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Related: About this forumPermanent daylight saving bill gets bipartisan push in Congress - MSNBC Reports
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has renewed the bipartisan push to make daylight saving time permanent across the country. NBCs Julie Tsirkin reports some experts say this could lead to less seasonal depression, more productivity and less crime in the evening hours. - Aired on 03/03/2023.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,748 posts)fuck him for everything else.
Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,748 posts)He must really hate having to be associated with an asshole like Rubio to get this done
Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)Meadowoak
(6,064 posts)elleng
(135,477 posts)Sun, Nov 5, 2023 2:00 AM
LisaM
(28,438 posts)I like it the way it is. I hate dark mornings.
Cha
(304,374 posts)on the East Coast and I like it when there's only 5 hours difference.
In Hawaii our hours never change.
I hear you on the Dark mornings.
Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)My previous job was providing the TV listings for the newspapers - which was nationwide. And it drove us nutz during the time change since it's not only Hawaii which doesn't change, but certain others areas - in Arizona and parts of Michigan, I think - and it was damn confusing! I'm all for making Daylight Savings Time permanent, too!
OnDoutside
(20,632 posts)MagaSmash
(7,838 posts)central scrutinizer
(12,407 posts)SheltieLover
(59,222 posts)Kudos to Whitehouse for having a strong stomach!
tornado34jh
(1,256 posts)Keep it on standard time throughout the year. Most countries don't change clocks, and the further north in latitude you go, the less it makes sense to have DST. Here in Lakeland, without DST during the summer solstice, the sun would set at around 7:30 pm EST, and it still wouldn't get really dark until just after 8 pm.
Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)I have some night blindness and I have driving in the dark, plus it's depressing!
tornado34jh
(1,256 posts)When it is DST, it is the same time as Puerto Rico, and it doesn't really match the solar time. Puerto Rico is 10-15 degrees further east in longitude than in Florida, and is in the Atlantic time zone (1 hour ahead).
Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)tornado34jh
(1,256 posts)As soon as you get to New Brunswick in Canada, it is 1 hour ahead, but Maine is further east than any other state in the continental US yet still uses Eastern Time. In some parts, it is so far east, that if you were to sail/fly south along the line of longitude until you reached land, you wouldn't see any land until you reached Puerto Rico. So again, Maine really would be the only state that I could see have an argument for wanting to switch to Atlantic Standard Time Zone (i.e. have permanent DST)
friend of a friend
(367 posts)Hassler
(3,594 posts)Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)An odd duo, certainly, but hoping that this works!
republianmushroom
(17,175 posts)tornado34jh
(1,256 posts)Instead of doing DST, keep in standard time throughout the whole year just like Hawaii and most of Arizona does.