U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent in 2023
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, a move supporters say would make winter afternoons brighter and end the twice changing of clocks.
The measure still needs approval from the U.S. House of Representatives and the backing of President Joe Biden. On Sunday, most of the United States resumed Daylight Savings Time, moving ahead one hour. The United States will resume standard time in November 2022.
Senator Marco Rubio said after input from airlines and broadcasters that supporters agreed that the change would not take place until November 2023.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/
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AZLD4Candidate
(5,755 posts)Why am I not shocked?
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,755 posts)She comes on huge for something like this, but torpedoes more important things.
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Do they not get that no daylight is actually saved?
It would be better to just do away with it. The clock was originally intended to align with the day. Now Congress seems to think they control the rotation of the Earth. Give us back our one hour of sleep.
Polybius
(15,476 posts)Personally, I favor the status quo.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Polybius
(15,476 posts)Some people are still adjusting from Sunday, but you've been switching twice a year all of your life. You never get used to it?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I just think it's idiotic to mess with people's physiology for no reason at all.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)It's probably better not to have trains running into each other. Though I'm sure they they can overcome the time change in our more modern time.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"Daylight time" is for torture.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)There is a sharp increase I heart attacks with the time switch
we can do it
(12,194 posts)groundloop
(11,523 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)we set our clocks ahead when this goes into effect?
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)great question, will be interesting to see how this experiment plays out.
ChazII
(6,206 posts)us onto the plan.
Eugene
(61,948 posts)Boston suburb, 1974. The idea is logical, but there are trade-offs.
hadEnuf
(2,212 posts)Didn't work out too well. Kids going to school in the pitch dark, more pedestrian accidents.
On edit: It was still Nixon in early 1974.
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,328 posts)(give or take) and not noon (no gnomon), forever.
Unpopular take: they should make standard time permanent instead of daylight saving time.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)I think.
marie999
(3,334 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,328 posts)Local noon would be 1 p.m. and local midnight would be 1 a.m. Like summer in most areas.
Weird that Sinema is in favor of this, as her state would either have to adopt DST or be an outlier.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,987 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,755 posts)Just pointless grandstanding.
Is daylight savings time such an important issue? It's not like we have a pandemic, a broken immigration system, gas price collusion and fixing, an imbalanced tax system, a multi-tiered justice system for different people, police misconduct, a teacher shortage, climate change, and a psychopath launching wars that seems intent on causing WW3 to deal with.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)at least where I am in western end of Eastern time zone. It's pitch dark again now under DST at 7am when school buses are running and many workers (as I used to be) have to drive to work in the dark. Never has made sense to me that parents and kids have to get up so early in the dark here and then be let off school so early at 2 and 3 pm.
In my 30 years on a job where I had to be there at 7 am, I always found it exhausting to change to DST each spring and so enjoyable and relaxing when Standard Time resumed each fall.
But being retired, I am not personally bothered and I understand why the millions of East Coasters further east in our time zone want more daylight in the evenings.
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)Link to tweet
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Ptah
(33,037 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)honest.abe
(8,685 posts)I am all for that. I hate changing time twice a year.
Chakaconcarne
(2,462 posts)Sounds good, but hopefully it's been thought through.
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)Eugene
(61,948 posts)Parts of Indiana also don't use DST.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)... and ...
GenThePerservering
(1,838 posts)I guess it doesn't matter - I ended up commuting in the dark in the winter when the sun rose at 8:00 so it's always dark then, anyway. But I WANT THAT HOUR BACK, FIRST!
paleotn
(17,960 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)adjust for daylight savings too, remember to deprogram them all, etc. One time, hopefully.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)If anything, they should make standard time permanent.
From: https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/
And yet the early-morning darkness quickly proved dangerous for children: A 6-year-old Alexandria girl was struck by a car on her way to Polk Elementary School on January 7; the accident broke her leg. Two Prince Georges County students were hurt in February. In the weeks after the change, eight Florida kids were killed in traffic accidents. Floridas governor, Reubin Askew, asked for Congress to repeal the measure. Its time to recognize that we may well have made a mistake, US Senator Dick Clark of Iowa said during a speech in Congress on January 28, 1974. In the Washington area, some schools delayed their start times until the sun caught up with the clock.
The factual picture was a bit more complicated. The National Safety Council reported in February that pre-sunrise fatalities had risen to 20 from 18 the year before. In July, Roger Sant, then an assistant administrator-designate for the Federal Energy Administration, wrote a letter to the Post that noted a 1 percent energy saving achieved by going to DST equated to 20,000-30,000 tons of coal not being burned each day. Further, he wrote, accidents had fallen in the afternoons.
By August, though, as the Watergate scandal caused the Nixon administration to crumble, the country was ready to move on from its clock experiments. While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported. Seven days after President Nixon resigned, US Senator Bob Dole of Kansas introduced an amendment in August that would end the DST experiment. It passed. A similar bill passed the House. In late September, the full Congress passed a bill that would restore standard time on October 27. President Ford signed it on October 5. Energy savings, a House panel noted, must be balanced against a majority of the publics distaste for the observance of Daylight Saving Time.