Bill to Make Daylight Saving Permanent Reemerges From the Dark

[winetourdriver01]

Just when sun worshippers lost hope for longer days in gloomy winter months, the Senate may give permanent daylight saving another try.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act in the Senate on Wednesday, months after the same bill, which the Senate passed unanimously last March, died in the House at the end of the last session. The bill would end the practice of turning the clocks back one hour to standard time every November and make daylight saving time, which currently begins in March, last throughout the year.

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. Please just do it this time.

It’s silly we change the clocks still.

[jimfields33]

11. I love the sumner nights though. I hope it fails.

[jcgoldie]

13. It doesnt affect summer nights

It affects what time it gets dark in winter.

[jimfields33]

29. Oh wow. So it'd still be light at 8:30ish?

[sir pball]

30. Yes, this bill is to abolish the time change by making DST permanent nt

[jimfields33]

31. Wow. That is great. I guess I had no idea how it'd work.

Thank you so much!!!

[jcgoldie]

32. In the morning yes

Depending on how far north you are, the days will still be a lot shorter in the winter because the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun. The difference with permanent DST would be an hour of daylight would be shifted in the winter from morning to afternoon… so like where I live in the midwest in january instead of daylight from 730-430 it would be 830-530 for example. It would not affect from March to November at all because most of the country already uses DST then.

[Polybius]

38. No

Let's say it got dark at 5:00 on Christmas, 2022. Well, if passed, Christmas would get dark at 6:00 instead. It will be an hour difference. Winters will always get dark earlier. Blame the Sun and gravity.

[kysrsoze]

2. If there's anything they can do bipartisan it's this. PLEASE!!!

It’s so dark and depressing in winter with the sun going down at 4.

[napi21]

3. I hope this bill passes. I heard , years ago, the reason to have this change the clocks thing,

but it's outlived it's usefulness. Let's just keep a time, standard or savings, I don't care.

[sarcasmo]

10. Golf courses lobbied hard to keep daylight savings time. Link below.

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2021/06/05/golf-daylight-saving-time/

[rurallib]

4. I will cast a vote for year round standard timer.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I actually wish they'd go the other way - eliminate Daylight Savings all together.

Ah well, the politicians never consult me and they can change time, adulterate money.

[Polybius]

39. I like late sundown Summers

But I see your point.

[world wide wally]

6. Personally, I'drather see permenant standard time.

[ms liberty]

7. K&R please make it so! n/t

[meow2u3]

8. Just what we need: winter sunrise at 8:30-9 AM

I have enough trouble with my cat meowing me awake until I get up to feed her; it's going to get worse if sunrise is at 9 in the morning.

[Shermann]

9. There's a reason this issue comes up again and again

...and it's not because of its importance. It's the opposite, really. It's because it is a bike-shed issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

Everybody is affected by it, and nobody believes it to be particularly complex in nature. So, everybody has an opinion, and nobody is afraid to voice theirs. So here we are.

[Journeyman]

12. Settle on the half hour and be done with it . . .

that way, everyone can feel they won something.

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. Good idea

I'd rather the proposal pass as-is, and keep daylight savings time, but I could live with this compromise.

The problem is we'd be a half-hour off from the rest of the world.

[Raine]

26. Yes! 👍 nt

[Easterncedar]

14. We tried this before in, what, 72?

Make it standard time all year, and I’m with you, but folks hated sending the kids off to school in pitch darkness. It lasted ONE winter.

[FoxNewsSucks]

16. Damn I hope it passes this time.

I hate having it get dark early, for many reasons.

It would be so much better to have it light later in the day.

[Easterncedar]

18. Tried in 1974, per Wikipedia

“Permanent DST in the US was briefly enacted by president Richard Nixon in 1974, in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The new permanent DST law was retracted within the year. Year-round daylight saving time was initially supported by 79% of the public, but that support had dropped to 42% after its first winter.”

Santayana’s rule, exemplified.

[2naSalit]

19. In the northern states...

It almost doesn't matter. It's going to be a really short day no matter what. So what if it's sunrise at 8 or 9? You're still probably going to work in the dark and going home in the dark.

[jcgoldie]

20. I realize my situation is not the majority but...

As a small farmer who works an 8-4 job off the farm that extra hour of daylight in the afternoon during the depths of winter would be invaluable.

[2naSalit]

21. I hear you.

I just remember going to work in the dark in the winter much of my life, when stationary.

What's wrong with, what is it, Standard Time? Why can't we have that all year?

It never made sense to me and when I was blasting across time zones all the time, it just added another layer of complexity to everything.

[Silent3]

22. About 1/3 want year-round DST, about 1/3 year-round ST, about 1/3 would keep the change

Even when I lived in NH (which was just six months ago), I preferred the idea of permanent standard time.

Now that I'm living in Ohio, a lot further west in the same timezone, permanent standard time is even more appealing.

It's pretty damned dark in the in the depths of winter here in Ohio, in the early morning when kids are picked up from school. Permanent DST would make that much worse.

[FemDemERA]

23. I would welcome a change, but only if

We were to go all standard time, like Arizona and Hawaii.

My inner clock would be happy with that

[friend of a friend]

24. The only fair thing to do is have the federal government pick one.

Then every state will vote on it and those opposed can secede from the union. I'm just beating her to it.

[keithbvadu2]

25. from six months ago - DST

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[Raine]

27. I would prefer Standard year round. nt

[Montauk6]

28. Didn't Cheney/Bush have a hand in tampering with this the last time?

Or is that just my "fuzzy history" kickin' in again?

[winetourdriver01]

33. Found this

https://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/daylight_saving_time_extended.shtml

[Montauk6]

40. Thanks for that!

[Zeitghost]

34. I like the status quo

The change is a minor inconvenience in the spring, but I prefer aligning the standard workday to daylight hours. I think it makes the most sense for the most people.

[maxsolomon]

35. I'm in that same apparent minority.

Up here at 47 degrees north, it makes sense to switch back and forth.

As I've said repeatedly on this topic, DST puts the daylight where it is most useful.

I don't need the sun to come up before 5 am in the summer. I like it to stay light until almost 10.

And F Rubio no matter what he proposes.

[meadowlander]

36. It's a lot easier to adjust start times for schools and the handful of jobs where it matters

than to make the entire country readjust their biological clocks twice a year.

[wishstar]

37. I prefer year round Standard since I hate the dark mornings that will be even darker under DST

Where I live those who must go to school and work by 7 am are already in the dark and will have to endure even darker mornings in winter if we go under permanent DST. Now many workers and school kids are able to have some light in morning and then go home by 5:30 when there is still some daylight but they won't benefit much with extended evening daylight if they have to get out in the cold and dark in mornings.

Possible solution if we go to DST is to change school and work hours to let people go in an hour earlier and leave an hour later.