Bill to make Daylight Savings permanent

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/69?r=7&s=1

by polm23 • 6 years ago

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scott_joe• 6 years ago

I thought research showed it didn't save money

trvrsalom• 6 years ago

I mean if research also shows that switching times twice a year doesn't save money either, then it probably makes sense to transition for quality of life purposes.

aeternum• 6 years ago

I thought research showed it saves lives, since accidents (car and work-related) are higher after daylight switches.

headalgorithm• 6 years ago

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646867

Wowfunhappy• 6 years ago

And I believe it was also buried by dang, on the logic that bills rarely go anywhere and are thus usually not worthy of a thread.

bananabiscuit2• 6 years ago

The best thing to do would be to keep DST but move “spring forward” to occur at 11am on Monday so that we get to keep the hour of sleep on Sunday and lunchtime comes sooner.

rvense• 6 years ago

Couldn't we just insert/remove an extra five minutes the first Saturday of every month? We'd get the same effect, but without the jump.

dybber2• 6 years ago

Many clocks and watches are still manually set.

bananabiscuit2• 6 years ago

No I don’t want any minutes taken away from my saturdays. Have my hour before lunch instead

dybber2• 6 years ago

Would still give a problem on the following days. It takes several days to change the circadian rhythm.

postalrat• 6 years ago

What does "make daylight savings time permanent" even mean? To stick with daylight savings time all year long and don't adjust for winter and summer?

If so sounds good to me.

cuddlybacon• 6 years ago

It does mean we stop adjusting the clocks twice a year. The question is, do we stick with standard time or daylight savings time.

A lot of the changeovers in NA seem to be leaning towards keeping DST year round. As a Canadian, the idea is certainly appealing. Currently it gets dark about 45 mins before work ends. Having a bit of sunlight when you leave is nice.

But as pointed out below, sticking with DST is probably worse for highschoolers.

MeinBlutIstBlau• 6 years ago

As a upper midwesterner, I wholeheartedly agree. It's just annoying that the moment I get home from work, it's so dark out I can't jog without a reflective vest or headlamp. The morning is fine because it's no different than when you have to wake up early for work.

xyse53• 6 years ago

What I think it /should/ mean is that 13:00 becomes the center of daylight. Who knows what's in that bill through ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I wish we could stick with Noon as the middle of the day and adjust normal work, school, etc schedule around that. But I'd take "permanent daylight saving".

pfranz2• 6 years ago

I believe that's already an option, but few/none have chosen it. Currently, the two legal options federally are no DST or DST half the year. There are a couple states that have passed laws for permanent DST but are waiting on a federal law before it can be enacted.

allanj37• 6 years ago

#RepealStandardTime

zacharytelschow• 6 years ago

If we're going to adjust time, I want one timezone nation wide. Heck, I want that worldwide but let's start with the US first.

sitzkrieg• 6 years ago

worldwide? but what about the sun

22c• 6 years ago

I assume OP means something like "use UTC everywhere". You can still have mid-day, afternoon, morning etc. they just don't rotate around 12PM (unless you're close to the prime meridian).

austhrow743• 6 years ago

Why does the sun need to have anything to do with numerical time?

alblue2• 6 years ago

Swatch tried to do that by creating Swatch Internet Time, which was a time zone less decimal time system. As you can guess, this didn’t end well or take over the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Time zones exist so that (approximately) the sun is overhead at noon. If you ask anyone what time zone the world should operate on, they’ll agree, provided that they use your time zone. Otherwise you could make everyone use GMT/UTC instead, and I can’t see America doing that when most of the country can’t count beyond 12 on a clock.

There are some counties which use a single time zone by dictat, like China, but all that happens is people adjust their working days such that the sun is up at lunchtime, so you don’t gain any advantages by having everyone on the same time zone because now you need to know what individual areas working hours are so you can communicate.

These days more problems are caused by leap seconds, which is the difference between GMT and UTC, and I expect we will get rid of those soon as well.

jml7c5• 6 years ago

What proposals are there for eliminating leap seconds? I don't see how you can get around them without either redefining the second, or putting off a bigger adjustment later.

pfranz2• 6 years ago

This is often posted as a response: https://qntm.org/abolish

I'd actually be curious to hear what a nation wide timezone would solve?

gabrielsroka• 6 years ago

Nit: it's daylight saving [singular].

MR4D• 6 years ago

Ha! Not according to the title of the bill!

"H.R.69 - To make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes.”

jobigoud• 6 years ago

In terms of engineering, permanent DST is pretty stupid. Instead we should use standard time but move one timezone over.

With DST all year long your timezone becomes UTC+N+1, this is needlessly verbose/overcomplicated.

Bill to make Daylight Savings permanent

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