Holy shit. The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.

[ShazzieB]

138. Because "real" time isn't real.

The correct term is "standard time," and it's only standard time because everyone has agreed to follow it. What's not "real" is arbitrarily switching the time back and forth an hour twice a year, forcing everyone to readjust each time. I think that's what this law is meant to address, and I am all in favor of that. The twice yearly time change is unnatural. It may not bother some people much, but it has a significant negative impact on a lot of us.

In order to do away with the time changes, this bill says that "standard" time will now be fixed at the time previously designated as "daylight savings time." One set of people won't like that, but another set of people wouldn't like having "standard" time all year around. One set of people would rather leave things alone entirely, but another (large, from what I can see) set hates the time changes and really, really wants them to stop.

There's no one ideal solution that will please everyone 100%, but there's also no such thing as "real" time. The whole thing is arbitrary, even though it doesn't necessarily feel like it to us.