Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.
Honestly don’t even care at this point, would take either way to end this nonsense.
US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
51–60 of 1001 posts
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#52Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.
DST is just what’s needed.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#53>Sunshine Protection Act Jesus, does everything need to be hyperbolic virtue signaling. Won't someone please think of the children!
When did virtue signaling become a bad thing? If the goal of the act is to protect people's access to sunshine, why not say as much -- at least the act has a human readable name.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#54Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.
Really, the choice is a tradeoff between earlier sunrises or later sunsets.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#55Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#56We did this before. 46 years ago. And it went badly. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-sav... Why do we have such short memories?
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#57Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#58Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#59What does this mean in terms of short-term, real-world effect in the US?
One of the arguments for Day light savings change is that -- it would still be dark during the time kids go to school in winter, early spring and late fall, many places in US will not have Sun rise at 8:00am. No matter how much we may be removed from the nature -- our wakeful hours are directly impacted by Sun rise and Sun set. On the other side, there are discomforts in moving the clock twice a year across the board.
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#60Won’t take effect until 2023, but good to see it happen.
Can you explain to me why this is good. It seems like a pain, but I assume there must be a good reason for it. Does it truly save energy? Is this documented somewhere?