Daylight Savings Time (2020)
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Daylight Savings Time (2020)
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#2Oregon and Washington have already passed bills to change, but the bills require California to also pass one, and they have not. Oregon signed their bill in 2019.
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#3This is pretty silly nowadays. Sure, we don't need it. But I give even odds that folks would complain about how off sunrise and sunset are in non equator places.
Edit: I should say that my post is mostly inline with the updates to this article.
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#4We don't.
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#5We need daylight savings time. What we don't need is standard time.
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#6The US tried a 2-year experiment of eliminating Daylight Savings Time back in the 1970s, and it was so reviled in practice that it was cancelled after 7 months.
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#7I care more about sunset than sunrise, so if people are proposing to get rid of DST instead of making permanent DST I will fight them tooth and nail.
I get that it's subjective, but my subjective view is that having sunlight after work is more important, and I stand by that.
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#8We need daylight savings time. What we don't need is standard time.
Why not just use standard time, and shift schedules so that standard office hours are from 10am-6pm?
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#10I care more about sunset than sunrise, so if people are proposing to get rid of DST instead of making permanent DST I will fight them tooth and nail. I get that it's subjective, but my subjective view is that having sunlight after work is more important, and I stand by that.
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