House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent | CNN Politics
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The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.
  • Itzz Me@midwest.social
    72·
    10 days ago

    what i don’t get is why the focus is on permanent DST, i thought permanent standard time would be better

    • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      10 days ago

      So much of the country is dark at 5pm on standard time. With the work day centered around 9-5, having some daylight at the end of the day would be nice. I always thought the solution would be making the work day center on 8-4, but work til the sun goes down has been engrained in our society for a long time.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      31·
      9 days ago

      Permanent standard time is objectively better, if anyone bothered to listen to the experts the opinion is clear. Last time we tried permanent dst it didn’t last through the first winter, because people hated it

      Plus it’s been studied, having groggy people driving to work in the dark causes a lot more accidents than driving home in the dark

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 days ago

    I’d rather have no DST than permanent DST, but I think permanent would be better than what we have now.

    How will Arizona work, though? Given that they don’t do DST now, I’m guessing they’ll stay as they are. And they’ll just be the odd ones out in the MST timezone. (Like they already are for part of the year, only they’ll be off by an hour from other MST timezone states all year moving forward. Unless/until they change things, of course.)

    • mercano@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 days ago

      Your preference may depend where you live, east to west, in your time zone, as sun rise / sun set is an hour later in the far west than it is in the far east.