What happened to ending Daylight Savings Time changes?

[edhopper]

I thought they were voting to end it?

[Thrill]

1. House never voted on it

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Damn them!!!

I don't know why they let that die. Never heard any explanation.

[edhopper]

3. Why

it was a win-win and would show the Dems do things that affect everyone's lives. It's a simple narrative they could sell.

[NutmegYankee]

12. It is also highly unpopular.

I think just ending DST and staying on Standard time would win more support.

And I say this as someone who lives in New England, where the sun would rise at 4:00 AM in June on Standard time. I like DST for that reason.

[moonscape]

13. Would from me!

[Amishman]

15. And for me the sun rising at 8:30am in december if we stayed on DST is equally terrible

keep it how it is, best solution to a difficult problem

[nattyice]

17. Standard Time is the only sensible time for the winter.

Just end DST time if we’re the fragile to deal with the shift.

[jcgoldie]

4. The bill was to make permanent DST

Not to end it.

[edhopper]

6. Right

corrected

[Demsrule86]

10. That would have been great...I wonder if anyone understands how living in constant darkness

during the winter months causes quite a bit of depression and it would save quite a bit of energy too. The lights are on much longer after DST ends.

[jcgoldie]

21. I agree

As a farmer who also works full time off the farm I really really hate when DST ends. From November through March I get home to the farm with barely any time to take care of outdoor responsibilities. I would guess most people living in rural areas across the country would prefer permanent DST. It simply makes a larger percentage of the day usable throughout the year.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Fucking DST. The twice yearly bane of data centers and application support people worldwide.

[Shipwack]

5. If I recall correctly...

It was passed by accident, to the horror of both parties, and got sent back for some "fine-tuning" until everyone forgets about it.

Then we can devote all of our attention to the war in Eastasia, with whom we have always fought... 🤔

[inthewind21]

7. see below

On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously approved the Sunshine Protection Act, which would end the practice of changing the clocks twice a year by November 2023 and bring peace to those Americans whose serotonin crashes when it gets dark in the middle of the afternoon for no good reason at all.”

[NJCher]

8. Dst

Great for early birds, not so great for gardening night owls.

Around here I even hear people running their lawnmowers in the dark.

[Demsrule86]

9. Nope...Some folks in warm states Southern or Western states want to end Daylight Savings. I live in

Ohio. It is dark here by 530. by next month it will be before 5:00. In Connecticut and Pennsylvania, it was 4:30 in December. No, doubt it uses more energy than if we were on Daylight savings time all year. I hate it when we lose Daylight Savings time. It causes depression and means elementary kids can't even go out and play after school.

[edhopper]

11. I was corrected

they would make DST permanent.

[NutmegYankee]

16. In New England I and my coworkers call December the "Dark to the Dark".

We drive to work in the darkness, and we drive home in the darkness, only seeing daylight from an office window.

[Meadowoak]

18. Nancy Pelosi said we have more important things to deal with at

This time. And never brought it up for a vote, that's ok, we can always do it at another time.

[edhopper]

19. That was a mistake

doing things that directly affect the lives of everyday workers should be done. I know infrastructure and health care are more important, but they are more complicated, this was an easy win, and saying "we have more important things to do" makes us sound elitist.

[hunter]

20. We should probably get rid of time zones entirely.

Just as people adapt to the seasons being opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, they'd adapt locally to universal time. We don't rename the months to correspond with the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere, December is December everywhere, so why not do the same with clocks?

It would get rid of a lot of silliness and confusion.

[ratchiweenie]

22. For all of us who live in Northern states and especially mountain states,

going to full time DST is very popular. If you happen to live in a valley, it can start to get dark at about 3:30 and be fully dark by 5. Very depressing.

[progree]

23. In Minnesota we ask, "what's daylight?", as we spin in a tight circle around the North Pole /nt