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.
Then make it Standard time. Not DST.
I honestly don’t care which is picked. I just want the change to go away.
Fair. When the railroads in the US pushed for time zones we moved away from noon being the time when the sun was directly overhead to more of an average time when the sun was over essentially the middle of the zone. Now Congress is saying that noon is 1 hour before when the sun is overhead. That was true for half the year. Now it will always be true. We’re abstracting what noon is even further.
I am not too worried about it being abstract, and just because something used to be one way isn’t a very convincing argument for it to stay that way. And extra sunlight in the evening doesn’t seem terrible.
I’m aware different people have different preferences though. And I am not going to tell someone they are wrong on something that as far as I can tell is purely subjective.
What’s so special about the sun being at its highest point at noon? It doesn’t correspond to most people’s mid of the day these days anyway (that would need them to get up at 4 am and sleep at 8 pm); according to https://neurolaunch.com/when-do-most-people-go-to-sleep/ “Most adults go to sleep somewhere between 10:00 PM and midnight” meaning the middle of their day is between 2 and 4 pm (assuming 8 hours of sleep).
It’s literally the definition. Cowboys can no longer have gun fights at high noon because if no longer exists.
My biggest problem with this change is not ending the biannual time change. But moving to perminent DST. All that is doing is moving the goal post. Eventually everyone will get used to it and start moving store hours to matches what the sun is actually doing. We’ll adjust to the sun, not the other way around.
Try to pick sides on this time permanence is like someone saying “No thanks, that life vests color doesn’t jive with my outfit” while they stand on a sinking Titanic.
Current data seems to suggest standard time is better aligned with circadian rhythm for most people. https://www.daylightsavingtime.info/dst-vs-standard-time
That or split the difference.
That’s always seemed like a reasonable solution to me as well
Eventually the people who make the schedules will adapt to this new normal and the people who spent so much to push this on us will realize how dumb they are.