[littl3chocobo]

i am talking in the contest of the us and, surprisingly(not) the us adopted it explicitly to conserve energy(and does) so it very much is true, not only that but there have been studies showing that daylight savings directly saves around a billion kilowatts of energy which is no small number

dude, you can teach people to do it and there is flexibility. if you can teach people to sit in front of a box for 2-6 hours a day and sit still then you can teach them to be aware of impending time changes and teach them to make elective decisions to help be productive and safe. people can take an hour to watch a tv show every week they can adjust their bedtime and wake-up by 10 minutes a day for a single week. the only exceptions are persons who are not allotted any hours of the day to make living choices and those with very small children. it is a matter of being able to take that five minutes either from your free time or else exchange it for five minutes elsewhere. for two years i got up at a quarter to 5am so i could go to school instead of 6 like my peers and every year when the first week of school rolled around i was able to do it by going to bed earlier at night and doing stuff in the morning. the sum total of available hours is not changed guys, if you can stay up an hour later in the summer and sleep in an extra hour then you can just as easily go to bed an hour earlier and get up an hour sooner. this is one of the few times where you can effectively say that it IS a lack of self-motivation that causes problems


a big part of the problem is that we as a society do not put any effort into taking care of ourselves until we start having problems and taking no personal responsibility when it does happen. i do understand there are exceptions but those are few and far between and for the bulk of adult human beings this is not outside of reasonable




darling, i totally know most persons are unwilling to be responsible for themselves i am saying it is something that can be done not something i expect to have happen. i live with two people who i watch intentionally and directly harm themselves out of sheer laziness and unwillingness to change even for their own sake. it's a culturally accepted method of shifting the blame and absolving themselves of responsibility(though i do wish that there were effective advertisements for it, if people can get up at 3-4am for black-friday without being 'too tired' because tv told them to then the same advertising power can be used to get people to be able to adjust their clocks both mentally and physically and not hurt themselves and each other during daylight savings time)