Posted on 03/17/2023 6:09:14 AM PDT by george76
Yet another scandal at the poorly led Department of Transportation
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Most Americans don't like having to change their clocks twice a year for daylight saving time. An AP-NORC poll from late 2019 found that 71 percent of Americans preferred a permanent year-long time system. There's a bipartisan bill designed to eliminate the controversial "fall back, spring forward," but it's being held up in part because of an unlikely source: Pete Buttigieg, the scandal-plagued secretary of transportation.
The Washington Post reports that Congress is unlikely to pass legislation anytime soon. The Sunshine Protection Act, cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.), needs more support from undecided lawmakers to gain traction.
Alas, some of those undecided members of Congress told the Post they planned to withhold support until the U.S. Department of Transportation, led by Buttigieg, finishes its ongoing review of daylight saving time policies. Presumably due to Buttigieg's inexperience and lackadaisical leadership style, the review is "not expected to be completed until year's end."
Buttigieg's inability to reform our time system has been denounced by critics including Jimmy Kimmel, the left-wing political activist and late-night television host. "The last time Pete [Buttigieg] was on our show, I asked him to end [daylight saving time]," Kimmel said in November 2021. "He said he'd see what he could do. You know what he did? He did nothing. He did nothing at all."
It's not clear if Buttigieg even understands how daylight saving time works. "Here's what 8 a.m. looks like on the western edge of the eastern time zone, a few days before daylight savings kicks in," he wrote on Twitter in November 2018.
"I stand corrected," he tweeted several minutes later. "Daylight Savings is underway, so it's about to kick... out?"
Buttigieg is widely considered (without evidence) to be a rising star in the Democratic Party who will almost certainly be elected president someday. (He won't.)
Your mom was right.
You do not have to change your clocks and you can refuse to change your clocks, and you will suffer no legal penalty.
Those who do change their clocks are are sheep who follow along with any whim of the federal government.
“..I’m gonna lose my lunch over that picture....”
LOL.... Well, you’re gonna go hungry for awhile, because the pic is the EXACT mindset that’s now running the country.
Daylight time is left up to the states under current law. Arizona and Hawaii exempt themselves from Daylight Time.
Somebody pasted Buttgeek’s creepy mug over the creepy mug of some other wimpy p-whipped excuse for a male ...
Not to imply that Buttgeek is p-whipped. Buttgeek has nothing to do with “p”. He’s just a fag.
Changing a couple of clocks is pretty low on my list of crap to worry about so I’ll take a pass on this one.
Pete went to London on a trip, but he was disappointed to learn that Big Ben was a clock.
That one little letter makes a huge difference.
Changing the clocks doesn’t bother me, I like the daylight at the end of the day to play and do chores.
Right. That’s how it should be, but I was referring to the proposed federal law.
I live in Arizona, and definitely prefer standard time in the summer. People in northern states may well prefer DST in the summer. Congress shouldn’t be trying to impose either option on the entire nation.
What? You mean it’s NOT real? Come, now, NM. Of course it’s real. Even SNOPES says it is NOT real. Check it out.
OK, you convinced me.
If those creepy communist retards at “snopes” say it’s fake, IT MUST BE REAL.
Now you’ve come to your senses!
what did secretary ButtPlug do this time?
To me, yes. Because so far it is in perpetuity. However, it is subjective what “constantly” denotes.
OMG, why did you have to post that revolting picture of Buttplug and that poor, poor kid?=====
Benjamin Franklin was not alive in 1918 when the law was enacted.
Personally, I like having later sunsets in the summer.
Most proposals to have one year-round time would preserve daylight saving time so it’s not a question of keeping the late evenings of summer, it’s a question of whether or not you want dark mornings from November to February (more applicable to northern regions of the lower 48 and Canada).
I suspect a lot of people who whine about changing the time twice a year would start whining about the dark mornings in December and January when it wouldn’t start getting daylight until 8 a.m. or even 8:30 in many places. But they wouldn’t realize that was going to happen until after the system changed.
Before this system came into being, people were on standard time all year and it got dark an hour earlier in the summer. That’s why they changed the system (about 1919 to 1925 in most cases). They probably studied the idea of just making all time zones an hour later but ran into the dark winter morning issue. Why is it an issue? Mainly because kids would be walking to school in the dark. Nowadays that probably isn’t the big deal it was a century ago, most kids get rides and if they don’t, school opening times are more variable.
Personally I don’t care, I can adjust to whichever system is in place. A few parts of Canada don’t change their clocks at all, they sort of ride one time zone for winter and one for summer. Creston BC stays on Mountain Standard time all year, that way they are at the same local time as other places further west in Pacific time when they go to daylight saving, which avoids confusion when people are travelling in the region, but they have the earlier daylight in the winter mornings, being so far west in their time zone.
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