[HN Gopher] Bill to make Daylight Savings permanent
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       Bill to make Daylight Savings permanent
        
       Author : polm23
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2021-01-06 10:12 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.congress.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.congress.gov)
        
       | headalgorithm wrote:
       | Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646867
        
         | Wowfunhappy wrote:
         | And I believe it was also buried by dang, on the logic that
         | bills rarely go anywhere and are thus usually not worthy of a
         | thread.
        
       | zacharytelschow wrote:
       | If we're going to adjust time, I want one timezone nation wide.
       | Heck, I want that worldwide but let's start with the US first.
        
         | sitzkrieg wrote:
         | worldwide? but what about the sun
        
       | scott_joe wrote:
       | I thought research showed it didn't save money
        
         | aeternum wrote:
         | I thought research showed it saves lives, since accidents (car
         | and work-related) are higher after daylight switches.
        
         | trvrsalom wrote:
         | I mean if research also shows that switching times twice a year
         | doesn't save money either, then it probably makes sense to
         | transition for quality of life purposes.
        
       | allanj37 wrote:
       | #RepealStandardTime
        
       | bananabiscuit wrote:
       | The best thing to do would be to keep DST but move "spring
       | forward" to occur at 11am on Monday so that we get to keep the
       | hour of sleep on Sunday and lunchtime comes sooner.
        
         | dybber wrote:
         | Would still give a problem on the following days. It takes
         | several days to change the circadian rhythm.
        
         | rvense wrote:
         | Couldn't we just insert/remove an extra five minutes the first
         | Saturday of every month? We'd get the same effect, but without
         | the jump.
        
           | dybber wrote:
           | Many clocks and watches are still manually set.
        
           | bananabiscuit wrote:
           | No I don't want any minutes taken away from my saturdays.
           | Have my hour before lunch instead
        
       | postalrat wrote:
       | What does "make daylight savings time permanent" even mean? To
       | stick with daylight savings time all year long and don't adjust
       | for winter and summer?
       | 
       | If so sounds good to me.
        
         | cuddlybacon wrote:
         | It does mean we stop adjusting the clocks twice a year. The
         | question is, do we stick with standard time or daylight savings
         | time.
         | 
         | A lot of the changeovers in NA seem to be leaning towards
         | keeping DST year round. As a Canadian, the idea is certainly
         | appealing. Currently it gets dark about 45 mins before work
         | ends. Having a bit of sunlight when you leave is nice.
         | 
         | But as pointed out below, sticking with DST is probably worse
         | for highschoolers.
        
           | NeutronStar wrote:
           | Sunlight is much more important in the mornin. That's when
           | your circadian clock restart, not when the sun goes down.
           | This has already been played out in 1974. I don't understand
           | why we need to retry the experiment.
        
       | NeutronStar wrote:
       | How is this any different than in 1974, followed by the outrages
       | to reinstate normal winter times 2 years later?
        
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