Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

twitter.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

831–840 of 1001 posts

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

#831

Post by downrightmike »

stormbrew wrote: post #506

I'd kill for a peek into the parallel universe where it was permanent standard time that was likely to get adopted and see how much effort went into researching the ill effects of that choice to convince people with enough FUD to keep daylight time switching going. Here's the thing: If you're a proponent of permanent standard time, you should be in favour of turning off the switching no matter what. Even if it means…

It would be awesome if everyone could just stay on their winter schedule. Having only a East or West time zone instead of EST, CST, MST, AZ, PST.

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

#832

Post by cjohnson318 »

DST is inconvenient, but in the grand scheme of things like critical infrastructure spending, gerrymandering, voter suppression, congressional insider trading, congressional term limits, sensible gun control, regulating the insurance industry, among other things, voting on daylight savings time is an extreme example of bike-shedding.

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

#834

Post by seanmcdirmid »

cjohnson318 wrote: post #832

DST is inconvenient, but in the grand scheme of things like critical infrastructure spending, gerrymandering, voter suppression, congressional insider trading, congressional term limits, sensible gun control, regulating the insurance industry, among other things, voting on daylight savings time is an extreme example of bike-shedding.

We've been eagerly waiting for this vote for 8 years. Out of all the hard problems to solve, an up or down vote on letting states adopt full year DST should have been a no brainer.

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

#835

Post by greenknight »

bigbluedots wrote: post #830

I love the title of the bill: "Sunshine Protection Act". This is great news. I am in Australia, and if this becomes law in the States it is more likely to be seriously considered here. We have a situation with half the country on DST and the other half on standard time. It hits a lot of us very hard at the end of April when DST ends.

Following on from this, Queensland is usually considered part of the East Coast of Australia. Which is 30 minutes ahead of South Australia (normally).

Then when the switch over summer, queensland doesnt switch whilst the rest of the east coast (nsw and vic) and south australia switches. Which results in queensland being 'behind' in time compared to SA, even though very far east on the globe (1300km east, 1600km away)

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

#838

Post by pc2g4d »

I just saw a poll yesterday showing greater support for permanent standard time.

After all, it is "standard".

The farther we get from "noon" being the sun directly overhead, the worse for health, in my view.

But probably this is better than switching twice a year.

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

#839

Post by comicjk »

kccqzy wrote: post #837

So far it's not showing up on the official website of Congress: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623... I'd also love to read the relevant Congressional Record to see how senators debated this bill.

Reuters agrees (it's not just on Twitter). https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-tha...
Post reply on HN