In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out.
It’s, like, THE STANDARD
Yeah, no clue why everyone’s going DST instead. I think having politicians make science decisions is a really dumb idea.
It’s “standard”, yet only applies 4 months out of 12 a year.
Science?
DST has always been a political decision.
People get cranky when the time is moved forward in the spring. So they write to the politicians around that time. The politicians start talking about doing away with it then. There’s no thought towards “ok we’ll move the clacks back in the fall (nobody’s cranky about that one) and then not change it again.” It’s just “do away with changing the clocks immediately!”
Where in your time zone do you live? I bet you’re way out on the eastern end of whatever zone you’re in, because your complaints don’t seem to match mine at all. The November time change is the one that sucks, because it suddenly and unceremoniously steals the only hour of daylight I have for myself, and holds it hostage for four months.