The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.
It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.
I don’t know the page you’re taking about, but I found this map years ago. It changed me from being a lifelong “make DST permanent” stan to stumping for permanent standard time.
People on the westernmost sides of time zones would get absolutely hosed in the mornings under permanent DST.
This makes no sense? I could care less that I get to see the sun on my way to sit at a desk at 7am.
I want to have the sun after I’m off work to enjoy my life. DST is way better
Hosed how?
My question exactly.
Under ST in the winter it’s dark when I get up and go to work, and it’s dark when I come home. Under DT, it would be the same.
In the summer, it’s sunny when I’m still trying to sleep in the morning and still sunny when I’m trying to sleep at night. Under ST it would be the same.
The only difference would be in spring and fall, when the transition time would shift earlier or later.
Yeah, I always hate it when I’m waking up to an alarm.
I think the was the same/similar map that I saw. It also let you put in a date and it would show you was times sun rise/set would roughly be.
Those lines need to be adjusted away from state borders. Those also cause problems.
Time zone lines tend to follow state borders.
Yes. That’s the problem.
Why is that. A problem? You have to have the line somewhere. It’s better if it goes along an already existing imaginary line. If they didn’t line up, you would need to remember sets of arbitrary lines instead of 1.
It’s so weird that Hawaii is listed here because they don’t observe DST and they probably won’t jump ahead an hour just to sync up times with us.