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US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent (www.reuters.com)
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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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[–] 20 points 2 months ago (11 children)

  1. "Allow states to opt out?" Isn't this already something under their control? How is this a federally mandated thing? I mean Arizona already doesn't do it.

  2. if its a federal decision just make the change apply everywhere. No one wants every state doing this differently. Think of the poor programmers.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    On your first question: the current law is that DST is optional, but if a state opts out, they have to be on standard time. The new bill allows them to stay on DST permanently and removes the ability for states to opt-out unless they are already on year-round standard time. So, if this passes, every state in the union will be on either standard time or DST, depending on their status before, with no option to either go back to standard time nor to go back to changing twice a year.

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

    The answer is simple.

    The government shouldn't be telling us what time it is. We should leave that to the private sector. And you should be required to pay for a subscription to know what time it is.

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

    Dude.. time zones can go fuck themselves. I'm a QA and every quarter we deal with some random ass bug that rolls back to time zone issues.

    I need a website like isitdns.com except isittimezone.fu

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

    The only two things programmers hate more than time zones are DNS and SSL

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Yeah timezones are annoying... but just don't schedule anything to happen between 1am and 3am on Sundays and forget about it.

    DNS is also pretty meh to me actually.

    SSL? Holy shit... why the hell are they going to be requiring certs to change every fucking month? WTF is wrong with these people? Bad enough I gotta find a way for business partners to verify their connections still work when we discontinue TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because most of them are probably still using fucking .Net 4.x which requires a line of code to enable newer TLS versions (fucking Microsoft!) but in a couple of years we're going to have to find a way to automate certificate updates every fucking month because everyone's passing security responsibilities to me including the goddamn trusted CAs.

    Yeah, SSL is a trigger word for me.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Great point. From a quick websearch it looks like every state is allowed to exempt itself. The few states that opted out did so right near the creation of the daylight saving time law.

    I think maybe it comes down to inertia and staying in the herd. No state wants to be the first one to stick their neck out and make a change from the rest of the country all still doing the status quo.

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