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.

It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Doesn’t the rest of the world observe standard time? Why would we be permanently out of step with the rest of the world?

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Actually, all "standard" time means is that the time is somewhat related to the sun being directly overhead at noon. I say "somewhat" because once you carve the world up into zones like that, the sun will never be directly overhead at noon except maybe in the middle of the zone.

    Did you know China has only one time zone? The entire huge country runs on Beijing time. The far west of the country sometimes doesn't see a sunrise until 10 AM.

    So, there is really nothing "standard" about Standard Time at all.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I would like to see the world finally move to Swatch Internet Time and resolve all this silliness once and for all.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Because it's a solution that works?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    Horses were a transport solution that worked.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (3 children)

    And the fossil fuel industry is a solution that is proving to cause a myriad of problems. What a world.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    You want to go back to horses?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    As someone who works with timezones as a developer it doesnt really matter I don't think. Timezone are already kind of a mess of a concept and honestly I just want it tp stop changing, I don't really care which way.

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