Permanent Daylight Saving Time

[eddiememphis]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rub...heads-to-house

Marco Rubio introduced a bill to eliminate the bi-annual time change.

"Studies have shown many benefits of a year-round Daylight Saving Time, which is why the Florida legislature voted to make it permanent in 2018. I'm proud to reintroduce this bipartisan bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, and give our nation's families more stability throughout the year."

Family stability, huh?

I guess his "studies" didn't ask anyone in the northern states about having an issue with it not getting light until 9am.

I think he should consult a "study" about the governmental debt spending and its effect on long term fiscal stability of a nation.

But why bother with that triviality when there are more important issues to deal with?

[ray1970]

If I understand you correctly you are against this?

Personally, I want all of the daylight I can get after work year round. In the winter months it is dark when I leave for work and dark when I come home from work. If they wouldn?t jack with the clocks at least there might be a little daylight left after work in the winter. Also, the hour of sleep they just took from me has my biological clock all out of whack. Switching the clocks twice a year over my lifetime is probably going to take years off my life.

[.455_Hunter]

I agree about there being more benefit to it staying lighter in the evening than lighter in the morning.

[10x]

No need for switching clocks twice a year. Daylight savings all year is fine by me.

[Delfuego]

If I understand you correctly you are against this?

I think he is against everything. Debbie-Downer comes to mind...

I survived no DST for a few years, even liked it. But you guys/gals know I'm a little touched.

[BladesNBarrels]

Been there, done that in 1974.
The Senate has already passed it again with unanimous vote.
Interesting how history keeps repeating itself.

1973 to 1975: Year-round experiment
During the 1973 oil embargo by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), in an effort to conserve fuel, Congress enacted a trial period of year-round DST (P.L. 93-182), beginning January 6, 1974, and ending April 27, 1975.
The trial was hotly debated.
Those in favor pointed to increased daylight hours in the summer evening: more time for recreation, reduced lighting and heating demands, reduced crime, and reduced automobile accidents.
The opposition was concerned about children leaving for school in the dark and the construction industry was concerned about morning accidents.
The act was amended in October 1974 (P.L. 93-434) to return to standard time for four months, beginning October 27, 1974, and ending February 23, 1975, when DST resumed.
When the trial ended in October 1975, the country returned to observing summer DST (with the aforementioned exceptions)

[BPTactical]

If I understand you correctly you are against this?

Personally, I want all of the daylight I can get after work year round. In the winter months it is dark when I leave for work and dark when I come home from work. If they wouldn?t jack with the clocks at least there might be a little daylight left after work in the winter. Also, the hour of sleep they just took from me has my biological clock all out of whack. Switching the clocks twice a year over my lifetime is probably going to take years off my life.

Agree 100%
I always enjoy the additional light after I get off of work. I would much rather see the swing this way instead of the other way i.e Standard time that to my understanding the Colorado Legislature is trying to make a ballot initiative. Stupid Dems.
I would not care for sunrise at 0430 and sundown at 1930 on June 21.

As far as the annual time changes, never really bugged me much. Yeah a couple days afterward were an adjustment but I also looked at it as a rite of passage of the changing seasons.

[FoxtArt]

I am only STRONGLY opposed to year-round standard time. Sounds like many of the dems in our legislature are under the impression that daylight savings time is in the winter, when we lose that extra hour! BOOO.

A common misperception. Yeah... the kids thing may be a valid argument. Maybe more flexibility in workplaces/school would be a better solution. Unsafe to do roadwork at 8am in the middle of winter? Well then, start at 9am... I'll take my $150,000 consultancy fee, thank you Colorado.

[BPTactical]

Most of the roadwork is done at night now anyway.

[Rooskibar03]

Im ok with it so long as we can move AZ out of Pacific time zone and move to Mountain. :-)