I recall this had gained momentum under Biden but ultimately failed for what I can only perceive as the GOP not wanting that W to happen under the Dems.

This goes up for vote almost yearly at this point and fails because no one can agree on which schedule to use.

See the rest of the comments lol.

Known liar too.

Pledged to donate a ton of money to climate change organizations. As of tracking it until 2 years ago, he had actually donated only 3% of the pledge.

Isn't that how some pressure is put on to make it pass?

How will all the people who make a living writing articles about this find work? Especially now that all of the "My 2 cents: The debate and history of the penny" article writers are also jobless.

Come on man, this is like the one sane thing they're doing right now. Do you really need to talk shit about it? Advancing a bill doesn't mean they are arguing. This is them doing something for once that isn't insane and bad for everyone.

I mean just because minimum wage is too low doesn't mean we shouldn't change to permanent daylight savings.

Retail likes extra daylight when people get off work, so they can buy stuff.

To clarify: the retail association of America is the big lobby here.

I, like most humans, just don't care for the change.

Let him have it. This is how you manipulate people like him.

Big agree with this. Permanently DST sucks, and we have historical basis for that claim. Anyone above a certain latitude is going to loathe this change any anyone southern enough to not feel as much of the earths tilt wont notice much of a difference. Depending how far east you are in your timezone will change how it effects you too.

Permanent DST is equivalent to permanent standard time with business hours moved an hour earlier. I assume that standard business hours were originally set by businesses to maximize profits—so if permanent earlier hours are better for business than permanent standard hours, why didn’t businesses set earlier hours to begin with?

I'm still hugely in favor of a permanent dlst. It fucking sucks to be dark as hell before you even get home from a normal work day. If you're going to cage the public till 5pm, at least give the opportunity at a brief bit of light.

People didn't hate it, they were given propaganda and then they hated it. Because people are morons.

Forcing you body to wake up in the dark so you have an extra bit of light on your commute home is galaxy brain stupid. The suns still gonna rob you of your early evenings in the winter.

I absolutely agree that permanant DST is preferred, and am shocked that that's the proposal here, as usually the idea is to make standard time permanant. I work in an office, so I don't care how dark or light it is when I get up in the morning, but I'd kill for more time after work. I've, of course, tried to get my office to allow me to shift my schedule but that doesn't fly of course.

Even though permanent DST makes more sense, I’d take either.

I wouldn't. Sun comes up at 4:30 in the summer in Japan and you can see first light at 3. They really need to move ahead an hour, and if the US did permanent standard time instead of DST it'd be the same. Time zones in the US are already pretty big though. In the western areas of some time zones the summer sunset is at 9 PM (which I don't mind, but most people probably wouldn't want that so much).

This is only a good idea when you don't think about it.

End the AM/PM stuff too!

I think it would take a bit of getting used to, but I would not be opposed to this.

This is the dumbest fucking idea I've seen yet. Far, far worse than daylight savings time.

They kind of do that in China. All parts of China officially use Beijing time, even though the easternmost part is an hour ahead and the westernmost part three hours behind. In Xinjiang, they mostly just ignore it and use local time.

Not changing time is good when one travels a lot. If one does not travel much, one single time is hardly useful. However, there are merits to the idea.

I also appreciate getting rid of the penny

After years and years of this debate, I’m starting to feel like the time change is just the best compromise. Because we’re never going to satisfy the people that for some reason don’t understand that we can just start things at a different time.

In BC, Canada, it became permanent this year. Originally, the entire west coast of North America was supposed to switch at the same time. All the US states backed out.

Am i right in thinking that your intro and 'bottom line' are handwritten, but the middle section (emoji-laden and sprinkled with overconfident sourceless statistics) is AI generated?

Your BS AI generated rundown didn't even mention the cost to software development. Dealing with DST is a thorn in my side, it's definitely cost the company I work for tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars just in the few years I've been there.

What prompt did you use to generate the middle of your comment

The heart attack thing is probably untrue, but it doesn't need to be true to justify ending three DST nonsense.

https://medschool.duke.edu/news/daylight-saving-time-may-not-trigger-heart-attacks-after-all-study-finds