President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
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I’m fine with that, but I think we should settle on Daylight Savings time. You know, when time is an hour ahead of what it is now.
I support standard time more, the 12 o clock at the center of the timezone should be noon, not having noon at 1PM, and day lengths are better on average without. DST makes it better, but only for sunset times, it makes the mornings drastically worse and I think employers and schools should just change their hours if they care so much about sunlight when they leave.
Instead of squawking over which to have, how about we all just uze Zulu time and eliminate the timezone confusion as well?
Then you will have different work hours everywhere. Chaos.
Or you would need to force a lot of people to work at strange hours.How is that chaos?
Sunrised in NY and CA at 7 am today in their respective time
They are 3 hours apart in time zones.
So if you wanted everyone to use same clock and for the sun to rise at 7am in NY. That would mean the sun would rise at 4am in CA.
The sun would set at 1:30pm in CA
Someone currently working a 9-5pm. It would become a 6-2pm job.
How is that not going to cause chaos?
Thats how many jobs already are. Jobs ending at 2pm in California because the majority of their market is already gone for the day. There is nothing chaotic about it at all. They are just numbers. We are open from 9-17. Hours posted, that’s when they are open. In New York when someone asks what time they are open the answer is 9-17, in Japan, it’s 9-17. No matter where you are in the world, look at your watch/clock/phone I should be able to say huh, it’s 11, they are open… I’ll give them a call. 0 chaos. No asking what time zone, no asking if it’s 11am or pm, just 9-17. Always the same for anyone who wants to do business with that business.
Sidenote, think about how much cooler new years would be. Everyone on the planet moving to a new year at the same time. Not, well Terry is in Texas so it won’t be for another hour there.
It’s not just numbers: there’s an even more significant factor: insolation. It would be much more uneven for different places and sunlight affects our psychic and physiology.
Broken clock.
A broken clock can be right three times a day, if it breaks between 2AM and 3AM on the day of the DST change…
Or more often, if it runs backwards. Far less often if it runs fast or slow.
Broken record.
The Sunlight Protection Act has been put up several times and passed by the Senate as recently as 2022. It sits in a committee at this time. I’m sure trump will take credit if it works its way through.
Why hasn’t it passed the house if Republicans supported it in the Senate? Strange
Well I hope it does make it through, despite bronzer boy taking credit for it.
Finally something I can support
Just trying to distract the public from any number of his fucked up shit
I’m for permanent daylight. Not a morning person so i hate the sun coming up so early. The mornings should be dark and gloomy (because I have to go to work, work sucks) plus the added benefit of actually having some light when you get off work. The sun going down right when I’m finally off is kind of insulting and depressing.
Getting anyone to come to an agreement on this will be impossible since its based on preference.
Aren’t they doing the opposite though, they are doing no light when you get off work?
I’m definitely with you though, having it dark outside when I’m done work for the day sucks, even when working from home.
That’s why you base it on science and will you look at that, regular time is better, who would have thought?
I wonder how long until some special interest group like airlines come along and bribe him to change his mind, because it would be expensive for them to update their systems
Honestly I’d rather have the switch than permanent daylight.
Permanent Daylight would suuuuuck in the winter. You’d be at school or work for hours before you see the sun. I’d prefer to be on permanent standard time and just have the sun wake me up earlier in the summertime. I don’t need a 9 pm sunset.
Suck in winter, and half of spring and fall.
As a programmer, software and operating system enthusiast that keeps up with time zone rule changes to keep legacy operating systems updated, I absolutely hate whenever they fuck with the time zone rules.
All the devices out there that are pre-programmed to change the daylight savings time automatically will need to be updated to continue working correctly, or some may have to be manually corrected twice a year.
If it counts for anything though, modern operating systems and devices would end up getting the appropriate updates from their relevant update servers, and phones will just get their time from the cell towers.
When you get down to it though, it doesn’t make the days any longer or shorter, it’s just the numbers we assign to the clock. The sun is still gonna rise and set just like it always has, longer days in the summer and shorter days in the winter.
Only now the sun is gonna come up at a time when most people are awake and not set on your way home to work. I live on the western edge of a time zone and daylight savings time means the sun rises around 8 and sets at 5. That means the sun is up while i am at work, and i get of work just in time to watch a million deer try to cross the road on my way home. And I’m not even as far north as a lot of other people in the US. It’s garbage
There’s no law forcing employers to set their work hours fixed all year long, they could just as well change their own working hours based on the season and when the sun rises/sets.
That seems more or less the common sense approach if they are gonna do away with daylight savings time. But that would be too much like right, I bet most employers would be like fuck that.
Were in normal time right now and the sun sets at 4:00. You want permanent DST.
Lot of down votes for a fact. Lemmings are wild.
They say they want the sun up sooner in the morning, so they want normal time
They also say they want it to not set on their way home from work, so do they?
Read again
“home TO work”
They want the sun up in the morning before they go to work.
on your way home
Read again “on your way home”
Its insanely unclear but this context should let you know what they meant
and i get of work just in time to watch a million deer try to cross the road on my way home
sounds like they want a lighter commute home still.
Sounds like they want the day to last longer all year, solution is to move south
Or employers could just move their work schedules to 8-4 instead of 9-5. That’s all that daylight savings is actually doing.
Yeah and they could pay us living wages too, or at least stop firing people then making everyone else take their workload with no extra pay. They wont do any of that though. And a congress that can barely pass a budget wont help us, they’ll axe DST and never do anything about it again. Plus if you have kids Im telling you right now the time they start school will not be changing either.
don’t states decide this? granted I would love to go the reverse and daylight savings all the time as I prefer the light later.
The US tried full DST under Nixon and it didn’t last through the first winter.
yeah I don’t get the think of the children thing. just have the school day shifted over if its such a concern.
I had never heard of this before, very interesting.
trump finds loophole that by turning back the clock one hour, every hour, he can legally freeze the time and bypass term limits.
I mean, if the time never legally reaches Jan 20, 2029, then he is still legally president
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