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US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by nightski »

nemo44x wrote: post #56
joezydeco wrote: post #45

We 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?

Because our politics are in many ways a clown show. It probably polls well when you ask regular people who haven't considered why we do this. That they feel sad because the Sun goes down at 5:00AM when it's cold but don't consider that without this then the Sun won't come up until 8:30AM.

Or that everyone except yourself isn't an idiot and they did in fact consider it and don't view that worth the trouble.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by nemo44x »

MrZongle2 wrote: post #42

I can understand the concern of other posters about going to DST as opposed to standard time... but at this point, I just want the switching to end. It is such an unnecessary disruption and fixing it seems so trivial.

It's total necessary and a great design. Without this then it would be dark until 8:30 in the morning during winter and the other way the Sun would rise at 4:30AM. These are both bad outcomes so we adjust the clocks so optimize these.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by mywittyname »

mrfusion wrote: post #22

Does the house need to pass it? Will the president veto it? When can I literally set my clock to this?

It's veto-proof anyway.

A lot of states have already passed similar laws and are merely waiting on the Federal law to come into effect. So it's likely to become law soon.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by itslennysfault »

aadvark69 wrote: post #11

Incoming mass patching of any and all Date/Time libraries

Honestly.... California already approved a measure to do this (there are a bunch more steps to make it actually happen). So, this is WAY better than if WA/OR were an hour apart from CA for half the year. Also, Seattle/Portland (etc) would suddenly not be America/Los_Angeles timezone anymore.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by moralestapia »

paxys wrote: post #67
TheCoelacanth wrote: post #26

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.

The amount of sunlight stays the same. The question is whether you want more of it in the morning or the evening, and there isn't a "correct" answer there. Going by general public sentiment I'm willing to bet it's more towards the latter though.

>The amount of sunlight stays the same.

Lol, no.

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

I know that's an extreme, but you get the idea.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by DocTomoe »

enraged_camel wrote: post #12
s1artibartfast wrote: post #2

>Sunshine Protection Act Jesus, does everything need to be hyperbolic virtue signaling. Won't someone please think of the children!

I would love someone to propose a bill that requires the elimination of hyperbolic virtue signaling from all future bills, perhaps as an additional step in whatever pipeline is used to produce bills. Just need a hyperbolic virtue signaling name for it!

The old art of the backronym was once florishing in the IT sector ... but like so many fun things, it eventually got axed by corporate.

Tag Regulations Understandable To Humans - TRUTH Act

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by trhway »

mirntyfirty wrote: post #5
s1artibartfast wrote: post #2

>Sunshine Protection Act Jesus, does everything need to be hyperbolic virtue signaling. Won't someone please think of the children!

That is pretty funny. Don’t want to be caught voting against the Sun

Until your constituents are vampires. Or you sold short sunglasses stock.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

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Post by basisword »

Can someone explain why they actually care about this? I always see such strong opinions on it but really, why does it matter to you? Most clocks are digital and change automatically these days and otherwise changing your clocks twice a year is such a minor inconvenience. And whether or not the light should be preferred in the morning or vending is probably a pretty even split. Maybe it’s better to get rid of it (I don’t know) but to care about it strongly seems odd. What am I missing?
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