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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 UncleOxidant »

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.

Standard time in June means the sun comes up at 4AM. I prefer DST, but either way let's just stop fiddling with the clocks. Maybe we could split the difference and just fall back 1/2 an hour this Fall? (and then just hold it there)

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

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Post by ggrrhh_ta »

puffoflogic wrote: post #155
arjvik wrote: post #19

So are we permanently going to be on "{Eastern,Central,Mountain,Pacific} Daylight Time"? Or are we redefining the time zones "{Eastern,Central,Mountain,Pacific} Standard Time"?

Given that the US Congress doesn't really have the social authority to do the latter...

A comment above states exactly the opposite.

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

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Post by ghaff »

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.

It also varies by where you're located in a time zone and what latitude you are at. Somewhere like Boston, you basically have dark at both ends of the day in the winter no matter how you move things around. And it's also pretty light in the morning and light until quite far into the evening in winter. Boston should really be in Atlantic time based on longitude but it doesn't make sense to be in a different time zone than the rest of the East Coast.

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

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Post by tromp »

chapium wrote: post #47

I know this is hardly a radical take, but I don't care what time it is. I can adjust my schedule appropriately. What I hate is changing the time. It makes us all sicker, causes accidents, and workers in certain professions have to work weird hours to keep up with the changes. It's such a drag on the economy and only seems to serve a small fragment of society.

It also makes the timezone differences vary as different zones switch on different dates. Hopefully the whole world will come to their senses and we get rid of the changes globally so that timezone differences will be fixed.

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

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Post by ryanmcbride »

technothrasher wrote: post #58

Does this mean that I will no longer be able to smugly remind people that there is only one 's' in "daylight saving time"? It was really the only reason I could see for keeping the biannual time change around.

Don't worry I'm sure you can find something else to be pendantic about

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

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Post by gnulinux »

puffoflogic wrote: post #155
arjvik wrote: post #19

So are we permanently going to be on "{Eastern,Central,Mountain,Pacific} Daylight Time"? Or are we redefining the time zones "{Eastern,Central,Mountain,Pacific} Standard Time"?

Given that the US Congress doesn't really have the social authority to do the latter...

I think you're wrong. They really are re-defining e.g. EST to be the current DST but without yearly DST change.
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