U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time Permanent (vote, world)

[moneill]

Why can't we just adjust our time by half an hour once and be done. 30 minute shift either way is not going to turn the USA upside down.

[GuyNTexas]

Originally Posted by MattCW

No, it will be permanently established. We'll be one hour wrong compared to the rest of the world

Not an issue …. We don’t share the same time with the rest of the world anyway …. Hell, there is a three hour difference between New York and Los Angeles, and three different time zones between the coasts.

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by Winterbeard

the oddity of being in a .5 of an hour time zone. Like Mumbai.

Or right across the border here in Newfoundland

[mascoma]

Why does everyone like the sun so much? It gives you cancer. And even worse - wrinkles.

[jetgraphics]

Next thing you know, CONgress will enact a law telling the tides to change to metric.

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by mascoma

Why does everyone like the sun so much? It gives you cancer. And even worse - wrinkles.

Part of the "Nuke the Sun" lobby?

[jetgraphics]

A. There is no "saving" of daylight, forcing everyone to move clocks ahead.
B. The whole notion of "high noon" (sun at its zenith, more or less) would be "high one". Midnight would be "Mid one".
C. It shows how utterly useless and incompetent the Senate is, wasting time and energy on such rubbish.

[Winterbeard]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

Or right across the border here in Newfoundland

Ooh yeah, forgot about them. And there's nothing weird about Newfoundlanders.

[Eyebee Teepee]

Originally Posted by Three Wolves In Snow

Good to see the Senate is working on the most important issues.

basically, anything they can agree on that doesn't cost billions is a good thing in my book.

But yes, on the list of pressing matters this ranks low ... unless they went the opposite way and shortened my summer days!!!

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by beachGecko

The healthiest thing is to always wake up before sunrise and never sleep during times of daylight.

In the summer, even with DST, I'd be waking up before 4:30 a.m. No thank you.

Originally Posted by Oldglory

Why do people in the northeast need daylight till 10 pm in the evening in the summer?.

We need it more at 9 p.m. (not 10 p.m. - twilight ends in Philly a few minutes after 9 at the summer solstice with DST) than we do at 4 a.m., which is what would happen if we were on standard time year round.

Originally Posted by tipsyguam

I find it funny how much people complain about this. If the biggest thing i had to be worry about was change a few clocks(many of which are automagically changed these days) every 6 months Id have a simple life. So many snowflakes.

Right? It takes how long to reset a few clocks twice a year? I don't understand the outrage.

Originally Posted by Oldglory

What about the conservation issue ere in the southwest that I mentioned? Isn't that more important?

It's important to you. It's not important to me. My geographic region having daylight later in the day is important to me. It's not important to you. See how that works?