2011
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Retail businesses are crucially concerned with being open when their customers want their services and not being open when there is little money to be made. Many businesses already have winter hours because people don't like to get out and about until it warms up a little. Additionally they would have to expand hours in the afternoon to serve customers coming in later in the day. In the end it's little different than going back to standard time in the fall.The point I am trying to make is that it's easier to reset the clocks than to move the start of the work/school day for everyone. Every retail business, school, government office, bank etc. would have to adopt winter hours. People are not going to go out and conduct commerce until it's daylight.My work day starts at dawn and lasts 8-9 hours but for people who do not set their own schedule this would cause some pretty significant problems. I hate the fall time change every year but I realize the necessity of it for a world that lives by the time clock.There are only about 9 daylight hours during midwinter. Applying savings time then means school will either have to start later or kids will be going to school well before dawn.
Yeah, I understand that was one of the reasons they started moving around the clocks in the first place. But not many kids walk a mile to school anymore. Parents drive them or the school bus picks them up. Even during this time here, it's still dark in the mornings in November, December and January.
I don't know why it would bother working people. I work outside, I'm a truck driver. But if I worked inside, it wouldn't bother me how light or dark it was outside because I wouldn't be in it.
Maybe I'm not understanding your point here. Why would we have to move anything? You start at the same time and end at the same time work or school. I don't see why that would have to change any. Daylight savings time is what we will be on next month, not now.