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.
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.