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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.

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.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t, but that seems like a pretty easy thing to calculate. timeanddate.com (or your local weather service, probably) will give you times for sunrise and sunset on any given day; just:

    • subtract an hour from the sunrise and sunset times on June 21 to find out the earliest sunrise and latest sunset to convert to permanent standard time, or
    • add an hour to the sunrise and sunset times on December 21 to find out the latest sunrise and earliest sunset to convert to permanent DST.

    Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere, then flip those two.

    So if you’re in New York:

    • On permanent DST, the sun rises around 8:15 AM and sets around 5:30 PM on the shortest day of the year. (Longest day would be the same as it is now)
    • On permanent standard time, the sun rises around 4:30 AM and sets around 7:30 PM on the longest day of the year. (Shortest day would be the same as it is now)

    Add an hour per time zone going west to figure out what the times for each time zone would be. Also, New York is pretty near the center of what the UTC-5 time zone would be if it were just a straight longitudinal band, so if you’re near the eastern edge of your time zone it’ll be about a half hour earlier than that, and if you’re near the western edge of your time zone it’ll be about a half hour later than that.

    Personally, that 4:30 summer sunrise sounds brutal. Almost as brutal as the 4:30 sunset that they currently have in the winter. But I dunno, I feel like I could adapt to anything given enough time.

    I’m originally from Indianapolis, which is in Eastern but practically on the border with Central, so the winter solstice would be 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM in permanent DST and the summer solstice would be 5:15 AM - 8:15 PM in permanent standard. But I’m in Auckland currently, so worldwide permanent DST would actually line me up pretty nicely with my friends back home, which could be cool.