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Silent3

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16. That's my preference!

Mon Mar 21, 2022, 04:15 PM

Mar 2022

Besides intellectual objections to DST being the new standard time (which I don't expect all those fans of a (fake) extra hour of daylight to get or care about), permanent DST was tried once before in the 70s. Lots of parents were suddenly very unhappy about their kids going to school in the dark in the winter.

It'll happen again, and people will (stupidly) be surprised and unhappy about it -- as if they couldn't have seen it coming.

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Daylight saving change faces trouble in House [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP

Important Legislation Getting Done SoCalDavidS Mar 2022 #1

Leave it alone. I'd rather "adjust" for a day or two in lieu of kids in the dark at the bus stop NightWatcher Mar 2022 #2

We didn't have the research that says that losing an hour of sleep... Spider Jerusalem Mar 2022 #3

If a one hour change is going to give you a heart attack it was going to happen anyway Blues Heron Mar 2022 #4

No foolin'. cloudbase Mar 2022 #13

People have heart attacks shoveling snow, too Mariana Mar 2022 #15

Good Question! ProfessorGAC Mar 2022 #33

Yeah fuck 'em lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #27

Yeah, fuck science! Act_of_Reparation Mar 2022 #46

lol! Blues Heron Mar 2022 #47

Lots of things are different today than they were in 1974. Mariana Mar 2022 #9

Where do you live? maxsolomon Mar 2022 #11

east west matters too dsc Mar 2022 #23

It would be easier to just have school start an hour later. Meadowoak Mar 2022 #18

Um... that's what happens on Standard Time maxsolomon Mar 2022 #66

yep jcgoldie Mar 2022 #68

Wouldn't it be easier to change school and work schedules than clocks? hunter Mar 2022 #49

Sleep experts say Senate has it wrong: Standard time, not daylight saving, should be permanent Pinback Mar 2022 #5

No Freddie Mar 2022 #8

School can start an hour later. Meadowoak Mar 2022 #19

I'm not sure why they're wasting time on this. BlueTsunami2018 Mar 2022 #6

I reckon is a boost canetoad Mar 2022 #34

Good. I'd rather just dump DST and stay on standard time... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #7

They are going to change it BEFORE we get an hour back?!?! underpants Mar 2022 #10

IDK what "they" are going to do... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #14

Bingo. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #26

It doesn't cause heart attacks Zeitghost Mar 2022 #67

That's my preference! Silent3 Mar 2022 #16

I was in 3rd grade back in 73. My school district had us start an hour later Meadowoak Mar 2022 #20

I don't know why so many people think this is an impossible thing to do. nt. Mariana Mar 2022 #21

The whole idea (flawed though it might be) of DST is that it's supposedly easier... Silent3 Mar 2022 #25

No. Celerity Mar 2022 #38

Your early winter midday is about 11:50am; permanent DST would make it 12:50pm muriel_volestrangler Mar 2022 #53

Losing an hour of sunlight in the middle of the day is far worse than Celerity Mar 2022 #55

The point is that 9:45 is closer to the middle of the day than 14:46 is muriel_volestrangler Mar 2022 #56

there are far more people out and about in the early afternoon than the morning Celerity Mar 2022 #57

This is the first real chance we've had to stick to one time kcr Mar 2022 #62

The House could easily modify the bill to make it permanent standard time muriel_volestrangler Mar 2022 #64

Jayapal's gotten mixed reactions from this constituent. maxsolomon Mar 2022 #12

Dang, I love my 8:00PM - 8:30PM Sunsets on DLS! ... electric_blue68 Mar 2022 #17

I am 100% with you. Screw it getting dark early. nt Quixote1818 Mar 2022 #31

GMT minus KentuckyWoman Mar 2022 #22

I should think so. The whole idea is insane. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #24

The bill passed unanimously in the Senate. Mariana Mar 2022 #44

Sinema and Rubio pulled a procedural trick on the doddering Senators. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #45

good - they have real work to do rurallib Mar 2022 #28

They have time for this, but no time to legalize weed? Emile Mar 2022 #29

It would never make it through the Senate maxsolomon Mar 2022 #41

Bwhaha Emile Mar 2022 #51

OK, you tell me why they don't do anything about it. maxsolomon Mar 2022 #54

Because they are ignorant and willfully stupid! Emile Mar 2022 #61

I don't buy that. maxsolomon Mar 2022 #65

What polls do you believe? Just the ones you agree with? Show me Emile Mar 2022 #69

even if it did, Biden may well veto it, he is not pro-legalisation at all Celerity Mar 2022 #58

If we are going to go to Standard Time all year then I would rather just stick with the time change. Quixote1818 Mar 2022 #30

Try starting to get dark at 1 or 2 PM at times here in Stockholm when we're on ST. Yet, ever since I Celerity Mar 2022 #59

Try starting to get dark at 1 or 2 PM at times here in Stockholm when we're on ST. Yet, ever since I Celerity Mar 2022 #60

Agreed kcr Mar 2022 #63

DEATH TO DST!! Coventina Mar 2022 #32

+1 n/t area51 Mar 2022 #35

NO. You don't have to live with it starting to get dark at 1 or 2 pm in early winter, & the sunrise Celerity Mar 2022 #37

I think that decisions should be made at the local level. Coventina Mar 2022 #39

I do not think that for the US, other than Alaska and the farthest east regions of New England, Celerity Mar 2022 #40

Good. highplainsdem Mar 2022 #36

Changing the clocks is how I show off my technological superiority. ZonkerHarris Mar 2022 #42

Good! liberaltrucker Mar 2022 #43

Wtf. boston bean Mar 2022 #48

Frankly I think we should all run on Universal Time. hunter Mar 2022 #50

Gads. Can't they just mandate Standard Time? Hekate Mar 2022 #52