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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[–] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    It would be nice. I would love to not have to keep two sets of each tool type just because America can't admit Europe did something better. And not just a little better, like, it's embarrassing how difficult SAE is over metric.

    It's probably too late for me. But I dream of a world where my grandchildren only need one socket wrench set.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    If you do enough stuff yourself you already have two sets of tools. And torx bits. And triple squares. And reverse Torx and triple square. And robertsons. And Allen bits.

    And extended versions of all of those. And short versions. And impact versions and the good ones and the garbage ones and sometimes extractor versions if you had a real bad day and went to Harbor Freight three times.

    But never a ten mill when you need one.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Australian here.

    It's been a long time since I encountered a nut or bolt that was unambiguously imperial, but my 13mm socket probably gets more use than it should 😏

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    [–] 40 points 3 months ago

    A distraction it may be, but I'll take a win where I can get one. Idgaf which version of the clock we're going with, I just want it to be consistent

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago

    I don't care which one they lock in, as long as they just fucking pick one and stick to it. It's the changing that's the problem - we all have electric lights ffs.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    This is good ... but the same kind of good like the captain of the Titanic declaring that the kitchens must supply vegetarian meal options to those who request it.

    Yes, a good thing, but really far off from the most urgent issues facing the country, isn't it?

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

    I’m super into this. I’ve been dying for permanent DST for a long time and I really thought they were going to push Standard Time instead.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Permanent DST is more popular as most are evening people

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

    Exactly, the significant majority of people hate the sun going down extra early in winter. The winter is so depressing with so much darkness, we especially need to maximize how much sunlight see in winter

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

    But the bill is just gonna die in the Senate, so don't hold your breath

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    [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Watch Trump veto it because he didn't get his election rigging "SAVE" act passed.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    They'll fuck it up and pick the wrong time, and it will be dark at 4:30 PM for the rest of our lives.

    In 50 years, they'll try to switch to the other time, but Conservatives will fight it because they think they'll lose two hours, and they'll literally threaten a Civil War over two hours, then someone will try to explain that they'll actually GAIN two hours, and they'll say it's a Communist hoax with their two Socialist hours, just handing them out to people who don't deserve them, like the welfare queens just helping themselves to as many hours as the Demon-rats can steal from the billionaires who have more hours than everybody else combined.

    So they'll compromise, and go back to switching times twice a year to keep NOBODY happy, and America can go back to normal.

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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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  • [–] 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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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    How close are they to impeaching pedophiles in office?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    I'm happy to get rid of the change, but once again they ignore scientists and health experts with the choice of daylight time.

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

    Permanant DST was signed into law January 1974 and repealed October 1974. Everyone hated it, it went from 79% approval in December of 1973 to 46% in February of 1974.

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

    Would be better if it was clear they did any research on the subject. Last time this came around it was clear, standard time was better for us. This now just feels like rich people will keep us poors on DST while they get the clock humans get a better night sleep with and still somehow take our money.

    I hate that I can believe something like this.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Why couldn't they do permanent Standard Time? If history of permanent DST legislation prevails, this will be repealed within a year or two. Same as it will be in BC.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    I once found a page that would show you what permanent DST or Standard time would look like in your area, but cannot find it now. Anyone know a link to something like that?

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

    One of very few things that administration has done right

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    In Brazil we made it always standard time (the one good thing bolsonaro did in his life) though I personally would prefer always daylight savings time

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Daylight savings time is being fucking stupid and out of date.

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