The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.
It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.
It’s gonna be fun to see how many software updates this requires. But if they stick with it, I guess it might make things easier.
Sadly, it won’t mean the problem goes away for software to handle since this would only be in the United States…
Farmers will figure it out. What a stupid thing to say.
Daylight savings time is being fucking stupid and out of date.
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Why couldn’t they do permanent Standard Time? If history of permanent DST legislation prevails, this will be repealed within a year or two. Same as it will be in BC.
Saskatchewan is effectively on year-round daylight savings time and has been for decades, and they love it. History is not as clear-cut that it will get reversed.
I don’t care which one they lock in, as long as they just fucking pick one and stick to it. It’s the changing that’s the problem - we all have electric lights ffs.
Permanant DST was signed into law January 1974 and repealed October 1974. Everyone hated it, it went from 79% approval in December of 1973 to 46% in February of 1974.
Arizona loved it
Did they? Because Arizona was actually exempt from the 1974 change and chose to stay at standard time. They made Standard Time permanent in 1968.
They’ll fuck it up and pick the wrong time, and it will be dark at 4:30 PM for the rest of our lives.
In 50 years, they’ll try to switch to the other time, but Conservatives will fight it because they think they’ll lose two hours, and they’ll literally threaten a Civil War over two hours, then someone will try to explain that they’ll actually GAIN two hours, and they’ll say it’s a Communist hoax with their two Socialist hours, just handing them out to people who don’t deserve them, like the welfare queens just helping themselves to as many hours as the Demon-rats can steal from the billionaires who have more hours than everybody else combined.
So they’ll compromise, and go back to switching times twice a year to keep NOBODY happy, and America can go back to normal.
I read somewhere that the Senate wants it to be Standard instead of DST, which I agree would wind up being better for most locations (not all). So they’ll probably fight over it and nothing will happen. We’ll see. At this point I just want to stop having to change the damn clocks.
I used to favor permanent DST because I’m not a morning person, but I realize most people aren’t night-owls like me, and by now there’s been a lot of evidence presented that it’s healthier to be in sync with sunlight and more important to get good sleep, especially for kids. Of course a lot of this also depends on which side of your time zone you live on.
Between the two positions, for a long time I favored permanent half-DST, which is setting clocks halfway between so the offset isn’t that bad for health and both sides of the standard vs DST debate could live with it. There was even a bill proposed to do that, but I recently read an article listing a few drawbacks to being on the half-hour compared to most other countries–mostly that it would be “confusing” which isn’t that strong of an argument IMO. I still think this would be a good solution if a bunch of other countries also did it. A few countries already are offset a half-hour from us and no one complains because they’re not major economic forces.
How close are they to impeaching pedophiles in office?
Bad move, this should be something done at the state level only. Some states benefit more from permanent DST while others benefit more from permanent ST.
I’m happy to get rid of the change, but once again they ignore scientists and health experts with the choice of daylight time.
One of very few things that administration has done right
It was tried. They made DST permanent in Jan. 1974. It was repealed in Oct. 1974. Fastest I’ve ever heard of Congress fixing some shit it was so unpopular.
Yes, they should have stuck with standard time instead of DST. OTOH, the thing everyone complained about was their kids having to walk to and from school in the dark. Now no one walks to school any more, so that doesn’t apply (yes believe it or not most kids used to walk or ride their bike to and from school back then, unless it was too far and they rode the bus).
Would be better if it was clear they did any research on the subject. Last time this came around it was clear, standard time was better for us. This now just feels like rich people will keep us poors on DST while they get the clock humans get a better night sleep with and still somehow take our money.
I hate that I can believe something like this.
I mean, if you’re self employed, it can already work that way. I never set up any meetings before noon, that way I wake with the sun. Sure it means that I’m starting my day at kinda random times as far as the clock is concerned, but my body likes that way better than setting an alarm to wake at the same clock time every day.
This is what working second shift is like. Wake up whenever, go to bed whenever. It was nice. Well, that part was nice. Everything else about it sucked.
I loved working second shift for that reason! I never had to set my alarm! And I’m a night owl anyway so going to sleep at 1:30 or 2:00 am was fine. The part that sucked was I was working while other people were off work and awake so I only saw them on weekends. But I’m also mostly a loner so that was actually fine too. :)
A distraction it may be, but I’ll take a win where I can get one. Idgaf which version of the clock we’re going with, I just want it to be consistent