Posted on 03/14/2018 11:16:08 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Responding to legislation that cleared the Florida Legislature last week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced a pair of bills in Congress, one allowing Florida to stay in daylight saving time year-round and the other putting the entire nation on year-round daylight saving time.
Florida lawmakers passed a bill sponsored by state Sen. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, that asks Congress to permit the state to maintain daylight saving time all year. Congress currently allows states to opt out of daylight saving time and stay in standard time year-round, but not the other way around.
Reflecting the will of the Sunshine State, I proudly introduce these bills that would approve Floridas will and, if made nationally, would also ensure Florida is not out of sync with the rest of the nation, Rubio said in a press release.
Rubios press release includes a list of benefits from staying in daylight saving time year-round, including increased economic activity, fewer robberies, reduced car crashes, increased physical fitness and even a reduction in childhood obesity.
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No way. I have to drive home from work in darkness 7 months a year as it is now; if I had to do that for 10 months a year, I might not survive it.
Permanent DST? Yes, more please. The only useful daylight for me during the entire calendar year is from 7:00pm until sunset.
I’m for cutting a foot off the top of the blanket and sewing it to the bottom of the blanket, not from the bottom and sewing it to the top ... that would be stupid.
PLEASE!!!!!!!
I *HATE* changing the clocks with a passion.
Yea!
I don’t care about those people at all, Mears.
DST is pure retardation! We have inexpensive lighting these days for the whiners. Totally, totally, not needed and hasn’t been for a long long time.
As it was said: The government cuts six inches off the top of a blanket, sews it on the end and tells you that you now have a longer blanket.
Pick the 1/2 hour in between as the current time, put everyone on it, make it so.
GMTA.
That's been my solution for a long time.
I like it light out later in the summer. so would rather not go back to standard time.
Really tackling a weighty issue there, Rube.
So true.
It’s called “War Time” and what we had during WWII.
The problem isn't ST (standard time) or DST (daylight savings time).....it is switching from one to the other. Pick one and stick with it year-round. I don't much care which one.
Go back to Standard Time and stay there. No need for a 9:30 PM sunset.
I like the old Roman Empire time method.
Every day the Sun rose at 6 o’clock. All year round............
No kids stand anymore. Kids either wait in a car or house for buses that stop every 20ft/house.
An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later. Winston Churchill
Keep the time set to EST all year!
That drives me nuts. Can't have the little darlings walk a block or two to get to the bus stop. I used to have to walk to another neighborhood to get to the bus stop. Year after year after year all through high school.
Animals get up with the sun.
Doesn’t really matter what the clock says, the cows will still need to be fed.
DST doesn’t save any energy, but for the love of Chronos stop adding or subtracting hours. It annoys me.
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