In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out.
Getting rid of this and getting the u.s. to finally do to metric are my two low bar societal dreams before I die
Well, depending on how you measure that, the metric system was adopted in the US federally either 50 or 35 years ago…
https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/executive-order-12770
When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, maybe even 3rd (early 80s) we were learning everything metric. But by the time I was in middle school we were having to relearn everything in standard.
We mostly didn’t learn about grams and ounces till highschool, but some Lebowski Overachievers figured it out in middle school…
The US is supposedly already converted to metric.
technicallythetruth
Per the Metric Act of 1866, the US customary units of length and mass were redefined based on the international metric system, making them essentially just weird conversion factors of the meter and kilogram.