"East Coast" doesn't provide enough information. If you look at a map of America and draw a straight line south from the western end of Massachusetts, it doesn't really touch another state at all, just the ocean. What really needs to happen is that the Northeast needs to be in a different time zone, and then we stick to standard time. But as it is now, it really sucks being in EST in the winter in the northeast, which is why so many of us prefer permanent DST, when given the choice without the option of being in a different time zone.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

4:30 sunrise in June just feels wrong to me.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You get used it it. Somehow the majority of the world where DST isn't observed has no problem with an earlier sunrise. Makes it easier to be a "morning" person, if anything.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Makes it easier to be a "morning" person, if anything.

Morning people already get enough perks. Why do I want to help those judgemental pricks?

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

Because if you want to help them, you give them DST, so the sun can rise an hour into their day. DST literally delays the progress of morning and makes more of it, it makes you get up an hour earlier in the morning.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Arizona is used to it. When I drove through in July I swear the sun es already high at 4

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf, 5:00 sunset on standard time is not ideal for me either. But a lot more acceptable than having to suddenly adjust sleep because capitalists want to make more money.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The more I think about it, 8 am sunrise if we did permanent DST in late Dec/early January would be shit too. We should just split the difference, lol

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

I'm okay with that!