[matthewowen]

The majority of the US population lives at latitudes that would be affected by the “sun rises after 8am in winter” problem.

As I said before, changing the clocks is a much more efficient approach than getting every school and workplace (etc) to change their hours.

It’s not true IMO that “plenty” of northern countries do without it. Russia doesn’t (since 2014) but their time zones are a mess anyway. Iceland doesn’t. Otherwise pretty much every European country does.

[christophilus]

Hm. A quick search suggests that 70 countries out of 195 have daylight savings time, with a fair number of those considering abolishing it. Most of those are in Europe. 73 countries have abolished DST, and 106 have never had it in the first place.

Not 100% sure on those stats. They come from AI, and I only spot-checked it. But yeah. Most northern climate countries do currently have DST.