alt Hacker News19 States approved permanent daylight saving time
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Regardless of where you stand on this issue, I hope we can all at least agree that implementing half daylight savings time (ie a 30 minute adjustment) is just stupid.
This idea was apparently introduced in a bill last month: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7378...
Most devices don't even require manually setting the clock anymore. What exactly is so difficult about the time changing by an hour?
You can just set your clocks to whatever you want. Stop trying to force people to do it with the government.
If you look at a schedule of sunrise and sunset, there is no reasonable hour for school kids to walk in the daylight year-round. So your choice is to either let them walk in the dark in winter; not let them walk at all; change school hours seasonally; or change all hours seasonally.
It’s not clear that daylight savings is the least reasonable solution. And there is no fundamental reason to me that the time has to be the same in two different states. Wanting to live with the hobgoblin of consistency does not make your plan correct.
Anybody know what those of us in the remaining states can do to help push this forward? I've never contacted my local representatives before, but this is the kind of no-brainer change that I would love for us to finally enact.