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.
And that really doesn’t matter because you can just change what hours your office or school or whatever operates to suit your ideal daylight situation. And if you still want to change based on longer days in summer, plenty of places have “summer hours” and are open later to take advantage of later sunset, so this really isn’t a new concept.
That’s just not how businesses work. We need times to be consistent so that shipping, etc all works.
Yes, we all need to be in agreement about what time it is, but every business has different working hours. Starbucks opens before Staples for a good reason. And Starbucks has a later close time in the summer because there’s more demand later if the sun is still up. If we all change all clocks one way or the other, Starbucks keeps the same schedule relative to the sun and what other people are doing. They don’t strictly stick to the same open and close times if we decided to move the clocks by 6 hours, so there’s no reason to believe that they would if it only moved 1 hour.
Not sure you got my point though. Starbucks has a supplier. They need to be on the same schedule as their supplier for deliveries to work. And that supplier supplies numerous other businesses.
You’re right. I don’t get your point. They are already supplying just fine. Starbucks already adjusts store hours seasonally, and they’re not unique in this. It’s not that complicated to work out.
Legitimately, after the first year, we’ll all see that it’s so much better that it’s insane that we didn’t do this sooner.