Daylight Saving time might become permanent -- this year!

Holy crap! The Senate actually did something both useful & good!!!

Daylight Savings Time could be all year in Michigan under bill passed by US Senate

The Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which, if approved by the House and signed by the president, would make Daylight SavingT time permanent. So, in November 2023, Daylight Savings Time would be the new Standard Time.

"Pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come," Reuters reported Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who introduced the proposal, said. "I know this is not the most important issue confronting America, but it's one of those issues where there's a lot of agreement."

Everybody hates changing their clocks twice a year -- I've literally never met anybody who doesn't. Not only is it inconvenient, but it messes up our natural body rhythms for about a week after each change. Statistics prove that auto accidents and heart attacks spike right after time changes.

Hopefully the House can take a break from the Biden investigations long enough to pass this, and then we can toss this terrible idea into the dumpster of history.

a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

I hope so, it really hit me today, I was sooo exhausted this morning.
Let’s get rid of this nonsense!

a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

so how about not changing it at all?

What is accomplished by going to permanent day light savings time?

Talk about useless legislation...

a reply to: seagull
It'll still mean that we can stop effing around with our clocks. That's a solid win in my book.

a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

Daylight Savings may turn out to be the only savings any of us have left.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

Daylight Savings may turn out to be the only savings any of us have left.

GOT EEEEM!
2nd

a reply to: seagull

Yes, they keep saying this every time the time changes. Getting tired or come ons. Make up their minds already. Chit or get off the pot.

Just DO IT already.

it's proven that more Heart attacks and strokes happen within a few days of the time change .

What does it save or change? Nothing but messing us up.

The natives I met growing around here had a saying I loved:

Only the white man will cut a foot of blanket off the top of the blanket and sew it to the bottom, to make the blanket longer.

originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

so how about not changing it at all?

What is accomplished by going to permanent day light savings time?

Talk about useless legislation...

It needs to be kept on Daylight Savings permanently.
Longer sunlight in the afternoon, summer and winter.
I couldn’t deal with it getting dark at 7-7:30PM in the summertime if it stayed on Standard time permanently.
It will be darker longer in the mornings but who cares?
I really wish they would have done this years ago when I was a mail carrier for the USPS, winter time sucked when it got dark at 4:45PM and you had to walk in the dark delivering the mail until 6 or 7.
Very few people put their outside lights on that early.

IMVHO we should not ever, ever move the clocks.
I really, really, REALLY am not a fan of DST!!!!!!
I hate it being daylight at 9PM!

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

I hate it being daylight at 9PM!

You must be early to bed, early to rise.
I love it staying light out later in the summer, we are always doing something in the backyard.
It would really screw me up if it got dark at 7 in the summer.

a reply to: RazorV66

But it wouldn't...it would be 8-8:30.
And anyway, too many bugs in the evening/night.

My circadian clock really does not like the BS clock changes. It's not about sleep so much as being able to wind down.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Around here you still have twilight at 10pm for part of the summer. In fact sunset will be about 8pm on April 1 due to Springing forward and we are nowhere near the Summer Solstice yet.

originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
Holy crap! The Senate actually did something both useful & good!!!

I was all set to be totally pissed when I saw the words "in MICHIGAN", until I read the article and it would indeed apply to the US in general, so... what was up with adding 'in Michigan'???

ETA: yay!!! I've only been waiting for this to happen ever since I was old enough to notice when the clocks had to be changed...

So - this was passed by the Senate? And only needs to be passed by the House?

ETA again: and it passed in the Senate unanimously, so, if it passes the House by a large enough margin, which I think it should, it could even survive a veto by Jill.

it's been this way in my country. I enjoy the singular time, though i miss my extra hour of sleep

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
IMVHO we should not ever, ever move the clocks.
I really, really, REALLY am not a fan of DST!!!!!!
I hate it being daylight at 9PM!

Amen.

originally posted by: theatreboy

The natives I met growing around here had a saying I loved:

Only the white man will cut a foot of blanket off the top of the blanket and sew it to the bottom, to make the blanket longer.

Did they really, or is that just as made up as Chief Seattle seeing the buffalo? Nobody HAS EVER SAID that Daylight Savings would make the day longer. What they SAID is that it would shift the daylight hours to give more light in the evening. Which it does. And what this change will do if it goes through is BREAK very single automated thermostat in the country that has the time change built in. Not to mention a lot of cars and other machinery. I guarantee you if this goes through there will be millions of people bitching when they finally figure out what all this means.

I hope we get the time thing once and for all, tired of fixing the time twice a year

originally posted by: schuyler

originally posted by: theatreboy

The natives I met growing around here had a saying I loved:

Only the white man will cut a foot of blanket off the top of the blanket and sew it to the bottom, to make the blanket longer.

Did they really, or is that just as made up as Chief Seattle seeing the buffalo? Nobody HAS EVER SAID that Daylight Savings would make the day longer. What they SAID is that it would shift the daylight hours to give more light in the evening. Which it does. And what this change will do if it goes through is BREAK very single automated thermostat in the country that has the time change built in. Not to mention a lot of cars and other machinery. I guarantee you if this goes through there will be millions of people bitching when they finally figure out what all this means.

Great thoughts at the end of your post, unintended consequences.

As to the question about the saying,, yes, they have said that. It is said for many other things, also. It is a diss to the white man, but I like it.