Senate Unanimously Approves Making Daylight Savings Time Permanent

[hanselthecaretaker]

Senate unanimously approves making daylight saving time permanent

The Senate on Tuesday approved a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent, which if passed in the House and signed by President Biden, would mean Americans would never again have to set thei…

thehill.com

 

[Buyetyen]

Fucking finally.

 

[Trunkage]

Just had a friend visit Victoria who has Daylights Savings. Thought it was the worse. Could not agree more

You don't lose anytime. Time does not work like that

 

[Ezekiel]

The bill, known as the Sunshine Protection Act, earned 17 cosponsors from both parties in the upper chamber and was passed by unanimous consent. Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, has long been a proponent of making the clock change permanent and led the push to pass the bill.

"The good news is if we can get this passed, we don't have to keep doing this stupidity anymore," Rubio said on the Senate floor. "Hopefully this is the year that this gets done and, pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come."

Fuck Florida. God damn.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I hav unexpectedly strong feelings about this.

Not that it happened, because it's needed to, but because we aren't A) sticking with Standard Time or B) realizing that the problem is where the hour sits in the first place and we should've just shifted it a half-hour as a compromise

 

[Kwak]

It's not april 1st yet.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

The way it's worded makes it sound like it's doing the opposite of what it's doing and I hate it.
Also why'd they have to wait until after the time change!
Now we riot!

 

[Seanchaidh]

I'd prefer Standard Time only, but one or the other is better than half and half of both.

 

[Generals]

Senate unanimously approves making daylight saving time permanent

The Senate on Tuesday approved a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent, which if passed in the House and signed by President Biden, would mean Americans would never again have to set thei…

thehill.com

Lucky you, we've been talking about this for years but yet we are still stupidly changing hours twice a year. Daytime saving time ftw.

 

[Baffle]

Ah god I hate the clock change. Spring forward, fall back? How about you fuck off instead? Farmers aren't getting up in the dark to claim their fallow-land subsidies!

 

[Kwak]

Bring back Universal Sundial Time.

 

[Schadrach]

You don't lose anytime. Time does not work like that

Read The Witching Hour by Scott Alexander. It's a neat little piece of fiction that that comment reminded me of.

 

[tstorm823]

I'd prefer Standard Time only...

This is genuinely your worst opinion yet.

 

[evilneko]

ITT: I agree with Marco Rubio and Seanchaidh on something.

It is surely the end times.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Ah god I hate the clock change. Spring forward, fall back? How about you fuck off instead? Farmers aren't getting up in the dark to claim their fallow-land subsidies!

Well that’s just the thing; it’s trading morning light for evening light. The old “9-5” argument is kind of a joke too as highways are full of cars shortly after 7 AM when I’m going to work. It’ll still be close to setting when I leave at 5 too.

I always thought Ben Franklin started it but that’s not exactly the case. He apparently favored morning light (“early to bed, early to rise”), which is the opposite of DST.

8 Things You May Not Know About Daylight Saving Time

The idea has nothing to do with farmers, for one thing.

www.history.com

They say it’ll be better for after school stuff with kids but now they’ll just be waiting at dark bus stops in the morning. The sun will still be setting way too early too. I think we’d be better off just sticking to standard time since DST was kinda stupid and pointless in the first place.

The Senate just voted to make daylight saving time permanent. Good.

The case against changing clocks is less about extending sunsets later all year and more about staying consistent.

www.vox.com

The article says, “good”, but illustrates standard time as being more beneficial in terms of reasonable sunrise/sunset times across the U.S. at least.

 

[Seanchaidh]

This is genuinely your worst opinion yet.

Yes.

 

[Dalisclock]

Senate unanimously approves making daylight saving time permanent

The Senate on Tuesday approved a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent, which if passed in the House and signed by President Biden, would mean Americans would never again have to set thei…

thehill.com

Feels weird to hear the words "Senate" and "Unanimous" in the same sentence. There's normally one guy **CoughRandPaulCough** who feels like being contrary.

 

[bluegate]

Glad I don't live wherever that was decided upon.

I'm quite fond of my switcharoos with the clock.

I like being able to see the sun in the morning before going out in the winter.

I also like not getting woken up by the sun at 4AM in the summer and I quite enjoy it still being light out at 9:30pm-10pm.

 

[CM156]

I just want the time switching to end.
I saw people complaining about school starting when it's dark. Perhaps we should start school later.

 

[tstorm823]

Glad I don't live wherever that was decided upon.

I'm quite fond of my switcharoos with the clock.

I like being able to see the sun in the morning before going out in the winter.

I also like not getting woken up by the sun at 4AM in the summer and I quite enjoy it still being light out at 9:30pm-10pm.

If they go with permanent daylight savings, the only one of those problems that exists is seeing the sun in the morning before going outside in the winter, which could pretty cleanly be resolved by sleeping in all winter.