Senate, House clash on time change (NM - standard or daylight time year round?)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | February 21, 2019 | Dan McKay

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE — New Mexico’s two legislative chambers remain at odds over whether the state should “spring forward” or “fall back.”

The Senate on Thursday voted 25-17 in favor of a bill that would allow New Mexico to remain on daylight saving time all year long, if a federal law is passed allowing the change.

Earlier this week, however, the House passed a proposal to keep the state on Mountain standard time all year long. It isn’t contingent on changing federal law.

Each bill will now cross over to the other chamber. Neither proposal will reach Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham unless the House and Senate agree on the same legislation.

Opponents of both proposals have focused on the potential to complicate life in southern New Mexico, where it’s common for people to cross state lines on visits to El Paso or Lubbock, Texas, a state that participates in both standard and daylight saving time.

[CedarDave]

With Arizona on Standard Time year round, New Mexico is the only continental US state where you change time twice while passing through during the months DST is in effect. Imagine the confusion if either standard or daylight time is in effect year round, especially for southern New Mexico as the article says.

[marktwain]

Far less confusion if they do not change all their clocks twice a year.

[cpdiii]

Get rid of the federal edict of daylight savings time. If businesses and schools want to change their schedules to accommodate workers and students this is good. Do not change the damn clock, just change the time you report to work or school.

[Ben Hecks]

DST is stupid! Eliminate it across the board. It serves absolutely no purpose.

[fruser1]

Once you can change the definition of time, it’s relatively easy to change the definition of things like marriage and gender.

[sparklite2]

New Mexico farmers hate DST.
They complain that the extra hour
of sunlight is burning up the crops.

[justiceseeker93]

Wonder what the arguments would be for and against:

(1) Mountain Standard Time all year long

(2) Mountain Daylight Time all year long

(3) Leaving things just as they are: standard time from early November through early March, daylight time from early March through early November - just like the large majority of states do and seem to be happy with?

I suppose the 'Rats in the state legislature want change just for the sake of change. That's the leftist mindset.

[CedarDave]

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[SanchoP]

Opponents of both proposals have focused on the potential to complicate life in southern New Mexico, where it’s common for people to cross state lines on visits to El Paso or Lubbock, Texas, a state that participates in both standard and daylight saving time.

I've always thought New Mexicans about "half a bubble off" and blamed it on the time change. No matter how they try "You Can't Fix Stupid".

[gov_bean_ counter]

See, they really can’t even agree on what time it is...

[DLfromthedesert]

LOL!

[KarlInOhio]

Bring back local solar time. Every town in New Mexico will have its own time.

[guyman]

I have spent time in New Mexico. It is not better than old Mexico.

[scrabblehack]

http://time-time.net/times/time-zones/usa-canada/usa-time-zone-map.php

It looks like northern Montana qualifies too.
(Northern New Mexico does not currently qualify).

Now if New Mexico flips to dark brown, you could have to jump 2 hours when crossing from Central Texas, or just one from El Paso.

The really confusing part would be going from UTC-7 in New Mexico to UTC-6 in Northern Arizona, back to UTC-7 in that dark brown splotch, back to UTC-6, and then back to UTC-7 as you go west.

[scrabblehack]

Alaska potentially counts also. Change when crossing in from Canada, then change again in the Aleutians. You’d have to take a boat though.

[DesertRhino]

I like the final daylight at 9pm in the summer.

[Disambiguator]

Except in Hatch, where the extra sun time makes for muy picante Big Jims.

[9422WMR]

“I suppose the ‘Rats in the state legislature want change just for the sake of change. That’s the leftist mindset.”
I’m surprised the idiots in New Mexico don’t vote to make it daylight 24 hours a day, so they have more time to play!

[ridesthemiles]

When you are farming for a living, and are in the fields early until late, you can have an opinion about DST.

[SamAdams76]

We go through this nonsense every year.

Daylight Savings is a GOOD THING for working people.

People who don't work for a living have nothing else to do but bellyache about how they have to get off their lazy asses twice a year to change a couple of clocks. The world's smallest violin plays for them.

But for people who work for a living, having that extra hour of daylight during the warmer months after a long day of work is a godsend.