A newly signed Georgia bill . . .

[AndyS]

A newly signed Georgia bill would make daylight-saving time permanent so criminals will have 'one less hour in the evening to commit their crimes,' official says https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/newly-signed-georgia-bill-daylight-155605564.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_11

Yeah, but that extra hour of sun will burn the corn crop . . .

[Buckeyeblue]

1. LOL. You just made Georgians outside of ATL stop and think...

[ck4829]

2. Daylight horror... almost every crime I've been subject to has been in broad daylight

A pet stabbed to death... in daylight
My apartment broken into... during the late afternoon
Hit by a car that kept going... in the late morning
Another time where another apartment was almost broken into... late morning

If they think day means safe and night means crime, of course, because they have a dichotomous mindset, then they are sorely mistaken and another piece to add to the mountain of evidence that Republican legislators are in la-la land where they rejected everyone else's reality and substituted their own.

[Deminpenn]

3. Did they consider the border towns?

Municipalities bordering states who don't make DST permanent will be an hour off. If you live in an all-DST state but work in one that does or visa versa, it will be quite disorienting.

[zaj]

4. I hope that's not a sincere question.

You have empathy for brown skinned people. That's not what's happening here.

[Deminpenn]

6. Huh?

My state recently proposed a law to make DST permanent. My area directly borders two states both of which will continue to change time. There are plenty of people in my area who live in one state and work in the bordering state and visa versa. It would be a hassel to have to remember two different times. Luckily the law the PA legislature is proposing is contingent on other states also keeping year-round DST.

[zaj]

7. Ahh, I thought you meant the Mexican border...

I see what you mean now.

[Sanity Claws]

5. What about the airlines that fly in and out of Atlanta?

Isn't Atlanta a hub for Delta? Won't this wreck havoc and confusion for Delta and its flyers during the months when most of the US is on Standard time, not Daylight Saving time.?

[sir pball]

8. Actually, it is an established fact DST reduces crime.

[R]obbery rates decrease by an average of 51% during the hour of sunset following the shift to DST in the spring. We also find large drops in cases of reported murder (48%) and rape (56%). Effects are largest during the hour of sunset prior to DST (i.e., the hour which was in darkness before but, post-DST, is now light), suggesting changes are due to ambient light rather than other factors such as increased police presence, and we find no changes in crimes where ambient light is unlikely to be a factor.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/research/publications/under-cover-darkness-using-daylight-saving-time-measure-how-ambient-light

There is some debate as to exactly why this is; the "conventional wisdom" is that people just don't commit as much crime during the day, but there's studies working on that.