Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 05/21/2026 5:25:00 PM PDT by ducttape45
Big Vote today (48-1!) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent! This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks. Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive! The House will be attaching The Sunshine Protection Act to ''The Highway Bill." Great work by Troy Nehls, and all of the Members who voted, as well, for Railway Safety. I am going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law. It's time that people can stop worrying about the ''Clock," not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production. It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it! We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day - And who can be against that - This is an easy one! Thank you to everyone who supported this important Bill, and especially Chairman Brett Guthrie and Vern Buchanan.
President DONALD J. TRUMP
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
Actually AZ would be grouped with the other “Mountain Time” states...they are trying to federally mandate DST I think. (AZ not exempt). (I could be wrong I haven’t read the proposed legislation).
I believe the states have some leeway to employ DST at all. The Indian reservations do complicate things here. But my understanding is that the rule was when DST starts and stops IF YOU CHOOSE TO EMPLOY IT. That was for the simple reason that having different states start and stop at different times would be chaotic.
But you are right. We all have to see the law. AZ could just go over to Pacific time, and there would be no difference if it is presented as a mandate.
I think the whole DST thing is ridiculous, yes noon should be, well, at high noon. But for the OP to say that that is what will turn their support away from PDJT is ludicrous.
Why not just standard time
Yes !!!
Do farmers use clocks? I thought they worked according to the sun and not a man-made clock?
I don’t like the switching twice a year either. I only switch once a year as a compromise.
POTUS can walk and chew gum at any time, while successfully prosecuting the Iran conflict.
wtaf
I remember when they tried this in 1974 thanks to Tricky Dick Nixon. Kids had to go to school in pitch darkness in the winter months.
Daylight is not saved, the term “daylight savings” is a lie. The “health consequences” argument is BS.
“Let the states decide for themselves”
I think they do already, as some states already don’t change time. When I lived in HI, time never changed.
It takes me a few minutes twice a year to change those clocks that don't do it automatically, and it costs me nothing to do it.
We have a clock that changes the time automatically, bought before Bush instituted the current change dates. We’re having to re-adjust that POS 4 times every year. There’s no way to disable it. (It has an excellent radio.)
There is no actual daylight savings time. It’s a man made illusion as is time. If there’s 24hrs in a day, what you call each hour is irrelevant.
It’s like being retired is today Monday or Saturday?
Yes, they do. I live in Arizona, which stays on standard time in the summer except for the Navajo reservation.
Because of the golf lobby. They want that extra hour available to them to golf. In the meanwhile, kids get killed at the bus stops and people suffer neurological distress (like me).
“Yes, plants will grow bigger with the extra light the government has provided.”
I was going to reply to another comment but what you said will do nicely.
I think people in the NW push it too because it is so dark. I hate it , I just want standard time.
Lol, yes I remember that one.
So now we can say that that song is timeless.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.