We tried keeping DST for a year way back in the Carter era. People wer3e coplaining for exactly the reasons that Cotton said.
We need permanent time, not the twice-a-year changes. Everyone will adjust. Do it.
I agree with Senator Cotton. We should change the clocks back to Standard Time next week for the last time and be done with it.
It’s good to see our elected officials focusing on important matters.
How about standard time based on the sun and not political reasons. Noon is when the sun is at it’s highest for that time zone.
You know how hard it is to crack the concrete and reset it in my sundial’s base to adjust the dial every time there is a time change.
Why not make standard time permanent?
Why go to Daylight Savings Time permanently? Why not just keep Standard time year-round? Then when it is noon, the sun is at it’s peak, you know, like it’s supposed to be.
For Cotton: If the hour shift twice a year is good,
how about an hour and say, 25 minutes? That should help
Arkansas with the difference between night and day.
Why does Barrow, Alaska, have DST? What good does it do if the sun barely rises at all, or is up all day?
Meaning not making “permanent Daylight Savings Time the law of the land, it will again make winter a physically dark time for millions of Americans, as in early Dec. MA:
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 4:12 PM
Arkansas early Dec Sunset, about 5Pm
Go back to Standard Time...and stop the chnage cr**. Kids will go to school in the daylight...and your golfing husbands will come home earlier...unless they play 19 holes.
So glad I live in Arizona.
We’ve tried that before and it was a disaster.
Better to end DST altogether vs. making it permanent. Let’s go with “real” time.
Some of us dont like driving home from work at 4:30 pm in the dark, Tom.
It absolutely infuriates me when I see he government trying to make DST permanent. Standard Time is healthier and is natural. DST is nothing more than a money grab by golfing and retail industries. Thank God for Senator Cotton.
Bunch of sniveling whiners. DST is wonderful. When they tried it once in the 70s, kids were standing at bus stops in the dark and a host of other problems.
I like it being sunlight till 9 in the summer, and 5pm dark in the winter so I can get inside and have beef stew.
We need permanent STANDARD time!
“Fall back” one more time. Then no more clock changes!
No. Daylight savings time should, as far as the law is concerned, banned from being the standard time recognized by all, all year.
If individuals, companies, schools, cities or counties want to voluntarily adopt some seasonal change of their official starting time of the day (open for business, school, whatever) from one hour to another, of course they are able to. THAT, not changing the clocks, is all that need be “allowed”.
Voluntary adoption of the day officially starting later or earlier is all that is needed, without changing any clocks from standard time.
Ping. IIRC you once advocated this.