When can we live without this useless Daylight Savings?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by schizo, Nov 5, 2023.

  1. schizo

    schizo

    Anyone know??
     
  2. themickey

    themickey

    The state I'm in has no daylight saving and imo this suits me.
    Setting clocks back and forward twice a year was just a nuisance, they decided here to scrap it a few years ago.
    Car clock, kitchen wall, oven, microwave, bedside alarm clock, watch if you wear one, other gadgets....
    However overseas and other states have daylight saving and on different weekends, so the markets opening and closing hours gets confusing at times.
     
  3. ids

    ids

    There are many more important things for a polititian to care about. For example, how to stuff your pockets with money or how to get elected every time until you are dead.
     
  4. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Yet, I've been hearing rumors that politicians can still get your vote even when you're dead and even if you would have voted for someone else if you were alive. :D

    wrbtrader
     
  5. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

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  6. I live north of 45.
    It's more useful here due to seasonal variability.
    but, yeah, I'ts kunfuzing.
     
  7. Overnight

    Overnight

  8. schizo

    schizo

    What's the point? These politicians can't get anything done. From what I know, it passed the Senate but stalled in the House last year, even though there's ample evidence from the scientists that daylight savings do more harm than good. Go figure.

    • Proposed legislation to change federal law, such as Senator Marco Rubio’s Sunshine Protection Act, has stalled in 2023 despite gaining momentum in 2022.
    • Dozens of states continue to consider proposals to adopt either permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time. Yet, no states have adopted a legislative change in 2023.
    • Without new movement on proposed changes, Americans should expect clock changes to continue into 2024.
    In March of 2022, the Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate through an unusual process called unanimous consent. No formal vote took place, but when the bill was introduced, no senator objected to its passage. However, a companion bill in the House never made it out of committee, so the Sunshine Protection Act ran out of momentum and did not become law .

    What do experts say about daylight saving time?

    Studies have examined the impacts of standard time and daylight saving time on things like sleep, physical and mental health, car accidents, energy consumption, crime, economic activity, and school performance.

    After reviewing all of the evidence, groups of sleep experts like the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Research Society, and the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms have forcefully argued that the potential harmful health effects justify a policy of permanent standard time.
     
  9. Overnight

    Overnight

    That's why I sarcastically guffawed at the end there.
     
  10. schizo

    schizo

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    #10     Nov 8, 2023