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.
I assume you don’t live somewhere where it gets dark at 3pm in winter. The morning will be dark regardless, let me have that little bit of sun coming home from work
I live in SWEDEN, try again
Change your schedule, not the clock
We’re in DST twice as much as we’re in standard time. Keeping DST year round is the option most adherent to “change your schedule, not the clock”. Adjusting winter hours for things is just as viable as adjusting summer hours is, so I’m not understanding why everybody insists on standard time year round and then says that it doesn’t matter what the clock says because you can just change behaviors. Like yeah, we’re saying the same thing, but we barely experience standard time so why would that be the one we pick? There’s less to change if we pick DST.
Who is? It’s not 8/4 here.
No, not when you put the sun and clock out of sync. Just fucking change when you set your alarm if you don’t want the health benefit of morning sun.
Having a deliberately wrong clock because there’s an unjustified offset when you don’t need the offset is stupid.
I’m not really sure I understand your comment.
Who is what? Who is experiencing twice as much DST as standard time? The US. And the post is about changing what the US does, so that’s a relevant detail. I don’t really care that Sweden doesn’t do that because nobody is talking about Sweden.
No, not what?
Idk dude, you seem really upset and I can’t really make heads or tails of it.
And regardless of if it’s Sweden or USA, it’s still stupid to have a misaligned clock.
I’m not upset, just annoyed that people choose to be stupid when they know there’s a better choice.
I guess I just don’t see the point of doing it that way. You’re not wrong, but we’re already on DST so much more, so it’s less disruptive to just keep that in place here. What we call the time is arbitrary, even if it wasn’t always that way. I’d rather just go with DST year round than get stuck bickering over whether standard is the better choice and then pass nothing and keep this dumbass system of changing the clocks in November and March every year, fucking up sleep schedules and causing more car crashes and having confusing computer anomalies because our clocks change but theirs don’t.