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Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com)
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: It seems like we're seeing a sudden outbreak of common sense from one of the most unlikely places. Florida might become the third state -- after Hawaii and Arizona -- to be done with the hassle of changing their clocks twice a year. Yesterday, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Sunshine Protection Act in under one minute, with only two dissenters. The House had already passed it 103-11 last month. Now it has to be signed by Gov. Rick Scott. If Scott passes it, however, it still has to go through Congress before Florida has Daylight Savings Time all year long.
Solar noon/midnight should be as close to 12am/pm as possible.
And privileged urban cyborgs don't care, and wish to elevate their lack of caring into law.
Rural people and the poor benefit from daylight savings, because it saves money on utility bills. Urban people don't give a shit basically because they are rewarded daily for being egocentric sociopaths. A minor annoyance for them, is more important than a major cost to rural people who make the food. Because fundamentally we've trained them to be self-centered fools, and they will never be anything else.
Rural people and the poor benefit from daylight savings, because it saves money on utility bills.
The poor aren't likely to be affected one way or another, and rural people DON'T CARE, because they never paid attention to the hour of the day in the morning. They got up at dawn, whenever it is, as the exact time changes a small amount every day.