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Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent
Washington Post ^
| 4 November 2022
| Dan Diamond
Posted on 11/04/2022 11:34:18 AM PDT by 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.
“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...
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:34:18 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
The semiannual stock story pseudo controversy.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:35:45 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: ShadowAce
The whole notion of “daylight savings time” needs to go by the wayside.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:36:36 AM PDT
by
marron
To: ShadowAce
In Arizona we don’t play the time change game.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:36:44 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: ShadowAce
Curiously, the two places I live in or visit do not observe DST.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:38:04 AM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: ShadowAce
Maybe now rent controls in a few cities will finally end?
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:38:20 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: ShadowAce
Just have Standard time, all year.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:38:26 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ShadowAce
That’s a now antiquated method.
Let us ‘spring foward’ into a new age, where time remains the same. Enough tic-tock hop scotch.
To: ShadowAce
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.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:39:51 AM PDT
by
jimtorr
To: ShadowAce
One way or the other is fine but please don't compromise on 1/2 hour off.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:40:00 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: ShadowAce
I do not participate. Haven’t for years.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:40:14 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
To: marron
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:41:07 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
To: dragnet2
I wish other states would too.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:41:25 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
To: dragnet2
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.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:42:53 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: ShadowAce
So people think they actually get an extra hour of sunlight? And they’re cool with it being dark until after 8am though?
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:43:56 AM PDT
by
stevio
(.)
To: ConservativeMind
Exactly it figures the rats were trying keep us from getting the hour back. Philosophically consistent to what they are.
To: ShadowAce
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.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:44:31 AM PDT
by
marron
To: ShadowAce
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.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:45:26 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: ShadowAce
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.
To: ShadowAce
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.
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posted on
11/04/2022 11:46:46 AM PDT
by
glorgau
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