Posted on 02/10/2025 2:03:43 PM PST by Rio
Today, Senator Rick Scott introduced the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act, to officially “lock the clock” and end the twice-yearly time change and make Daylight Saving Time the national year-round standard.
Senator Rick Scott said, “I hear from Americans constantly that they are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a year – it’s an unnecessary, decades-old practice that’s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them.
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Yes, I would make the standard time permanent!
Why lie to ourselves, let it be clearly like it is!
I’m tired of changing it twice a year. It takes me 1-2 weeks to adjust to the change.
Just pick one or the other and keep it year round.
Schools can pick a start time that works for them.
I don’t care which one they pick. Just make a decision and stick with it.
Do it! It’s foolish to change the clocks twice a year. Choose one and keep it. I prefer DST all year around, but will go with Standard Time if that’s what they choose.
Let’s compromise. Spring forward just a half-hour this year and leave it.
No, he got it right. DST rocks. More daylight after work for the working guy.
List of clocks to reset at time change (17):
-____wall clock in breakfast room
-____wall clock in basement
-____wall clock in half bath
-____table top clock in bedroom 1
-____table top clock in bedroom 2
-____table top clock in garage
-____microwave
-____stove
-____Wife’s car
-____My car
-____Basement weather station
OPTIONAL
-____fountain timer
-____weather radio in den
-____weather radio in garage
-____weather station in basement
-____outdoor temperature device
-____plant light timers
Most of Arizona already stays on standard time year-round. I prefer that, myself, but think the question should be left to the states. There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution about setting the nation’s clocks.
Just in case you’re not aware that when this bill goes into effect, what was previously called daylight savings time will be renamed standard time meaning there will be no EDT, CDT, etc., just EST, CST, and so on.
Yes. Absolutely! Get rid of it or keep it or whatever but stop screwing around with the clock twice a year.
Just pick a time and go with it ... the chickens, cows, sheep, cattle, etc. get along fine without changing their internal clocks.
I guess we could do what China does, have one time zone for the entire country, then you could move to the part of the country that would best suit your needs and have no more grumbling about daylight savings time or daylight standard time.
I suppose states could decide which time zone they wanted to be in, too. If DST were to become permanent, Arizona could shift to the Pacific time zone and the clocks in most of the state would remain unchanged.
Just make the time whether standard or daylight uniform across the nation. It would be chaos if some states had daylight daylight time and others didn’t. The reason we have time zones is because in the 19th century cities and states had their own times creating a mess with railroad schedules. Just set the darn clocks and be done with it.
Leave it alone. If we had Standard Time all year, the sun would rise just after 4 a.m. during the longest days of the summer at my location. I would rather it come up later and set close to 9:00 p.m. Without a fall time change, the sun would rise after 8 a.m and close to 9:00 farther west during early to mid-winter, not good for kids who are waiting for busses or walking to school. The current setup is a better way to manage hours of daylight so they are more useful to more people.
If this scheme goes through, you’re gonna find that daylight savings time ain’t so popular around Christmas. Or among those with kids going to school in the morning.
A first-world problem.
I don’t know where you live, but here at 7:00 AM it’s still dark.
Why not just split the difference?
I just take the battery out of mine, can't stand that annoying beeping.
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