Regarding day light saving time You write “many grumpy kids and adults” well I think you missed the mark. The real grumpy group is lead by my dog Baxter. I have extended conversations with him every year about having to move his dinner time because of government regulation but he is unmoved by my arguments.
The same complaints surface every spring. Year-round "standard" time has been tried in the past and people hated it. In 1974 "the country was ready to go back to the old times. Public support for the extended daylight saving time had plummeted to 42 percent, according to NORC. In August, the same month Nixon resigned over Watergate, the Senate voted to repeal the law. The House passed a similar measure soon after.
On Oct. 5, President Gerald Ford signed it, and three weeks later, Americans rolled back their clocks. The semiannual routine returned and has continued ever since."
People have never liked switching back and forth to daylight saving time. Changing the clocks was first used to save energy during WWI, then discontinued until WWII, then discontinued again until the energy crisis in the 70's, and then we stuck with it. However, even if DST did save energy (which I doubt, because people are going to be awake and needing light the same amount of time in all seasons), lighting is such a small portion of our energy use now, thanks to more efficient LED lights, that DST is no longer useful for that purpose.
So not only aren't we saving significant amounts of energy, but it's well documented that switching clocks has negative health effects, so clearly we should stop.
The two states that refuse to switch clocks stay on standard time, as did Indiana, which decided to switch clocks after the state's refusal was highlighted on an episode of West Wing. Your article shows what happened when we tried year round DST, and it was awful. Clearly, humans prefer standard time. So why in the heck are politicians proposing permanent DST instead of permanent standard time???!!!
Time change legislation is in the pipeline. Here is the money quote. More at the link.
"The Sunshine Protection Act, reintroduced in early 2023 after the House declined to take it up a year earlier, would move standard time forward by one hour. If passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden, it would make daylight saving time permanent across the country. States would have the option of remaining on current standard time, but no state would be allowed to shift from one kind of time to the other during the course of a year — they would have one or the other for all 12 months."
Permanent time is fine with me, and permanent Standard time would be better than permanent DST. As for the politicians, I think they react to the public more than anything. And for some reason the bitching about time changes appears worse in the Spring than in the Winter. Maybe it's because losing an hour makes people grumpy.
My activist years are long gone but you seem full of energy. You get my support. Go for it!!
[Edit:] I changed my mind. I'll go with the flow.
➤ Time changes in 70 countries around the world, including all the EU and most others. China, Japan, India and most countries near the equator don't fall back or jump ahead. In much of Asia and South America, the Daylight Saving Time shift was adopted, but then abandoned. It has never been observed in most of Africa.
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We'll see if the House GOP is really interested in it or not.
Regarding day light saving time You write “many grumpy kids and adults” well I think you missed the mark. The real grumpy group is lead by my dog Baxter. I have extended conversations with him every year about having to move his dinner time because of government regulation but he is unmoved by my arguments.
Glad we've solved all of the nation's problems which allows us now to deal with the unspeakable trauma of moving our clocks twice a year.
The same complaints surface every spring. Year-round "standard" time has been tried in the past and people hated it. In 1974 "the country was ready to go back to the old times. Public support for the extended daylight saving time had plummeted to 42 percent, according to NORC. In August, the same month Nixon resigned over Watergate, the Senate voted to repeal the law. The House passed a similar measure soon after.
On Oct. 5, President Gerald Ford signed it, and three weeks later, Americans rolled back their clocks. The semiannual routine returned and has continued ever since."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/18/daylight-saving-seventies-history/
People have never liked switching back and forth to daylight saving time. Changing the clocks was first used to save energy during WWI, then discontinued until WWII, then discontinued again until the energy crisis in the 70's, and then we stuck with it. However, even if DST did save energy (which I doubt, because people are going to be awake and needing light the same amount of time in all seasons), lighting is such a small portion of our energy use now, thanks to more efficient LED lights, that DST is no longer useful for that purpose.
https://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html#:~:text='An%20Act%20to%20preserve%20daylight,begin%20on%20March%2031%2C%201918.
So not only aren't we saving significant amounts of energy, but it's well documented that switching clocks has negative health effects, so clearly we should stop.
https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/daylight-savings-time-your-health
The two states that refuse to switch clocks stay on standard time, as did Indiana, which decided to switch clocks after the state's refusal was highlighted on an episode of West Wing. Your article shows what happened when we tried year round DST, and it was awful. Clearly, humans prefer standard time. So why in the heck are politicians proposing permanent DST instead of permanent standard time???!!!
Time change legislation is in the pipeline. Here is the money quote. More at the link.
"The Sunshine Protection Act, reintroduced in early 2023 after the House declined to take it up a year earlier, would move standard time forward by one hour. If passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden, it would make daylight saving time permanent across the country. States would have the option of remaining on current standard time, but no state would be allowed to shift from one kind of time to the other during the course of a year — they would have one or the other for all 12 months."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-02/what-year-round-daylight-saving-time-would-mean-quicktake
Who knows?
Permanent time is fine with me, and permanent Standard time would be better than permanent DST. As for the politicians, I think they react to the public more than anything. And for some reason the bitching about time changes appears worse in the Spring than in the Winter. Maybe it's because losing an hour makes people grumpy.
My activist years are long gone but you seem full of energy. You get my support. Go for it!!
[Edit:] I changed my mind. I'll go with the flow.
➤ Time changes in 70 countries around the world, including all the EU and most others. China, Japan, India and most countries near the equator don't fall back or jump ahead. In much of Asia and South America, the Daylight Saving Time shift was adopted, but then abandoned. It has never been observed in most of Africa.
Now we know.
Seriously? The House Ethics committee is trying to bring AOC down over Met Gala tickets?