>Sunshine Protection Act Jesus, does everything need to be hyperbolic virtue signaling. Won't someone please think of the children!
This is just funny to me honestly.
US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
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#112Such 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.
I’ll take permanent Zulu time at this point
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#113>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.
It's a bad thing when they are passing laws that violate your privacy but call the act "the protect the children act" - I think this is the habit OP was referring to
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#114We 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?
Oh the children!
Give me a break. Go to school in the dark, or come home in the dark. Do that one time of year, or another. It all comes out in the wash.
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#115Does this still need to pass the House?
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#116We need a lot of new embedded devices. Lots of them have hardcoded when the time changes and have no way of taking it off.
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#117Is daylight savings time such a hassle? All my clocks update themselves. I hardly ever notice the difference.
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#118Does 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.
"making daylight savings time permanent"
Isn't that just changing the time zone and abolishing daylight savings?
"Senate votes"
What does this mean? Does it take effect forever starting from today? Does Senate have authority to actually enact the change or is that some other dude that actually flips the lever?
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#119I 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.
Is it really such a disruption? People fly across timezones all the time. Daylight savings and return to normal happen twice per year at entirely predictable times, and are modest changes – is it really so hard?
Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
#120Such 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.
I think I speak on behalf of most computer people when I say this: we prefer our extra hour of sunshine in the evenings not mornings.
Ditto.