Daylight saving time 2022: U.S. Senate OK'd Sunshine Protection Act, but California will still fall back, for now

yahoo ^ | 10/10/2022

[mmichaels1970]

In the dead of winter, nobody cares that it's dark at 5 o'clock.

Suppose I'm a rare exception. I would rather it be dark longer in the morning than shorter in the evening. In the morning I'm resigned to the daily cubicle-commute and couldn't care less what the sky looks like. It can be depressing when you head for home and it's already dark.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Tommy Revolts]

Don't Arizona and Indiana already say otherwise?

Arizona and Hawaii.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I think what he is talking about, is outdoor activities, such as taking walks, going to the park, playing a round of golf, on long summer evenings before the sun has set. You wouldn’t do such things in the wintertime when the sun is down before 5 pm.

[glennaro]

The big concern in California is that if the state does not go on DST, from mid-May to the end of June it will start getting light a little after 3:30 a.m., with full daylight by 4:30 a.m. or so. A bit early even for this early riser, if you ask me!

[cuban leaf]

Yeah. Phoenix seems to get away with it.

[Round Earther]

There is no state law, there is no federal law that requires you to set your clocks back an hour.

[dfwgator]

This year, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill called the Sunshine Protection Act, which was introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida. The bill would permanently extend daylight saving time from eight months of the year to the full 12 months.

The way things are going, we may soon start calling it "War Time".

[Dilbert San Diego]

If no laws had ever been passed on this subject, why do we all reset our clocks?

[cuban leaf]

A popular “revolt” would be funny. businesses and people post their hours in DST and people leave their clocks and watches on DST.

Frankly, I think the entire world should be on GMT. It just means that the position of the sun relative to the clock depends on where you are. 23:59 in Hawaii puts the sun pretty high in the sky.

[ChessExpert]

I agree.

Has anyone in the MSM ever read the Bill of Rights, or at least the tenth Amendment? They would have you believe that only their hand-picked “Constitutional scholars” are equipped to read and understand the Constitution. It harkens back to the days when only a priest could read the Bible in Latin. I hope more people realize now, than formerly, that the Roe V. Wade decision was illegal from day one.

[WhattheDickens?]

The issue isn’t light, it’s how time changes mess with circadian rhythms — twice a year. As with so many things, people look only at the advantages and ignore the costs.

“Fall Standard Time isn’t nearly as nasty as changing clocks ahead in the spring: each year, on the Monday after the springtime switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart attack visits around the country. Researchers estimate that the sleep deprivation may take weeks for recovery.

And, perhaps not surprisingly, we’re also prone to make more deadly mistakes on the roads: Car crashes in the US caused by sleepy daylight-saving drivers are estimated to cost 30 extra people their lives.

Your body is “… fragile and susceptible… to even just one hour of lost sleep,” said sleep expert Matthew Walker, author of How We Sleep. “The brain… is just as sensitive as the heart to very small perturbations of sleep,” Walker explains in his book.”

[Round Earther]

“If no laws had ever been passed on this subject, why do we all reset our clocks?

Have you every met anyone who was arrested for not setting their clocks back an hour?

[Tench_Coxe]

Indiana for a while had effectively 3 time zones--the counties around Chicago followed Chicago, the counties down by Louisville followed Louisville, and then there was the rest of the state.

Then again, when you see their broadcasters referring to Illiana, Michiana, and Kentuckyana, you start to see the ussue.....

[cuban leaf]

I live in ET in central Kentucky. The townd directly south of us are in CT. Around here it’s called “fast time” vs “slow time”. But because we are on the western edge of eastern time, the sun sets VERY late on the first day of summer.

[Labyrinthos]

What other countries observe DST?

Mexico, all of Western Europe, New Zealand, Chili, Paraguay, most of Canada, and parts of Australia.

[coloradan]

Legislative acts do not alter the actual number of hours of daylight. Ever. Anywhere. It depends only on where the Earth is relative to the sun, and where one is located on the rotating Earth. These things aren’t changed by any decree.

[gibsonguy]

“The Sunshine Protection Act” these people, everything they do is nauseating. Of course they would permanently take away the hour instead of dong this after we get it back.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There are laws on the subject, such as the Uniform Time Act of 1966, and subsequent laws which have changed the starting and ending dates of Daylight Saving Time.

People do not get arrested for not resetting their clocks. Not sure why you bring that up.

If you evaluate whether there is a law on a subject based on whether someone gets arrested for violations, then any such discussion will be a short one.

[P.O.E.]

I used to like turning back the clocks when I worked as a bartender. Folks would get one extra hour drunker and leave enormous tips.

That was in the “good ol’ days” before the drunk driving crackdowns.