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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[–] 10 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Ending the clock change is a great idea. The question becomes, do we want to:

Go the permanent daylight saving route. Be an hour off from the rest of the world adding to the stack of weird and arguably stupid things the USA does different so we can have a bit of light after work instead of questioning why we're working our lives away. Also, drastically increase the number of morning injuries and fatalities, especially among children, as schools will be starting in the dark.

OR

Be sane.

It appears Congress has spoken.

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

    Because of existing time zones aren’t we already different from the rest of the world? You make other good points but the rest of the world comparison seems odd. If anything just picking one is more consistent and safer regardless. I mean if you wanna talk about weird, the entire mainland china is one time zone, China Standard Time.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Why we don't move schools to start later in winter so they start in sunlight

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

    You'd also have to change working hours for parents so they can get their kids ready for school.

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    But then you need to change the working hours for their co-workers who depend on them. Then some of the business partners of the companies that have a large number of employees that changed their working hours.

    Eventually we get right back to where we started. The reason we change the clocks is because we decided that as a society, parts of the world that have a significant angle to the sun (which have a limited amount of daylight in the winter, and an excess amount of daylight in the summer) so we came up with a system to deal with that fact in a fairly organized way. There won't be a good solution to this, but simply changing the clocks twice a year is probably the least worst of all options.

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