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Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. made a new push Friday on bipartisan legislation that would make daylight saving permanent.
S. 582, also coined the Sunshine Protection Act, would make daylight saving permanent and add an hour to the day. The Senate unanimously passed the legislation in March 2022, but it has been stalled since.
The bill would allow Arizona and Hawaii, which do not observe daylight saving time, to remain on standard time, as well as American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
On April 20, 2021, Alabama’s Senate unanimously passed bill SB388, which authorized the state to permanently observe daylight saving time once Congress amended federal laws to allow its year-round observation. The state House of Representatives also gave its green light to the bill, passing it 93-1 on May 6, 2021. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill on May 13, 2021.
what do you think about it? Good idea? Bad idea?
originally posted by: TinfoilTophat
I think we should have 4 daylight savings time days per year.
One 30 minute interval change for every equinox.
Joking aside. Time is a strange thing and it's not fundamentally real. Timezones weren't even a thing until the late 1800's. It's because the world is becoming more connected.
When are we?
We could nip the problem in the bud by converting to UTC. So we all have a basic agreement of when we are but that would be on par as the U.S. abandoning the standard system for metric.
Maybe it won't even matter in a few years, whatever those are. Maybe A.I. will come up with a new system that will bring time as we know it to an end.
Fun times.