[belltaco]

Change school start timings in winter, then?

[D13Fd]

We'd have to change work timing too, then, to facilitate dropoffs and parents who want to watch their kids at the bus stops. And at that point, we are back where we started. Better to just not mess with the time, and stick with standard time.

[rattray]

It's probably easier to change work timings now than it ever would have been before. Which is great.

[Jtype]

If you change what time people go to work from 8 am to 9 am then you will also be changing when they get home from 5pm to 6pm. Then you have lost that extra daylight in the evening, which was the entire point of the time change!

[jalk]

Changing the start time for some activities twice a year seems likely to cause even more confusion that changing the clock

[tshaddox]

> And at that point, we are back where we started.

Except only for people at latitudes where it's worth doing. Those people are precisely where they started, and everyone else has a much simpler year-round standard time.

[stickfigure]

What percentage of the population must start work at exactly 8am?

[s1artibartfast]

A pretty big chunk. I couldn't find the latest Census data, but in 2000 ~20% of people left for work before 630 and 72% left for work before 830 am.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2000/...