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This is being pushed by Florida politicians who want later sunsets in the winter, which is better for tourism (and general quality of life for many residents there). If you are on the Western part of a timezone (e.g. Michigan), you may prefer to be in standard time all year long, or prefer the status quo or just not care either way.

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I grew up in Michigan and loved the late sunsets. If I could I'd always be in the western edge of my timezone during DST.

Maine has passed a bill with a similar outcome (moving to AST)

On the coastal side of the enormous Eastern Time Zone, I like the idea of permanent EDT or the proposed AST. Permanent DST (nationwide) is slightly better for New England than AST, because it avoids the hassle of being in a different time zone than New York, D.C., et al. On the other hand, it's probably not as good for, say, Indianapolis.

Creating new time zones split north/south is a possible solution here. I would prefer that to any option that involves changing the clocks twice a year.

as much as I would like DST to be the standard, I would find it absolutely awesome where, if Congress can agree to one or the other but not which, a binding coinflip were done to decide which one wins.

In the real world, shrewd business lobbies certainly have too much interest one way or the other to let fate decide.

I would love to see a speciality DST-themed, NIST-designed (for 50:50 surety) U.S. coin to be used in such a case.

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