I just hope we permanently end Daylight Savings Time and stick with Standard Time. It’s detrimental to everyone’s health
Come to New England and see if you still have the same opinion. The sun sets before 4 pm some days of the year. Standard time can go fuck itself.
Maybe we could just pin DST on?
Something something broken clock is right twice a day…
in this case, the broken clock is spinning erratically, and is never correct.
A lot of people don’t like daylight savings.
I would like to stop changing the clocks. I read a while back that in the 1970s they did it and reverted back because so many people complain about getting up in the dark. Seems like it would be best to keep the winter hours honestly. All the proposal I’ve seen want summer time.
Who wants a 4am sunrise in the summer though? I think more people prefer extra light in the evening since you’re out and about already. It doesn’t make much different in the winter whether sunrise is at 8am or 9am since everyone is getting up and going to work/school in the dark either way.
To be fair, a place I go in the US the sun is already coming up at 4 in the summer. Maybe split the difference?
(X) Doubt
DOGE won’t be able to do anything because it’s a fake office made to keep Elon happy enough to fund Trump. It won’t last a year before Musk and Trump hate each other because two narcissists like that can’t share a space.
He can recommend ending DST all he wants, but nobody will have to listen to him.
There is already a push for this though. Not eliminating DST, but making it permanent. This is just DOGE trying to take credit for something that could potentially already happen. Like how the GAO already exists and DOGE is just citing reports the GAO already has done. Nothing says efficiency like putting two people in charge of a program that is duplicating what another agency already does.
Agree. DST is set by an act of Congress, and it can only be changed by an act of Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act
Sunshine Protection Act of 2018: Died in committee in House and Senate
Sunshine Protection Act of 2019: Died in committee in House and Senate
Sunshine Protection Act of 2021: Passed Senate, died in committee in House
Sunshine Protection Act of 2023: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce
Numerous polls have found that most Americans believe that a standard time should be fixed and permanent—as many as 75% favor no longer changing clocks twice per year.[18] One of the most common observations among researchers of varying backgrounds is that the change itself causes most of the negative effects, more so than either standard time or daylight saving time.[1] Researchers have observed numerous ill effects of the annual transitions, including reduced worker productivity, increased heart attacks and strokes, increased medical errors,[19] and increased traffic incidents.[3]
The debate over the bill mainly concerns whether it is better to have more sunlight in the morning or the evening. A 2023 YouGov poll found that half of Americans supported permanent daylight time, 31% were in favor of permanent standard time, and 19% had no preference or were not sure.
So what you are saying is that to get it approved we just need to sell is as pro-business.
I look forward to this.
Well, cue the comments about stopped clocks and righteousness.
