Senate passes bill to end d.s.t.

[Fullduplexxx]

Good or bad?

[patphil]

1. what is d.s.t.?

[AZProgressive]

2. Daylight Savings Time

[patphil]

3. thank you.

[RicROC]

4. My take on it is, the Senate voted to end Standard time and keep Daylight Savings time.

not end Daylight savings time. Unless they mean, the new standard time will be our present daylight savings time?

And that is fine with me.

Also, kids should not be going to school so early in the morning, anyway.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. It's fine with me too . I prefer to keep it as it is now and not change back

[lagomorph777]

6. Yes, unfortunately.

So we get to get up earlier in the coldest part of the winter.

[Polybius]

7. Will it really be earlier?

If you have to get up at at 7:00 AM, it's still 7:00 no matter if we have DST or Standard Time. One might just be darker than the other, but you will get the same amount of sleep (unless it's the first day of change).

[lagomorph777]

8. Yes - more morning darkness to deal with. And it's coldest just before dawn.

[Bettie]

9. Those of us in places with

harsher winters will definitely feel the difference.

I'll have to drive my kid to school in winter.

[lagomorph777]

10. Yep - I see a lot of responses that must come from places with no winter.

[Bettie]

11. Yep

Our school starts at 8 am. Without changing back in the fall, it will be dark when they arrive at school.

But, it doesn't affect this year; goes into effect in 2023.

[Polybius]

13. Maybe it's just me being a weirdo, but I like morning darkness

I don't know why, but it's just kina cool to me. I understand that most likely disagree.

[Volaris]

12. I mean, sure whatever. The Senate has vastly more important things to do,

But baby steps, I guess?

[misanthrope]

14. Another wonderful example

of human beings' inability to learn from its previous mistakes. This was already tried about 50 years ago and met with such widespread criticism that it was quickly stopped and we went back to Standard Time in the winter.

One thing that has certainly changed since then is the pervasive influence of money on our political system. The reason Standard Time has been shortened in the last few decades is due to pressure from retailers who feel the extra sunlight prompts consumers to spend more money in the afternoons. It has nothing to do with what is best for energy, health, or other more common grassroots reasoning. It's about squeezing more money into the private sector. Lobbyists made sure those sensibilities were well stated on Capitol Hill in pushing legislators to tinker with the clock even more.

[CrackityJones75]

15. I mean ueah things are pretty much the same as 50 years ago.

not much has changed in the timeframe.

[misanthrope]

16. Astronomically, no they haven't

The sun will still be rising and setting on the same schedule as it has for far longer than the United States has been around.

We still operate on a national standard of the work week built around an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. day. Kids go to school about when their parents do on those days as well.

One thing that has happened is we have far more vehicles on the roads now. We also smartphones that get used all too frequently by those drivers. So now in the winter, we'll have groggy high schoolers in their SUVs with their faces planted in their phones while their hands are on the wheel.

[CrackityJones75]

17. I see far more boomers on their phones driving

And I drive for a living 7 hours a day.