#permanent dst

[justinspoliticalcorner]

House passes Trump-backed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent

The legislation now heads to the Senate, where it faces a murky road.

Raquel Coronell Uribe, Kyle Stewart, and Frank Thorp V at NBC News:

The measure, known as the Sunshine Protection Act, passed 308-117. It would put the country on the time currently observed from March to November unless a state exempted itself before the act took effect. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., who presided over the vote on the House floor, started playing the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” on his phone as he read the final tally. President Donald Trump has publicly pushed Congress to pass the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla. He wrote May 21 on Truth Social that he was “going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law.”

“It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production. It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it!” Trump wrote. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. Though the House overwhelmingly passed the bill, the Senate is not expected to quickly take it up and pass it as well. A Senate version of the Sunshine Protection Act stalled last year after Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., objected to fast-tracking the bill’s passage via unanimous consent in October.

Cotton said the change to permanent daylight saving time could lead to overlooked negative consequences, pointing to parts of the country where the sun wouldn’t rise until 9 a.m. or later and citing potentially dangerous, dark morning commutes and workers who would need to work early mornings without sun. A senior Hill aide said Tuesday that Cotton has the “same concerns” he’s had about the proposal, and that several senators on both sides of the aisle have opposed the Senate version of the Sunshine Protection Act in committee. The aide said Cotton will ask Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., not to bring up the legislation for a vote.

The US House passed the Sunshine Protection Act that would put the US on permanent DST 308-117. The bill heads to the Senate next, and if it passes there, Donald Trump's desk.

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[johnschneiderblog]

Time travel

If you get the sense that you've already seen this movie called "Permanent Daylight Savings Time", it probably was in the 1970s and, unless you're a committed night owl, it's doubtful that it was the second show at a drive-in theater double feature.

In the 1960s there were more than 4,000 drive-in movie theaters in the U.S.; fewer than 340 remain, and surely DST shares the blame.

As you probably know the U.S. Senate passed a bill last week that would would make DST permanent, eliminating the semiannual clock-change (the House is dragging its feet on the bill).

Chambers of Commerce favor the change because it would increase daylight shopping hours. Golf course owners love it, too, for obvious reasons.

But during the early-1970s energy crises, when Congress saw permanent DST as a way for Americans to use less electricity, the experiment flopped. People didn't like those long, dark winter mornings. Congress repealed the law before the 2-year experiment ended.

And, as it turned out, permanent DST didn't reduce energy consumption, after all.

While I don't like having to wait until 10:30 p.m. to light the fuses on my Independence Day fireworks, I don't see anything terribly wrong with the current system. While it's true the semiannual time changes drive slow learners like me back to our car owners manuals twice a year, we manage.

(The above photo depicts "The Persistence of Memory," a painting by Salvadore Dali)

[auyawolf]

i'm against any measure that forces me to get up early

that's why i'm against permanent dst

also noon belongs at noon not 1 pm