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

[Spot]

Originally Posted by thedirtypirate

U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent in 2023

Personally, I am all for it. I hate changing the clocks and having to adjust to it.

Yes please. 100%.

Might literally be the most useful thing Congress does this year. Seriously. This is a good idea for everyone.

Call your House Representative if you support this, because the House still hasn't voted on it.

[albert648]

So....how many pages is this bill?

I guess our useless Congress got one thing right...

[Ceece]

I'd say I want a YES vote but I'd need to see the bill first. You know politicians.

[Freak80]

This proposed law is idiotic. It’s just redefining the clock with noon at 1pm instead of 12pm. And we’ll all be going to work in the dark in the fall and winter.

Just get rid of DST already.

[wizrap]

The senate passed unanimously the Sunshine Protection Act, making Daylight Saving Time permanent. Florida senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson were sponsors.

The bill also had Senators Whitehouse, Markey, Hyde-Smith, Wyden, Blunt and Lankford as sponsors.

Now on to The House. Don’t ********** up Congress!

[MattCW]

What a positively STUPID idea! Make it standard time and leave it alone! Or abolish timezones altogether and we all just use UTC.

[Freak80]

There’s a reason they’re not pushing this idiotic bill through in November.

[Ponderosa]

Great for Florida, maybe not so much for Maine. This was tried before, but come winter the darkness in the morning was too much to bear for those in higher latitudes so they went back to the dual system.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by MattCW

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

Much of the world has daylight time in summer, though the start and end are a little different from us. The entire EU goes on DST. All of Europe except Russia, Iceland and Belarus have DST.

[DTWflyer]

Sigh....it doesn't change the hours of daylight in the day.
That means where I live now it won't get light out from Nov-Feb until after 9am.

This is essentially going to force us all to time-shift everything an hour to the right.

What may be good for Florida isn't necessarily good for the northern tier of states.

Have any of them thought of the ramifications for everything like transportation, schools, broadcasts, employers, etc that rely upon the current schedule.

Just leave it the way it is today.