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Schedule uber in different time zone2/20/2024 But that’s not the same thing as supporting permanent daylight time- some people want permanent standard time. Yes, there are polls that show majorities of respondents want to end semiannual clock shifts. Maybe there was no objection because senators have become convinced of what Rubio claims: That a “huge majority” of Americans want to stay on DST all year. But where’s Gary Peters to save the people of the great state of Michigan from getting plunged into eternal morning darkness? There are a number of large and mid-size metropolitan areas where the sun would not rise until around 9am for weeks on end in the winter.Īnd this gets at one of the mysteries of Tuesday’s Senate action: Why did not even one senator object to the request to agree unanimously on this stupid policy? I kind of get why Marco Rubio likes the idea of permanent daylight saving, since Miami has some of the earliest winter sunrise times in the country. But as you can see from the list, this isn’t just a problem for a few isolated, northern communities near the western border of a time zone. You can find locations where sunrise times would be even more extreme than this, such as 9:33am in Marquette, Michigan. If we had permanent DST, the latest sunrise of the year would be: The problem with permanent DST is simple: it forces a lot more people to wake up in the dark for more of the year. And the reasons people would hate permanent daylight saving time persist. People still like ice cream and hate getting punched in the face. And that’s true, but more things haven’t changed. In the past, when I have pointed this out on Twitter, I have often drawn snarky responses that 1974 was a long time ago and a lot’s changed since then. Republicans, Democrats, northerners, southerners, people at the western edge of time zones and people in normal parts of time zones - their representatives reached near-unanimous agreement that people did not want to endure another winter of this nonsense. This was not a close call people hated year-round daylight saving. Again, let me repeat what that vote was: 383 to 16. The vote margin for repeal in the House of Representatives was 383-16 in August 1974. There was a mass outcry to repeal the law, which Congress did later that same year. And once people realized that - that daylight saving time in January means doing everything in the dark in the morning - they hated it. Unfortunately, daylight saving time does not add daylight to the day, it only shifts the daylight into the afternoon from the morning. In January 1974, the US entered what was supposed to be a two-year “experiment” with permanent daylight saving time. The first thing I want to note is something I’m amazed many participants in this debate don’t seem to know: We have tried this policy before. But apparently a lot of you did not listen, so I’m going to have to explain again why the status quo on time is good and the ideas to change it are bad, in hopes that will stop the House from approving the Senate-passed bill and sending this nonsense to President Biden’s desk. As you may know, I fucking hate this idea, and I kind of hate having to write about it again, because I have said my piece about the matter, repeatedly. As you may have seen, the US Senate agreed by unanimous consent on Tuesday to abolish standard time and keep clocks on daylight saving time all year.
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