Comment on An EXTRA Hour!

PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• spader312@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We are currently on DST. Standard is what we are moving to this weekend. Many states are passing laws to make DST (summer time) permanent. But federally it’s not legal yet so only if it becomes legal federally then we can stop changing the clock. There was a bill passed in the Senate at the beginning of this year called Sunshine Protection Act. But it has yet to be put on the house floor. And it probably never will since the house is a shit show right now

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  • Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t even gaf. Whichever way. I can get used to it. Just split the difference and shift a half hour and leave it. I just want to quit changing twice a year.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Arizona already doesn’t do DST. What’s preventing other states from doing the same?

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    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The idea that people like the extra hour of sunlight in the evening in the summer

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      • pohart@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The idea is that businesses like the extra hour because people don’t shop as much after dark.

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      • spader312@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also the sun rising at 4:30am during the summer also kinda sucks for your sleep

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IIRC the issue was we can’t pass “permanent standard time” laws but we could pass “permanent daylight time”. I could be wrong though

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    • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The states are actually allowed to switch to permanent standard time any time they want without any objections from the federal government.

      Permanent DST requires laws to be changed.

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