Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent

Washington Post ^ | 4 November 2022 | Dan Diamond

[ShadowAce]

Early this Sunday morning, Americans will engage in the annual autumnal ritual of “falling back” — setting their clocks back one hour to conform with standard time.

If some lawmakers had their way, it would mark the end of a tradition that has stretched for more than a century. But a familiar story unspooled of congressional gridlock and a relentless lobbying campaign, this one from advocates that some jokingly call “Big Sleep.”

“I know that the permanent standard time people and the permanent daylight saving time people will be disappointed because they didn’t get what they wanted, and we will be out of sync with other countries,” Malow said. “But it’s a way to stop going back and forth.”rmanent stanis fall is a stark contrast from their sunny celebrations when the Senate abruptly passed their bill two days after the “spring forward” clock change, with still-groggy lawmakers campaigning on it as a common-sense reform.

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“My phone has been ringing off the hook in support of this bill — from moms and dads who want more daylight before bedtime to senior citizens who want more sun in the evenings to enjoy the outdoors to farmers who could use the extra...

[Steely Tom]

The semiannual stock story pseudo controversy.

[marron]

The whole notion of “daylight savings time” needs to go by the wayside.

[dragnet2]

In Arizona we don’t play the time change game.

[doorgunner69]

Curiously, the two places I live in or visit do not observe DST.

[Rurudyne]

Maybe now rent controls in a few cities will finally end?

[ConservativeMind]

Just have Standard time, all year.

[lee martell]

That’s a now antiquated method.
Let us ‘spring foward’ into a new age, where time remains the same. Enough tic-tock hop scotch.

[jimtorr]

Mark me with the common sense belief that daylight savings time served it’s purpose at one time, long ago, but whose usefulness ended 50 years ago.

[BitWielder1]

One way or the other is fine but please don't compromise on 1/2 hour off.

[yuleeyahoo]

I do not participate. Haven’t for years.

[No name given]

I second that notion.

[No name given]

I wish other states would too.

[Myrddin]

In Arizona we don’t play the time change game.

In Idaho, we do play the time change game. Sunset after 9 PM in the Summer is great. Unlike AZ, there is no economic benefit accrued to sharing a border with CA. Having sunrise after 9 AM at the end of December is nonsense. It is after 8 AM on standard time.

[stevio]

So people think they actually get an extra hour of sunlight? And they’re cool with it being dark until after 8am though?

[gibsonguy]

Exactly it figures the rats were trying keep us from getting the hour back. Philosophically consistent to what they are.

[marron]

If for some reason I need to start my day an hour earlier, I get up an hour earlier. I don’t insist that the whole rest of the world do the same.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The headline makes no sense, or only makes sense as clickbait. The clock has not run out. Daylight savings time could be made permanent in any year. This is an annual debate that most people don’t care about.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I like the status quo. Permanent standard time means that part of the year the sun comes up so early that most people are still asleep. Where I live, that would be around 4 a.m. in the summer. Permanent DST means that the sun comes up very late in the mid-winter, in some places close to 9 a.m. when kids are going off to school. They tried permanent DST for a while in the 70s in order to save energy, and it was a flop. I had to catch the bus for school at 7:10 a.m. and I made my walk to the bus stop by starlight.

The status quo isn’t perfect, but it does shift daylight hours to the parts of the day when they can be most useful to most people.

[glorgau]

Daylight savings time is like cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sewing that to the top and then claiming the blanket is longer.