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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.
I don't care if it's DST or standard, just quit changing the damn thing twice a year. Myself, I prefer it getting darker later, whichever one that is. But I don't care enough to change my damned sleep cycle twice a year.
Trump says something that isn't completely idiotic!
I bet he asked it be named, "Trump Standard Time". And maybe "Time Force" the second option.
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If you know this president then it's that he flip-flops when the pressure is on. As soon as a Republican objects he will change his position. Count on it.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Thoose advocating year round DST don't remember the disaster in the mid-70s. The country switched to year round DST for two years. It was quickly killed for many reasons. Scvhool children going to class in the dark was one, another was that people in cold country discovered that an extra hour of sun in the evening was of no benefit, but darkness until 8:320 or 9 was a pain.
I hope rational heads will prevail on this, at a minimum keep the current system, or better yet, kill DST altogether.
Look I get it - Winter is dark up north. And the sun comes up really early in the summer (I have daylight from 5ish AM to almost 10pm where I live). Fireworks don't start until 9:30.
But I too hate the 1 hour forward/back. It's miserable. Why not get the benefits of both and pick the middle.
FOX mistakenly probably gave him the idea with the yearly bitching that losing an hour causes; they'll set him straight on if he gets serious... unless they poll it gains him a few points... They've still got to win over the smarter portion of the below average IQ voters.
Stupid or Evil. Ignorance of him is no longer an excuse.
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Trump says many things that are not idiotic.
Citation needed.
I have listened to him speak, and read many of his tweets. This is sufficient for me to know without a shred of doubt, that he is a moron.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
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".
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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
I swear to GOD. Kids fuck everything up.
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.
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For those who advocate "permanent DST", let's apply a little terminology. "DST" is a term that applies to the practice of changing the clock to something other than your actual time zone. It's not an actual time zone like EST or PST. If DST is made permanent, you're not in "DST" anymore, because the term is then meaningless. Rather, you're in the next time zone to the east of you.
So let's call a spade a spade here. If your standard time zone is PST and you advocate "permanent DST", what you really want is to switch from Pacific Time to Mountain Time -- even though you live in San Francisco. If you live in Texas and like the idea of "permanent DST", what you really want is to switch from Central Time to Eastern Time -- even though you live in the middle of the damn country. And so on.
Now we can finally see that the idea of "permanent DST" is ridiculous, confusing, and short-sighted. To be clear, if the stupid practice of changing the clocks was never invented in the first place, we would have all gone about our lives happily ever after, and never gave a second thought to it. But because we spent a few decades clinging to this stupid practice, now we have a debate. I say get over it, accept the time zone you live in, and wake up an hour early if you truly want to. Nobody is preventing you from doing that.
You can't make a rope longer by cutting a foot off one end and attaching it to the other. "Permanent DST" is identical to getting up 1 hour earlier. Just leave how we indicate time alone so the sun is (roughly) at its greatest height on the ecliptic at noon in any given time zone instead of playing a stupid shell game that doesn't do anything but mess up astronomical time.
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There's an easy solution to this. It's called, "getting up an hour earlier".
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Have you talked to a kid lately? They're idiots. They need more school, not less.
Why can't the individual States decide?
Because that's the way the laws were written a few decades back when they implemented the current system. Not saying it is good or bad, just that that's what happened. Canada evidently wrote their laws differently which is neither better nor worse - just a different solution to the same problem. For whatever reason the federal law in the US allows states to opt out of DST permanently but does not permit opting in permanently. Not sure why but that's what happened. Since this is a federal law it requires congress to change it.
There is evidently a workaround that at least one state is considering which is to move their time zone to the next one over (which states evidently can do) and then opt out of DST. Same effect on a technicality in the law.
For the record I'm STRONGLY in favor of DST all year round. More daylight in the evening is a good thing.
How is it that a moron beat out so many other people for the presidency?
He's a moron with a message other morons can relate to. And most of the time he's a really affable guy. He's eminently electable. Totally incompetent. But perfectly electable.