In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee ‌voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face ​of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states ​to opt out.

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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Getting rid of this and getting the u.s. to finally do to metric are my two low bar societal dreams before I die

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    getting the u.s. to finally do to metric

    Well, depending on how you measure that, the metric system was adopted in the US federally either 50 or 35 years ago...

    https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/executive-order-12770

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, maybe even 3rd (early 80s) we were learning everything metric. But by the time I was in middle school we were having to relearn everything in standard.

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