The US House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas by parents, farmers and others with sharply divergent views.

It will now head to the Senate for approval before going to the president for his signature — though its chances in the upper chamber remain unclear.

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[+] 49 points 4 months ago (18 children)
  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    It would be nice. I would love to not have to keep two sets of each tool type just because America can't admit Europe did something better. And not just a little better, like, it's embarrassing how difficult SAE is over metric.

    It's probably too late for me. But I dream of a world where my grandchildren only need one socket wrench set.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    If you do enough stuff yourself you already have two sets of tools. And torx bits. And triple squares. And reverse Torx and triple square. And robertsons. And Allen bits.

    And extended versions of all of those. And short versions. And impact versions and the good ones and the garbage ones and sometimes extractor versions if you had a real bad day and went to Harbor Freight three times.

    But never a ten mill when you need one.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Australian here.

    It's been a long time since I encountered a nut or bolt that was unambiguously imperial, but my 13mm socket probably gets more use than it should 😏

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  • [+] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The worst is getting out in the field with your 5lb hammer only to find you only brought metric stakes, so you gotta go all the way back and get your 3kg hammer.

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  • [+] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I just have two measuring tapes. With the dual tapes the markings are on the least convenient side of the tape half the time.

    I do rough measurements in SAE so I know what to get at the lumber store, then do the actual cutting measured in metric. Those measurements happen at different times at different accuracy, and do not benefit from being on the same tape measure.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The US has been officially on the metric system since the Carter administration

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