House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time

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26 points·donohoe··9 comments

This is the wrong call, we should have gone for permanent standard time instead of this. Permanent DST was tried already in the 1970s and everyone in my parents’ generation tells me it was a complete and total disaster

It shouldn't matter. If there are bad effects from lack of daylight regardless of number on wall, the schedule should be changed. Technology lets us do that and communicate about it a lot easier.

Just have winter hours if it affects you. Why can't we do that?

Because the world and the jobs we need to put food on the table and roofs over our heads work on whatever the local time is and don’t allow for waking up on standard time if your locale is running on DST?

1974 was over a half-century ago; it is extremely weak evidence with everything that's changed since then, at best.

Not sure I follow. I can't imagine humanity has evolved much since 1974.

While human biology hasn't changed in any meaningful sense, technology and US culture have changed dramatically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...

Interestingly, DST itself had been standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 less than a decade before that!

IMHO seems like permanent standard time would have been the more logical route (apparently it could have been done at the state level under current federal laws), but "more logical" doesn't always mean "easier to accomplish."

Any other devs thinking about how much pain DST caused them and how we now have to go through the equal pain of unfixing DST? For the record, I support this legislation, but here’s to another week of messing with time.

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