politics

I read somewhere that the Senate wants it to be Standard instead of DST, which I agree would wind up being better for most locations (not all). So they'll probably fight over it and nothing will happen. We'll see. At this point I just want to stop having to change the damn clocks.

I used to favor permanent DST because I'm not a morning person, but I realize most people aren't night-owls like me, and by now there's been a lot of evidence presented that it's healthier to be in sync with sunlight and more important to get good sleep, especially for kids. Of course a lot of this also depends on which side of your time zone you live on.

Between the two positions, for a long time I favored permanent half-DST, which is setting clocks halfway between so the offset isn't that bad for health and both sides of the standard vs DST debate could live with it. There was even a bill proposed to do that, but I recently read an article listing a few drawbacks to being on the half-hour compared to most other countries--mostly that it would be "confusing" which isn't that strong of an argument IMO. I still think this would be a good solution if a bunch of other countries also did it. A few countries already are offset a half-hour from us and no one complains because they're not major economic forces.

Why couldn't they do permanent Standard Time? If history of permanent DST legislation prevails, this will be repealed within a year or two. Same as it will be in BC.

Bad move, this should be something done at the state level only. Some states benefit more from permanent DST while others benefit more from permanent ST.

Permanant DST was signed into law January 1974 and repealed October 1974. Everyone hated it, it went from 79% approval in December of 1973 to 46% in February of 1974.

I don't care which one they lock in, as long as they just fucking pick one and stick to it. It's the changing that's the problem - we all have electric lights ffs.

They'll fuck it up and pick the wrong time, and it will be dark at 4:30 PM for the rest of our lives.

In 50 years, they'll try to switch to the other time, but Conservatives will fight it because they think they'll lose two hours, and they'll literally threaten a Civil War over two hours, then someone will try to explain that they'll actually GAIN two hours, and they'll say it's a Communist hoax with their two Socialist hours, just handing them out to people who don't deserve them, like the welfare queens just helping themselves to as many hours as the Demon-rats can steal from the billionaires who have more hours than everybody else combined.

So they'll compromise, and go back to switching times twice a year to keep NOBODY happy, and America can go back to normal.

How close are they to impeaching pedophiles in office?

One of very few things that administration has done right

I'm happy to get rid of the change, but once again they ignore scientists and health experts with the choice of daylight time.

Would be better if it was clear they did any research on the subject. Last time this came around it was clear, standard time was better for us. This now just feels like rich people will keep us poors on DST while they get the clock humans get a better night sleep with and still somehow take our money.

I hate that I can believe something like this.

But Standard Time is superior! I oppose this measure!

A distraction it may be, but I'll take a win where I can get one. Idgaf which version of the clock we're going with, I just want it to be consistent

Watch Trump veto it because he didn't get his election rigging "SAVE" act passed.

Artificially suppressed gas prices despite soaring oil costs, extreme US-caused turmoil in Iran, and now making daylight savings time permanent?

Can we please go metric next? I'm old but an engineer (and a farmer) metric makes things so much easier...

This is good ... but the same kind of good like the captain of the Titanic declaring that the kitchens must supply vegetarian meal options to those who request it.

Yes, a good thing, but really far off from the most urgent issues facing the country, isn't it?