Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com)

President Trump on Monday threw his support behind efforts to keep the United States permanently on daylight saving time, which took effect Sunday morning. "Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!" Trump tweeted. The Hill reports: California and several other states are considering measures that would end the biannual clock changes between standard and daylight saving time. Three GOP lawmakers from Florida introduced legislation in Congress this month that would end the November clock change from daylight saving time back to standard time. The measures, introduced by Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott and Rep. Vern Buchanan, would keep the country in daylight saving time, the clock change made in early March that is observed by most states for eight months of the year. Rubio introduced a similar measure in 2018. That bill did not advance in the Senate.

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Re:Just pick a damned time

[Beeftopia]

A more "colorful" history of DST:

At some point in elementary school, many American children learn that Daylight Saving Time was originally intended to give farmers an extra hour of light to work the fields.

That is, in fact, a lie.

Farmers actually hated the practice, because it cut an hour of daylight in the morning, leaving them with an hour less to get goods to market, according to Michael Downing, author of the book Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. In reality, the extra hour of evening daylight was good for one thing: selling products. ...

Specifically we have the candy lobby, the barbecue lobby, and the golf ball lobby to thank for modern American Daylight Saving Time. But we’ll get to that in a second.

And another article, from Smithsonian magazine.

Re:About damned time

[Krishnoid]

And he said 'Saving' instead of 'Savings'. I'm suspicious.

So much for drive-in movies.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

darker later is the way to go.

IMHO Daylight Savings Time was much of what killed the drive in theatres. Come summer, with DST, there wasn't enough time after sunset to attend a double feature and still get home and to bed in time to get up before sunrise and make it to work.

In the summer what we're short of isn't light. It's darkness. If the government must screw around with the clocks twice a year, they should move them BACK in the spring and return them to standard in the fall.

I call it "Night Life Savings Time".

Re:To kill fewer children.

[Anonymous Coward]

You got a source for that claim? This talks about the 1974 experiment. Says it ended before Halloween, and mentions not a word about a spike in car-pedestrian accidents.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-saving-time-went-too-far/ (not Ad Blocker friendly)

But this article says that studies have shown that changing the clock twice a year has actual health risks.
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/experts-to-public-daylight-savings-time-is-a-434m-problem-we-could-easily-fix.html

Re:To kill fewer children.

[mark-t]

Except it doesn't actually save energy. The last study which suggested it does was conducted in the 1970's and was the impetus behind the most recent change to the DST schedule in 1996 which lengthened it by several weeks throughout the year, and while the study predicted a measurable energy savings even for those few weeks, those savings completely failed to materialize, showing very clearly that the energy demands which the study had examined and predicted a savings on were an artifact of how energy was used at the time, and not reflective of how we use energy today. The reason the clocks were not changed back was because of the expense of invoking yet another change to DST. Abolishing it entirely, by comparison, would not produce anywhere nearly as much expense because there are many places that already do not observe DST.

Re:About damned time

[Aighearach]

That's the joke; it is suspicious because it is a common mistake, but he didn't make it. And he makes a lot of grammatical and spelling mistakes.