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Trump vows to eliminate Daylight Saving Time
(www.thecentersquare.com)
Right after lowering grocery prices.
I'd rather be on savings time year round but yeah, the switch is the worst.
Good news for you: that's what he's likely planning (if he implements the 2022 Senate bill as-is).
Bad news for kids: that means they have to walk to school in the dark with sleep-deprived people operating heavy machinery in their vicinity for a bigger portion of the year.
"Won't someone think of the children?"
There's a pretty major difference between a moral panic and pointing out that something is going to decrease safety. Most notably, those moral panics are often opposed to things that actually do make kids safer.
Changing the clocks is already associated with an increase in fatal traffic accidents. If you're concerned about safety then let's stop changing the clocks.
Fully agree! But let's not change them in a direction that also has known safety hazards.
Broken clock.
A broken clock can be right three times a day, if it breaks between 2AM and 3AM on the day of the DST change....
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Except that the Dems tried to do this recently and the Republicans wouldn't come to the table, but as soon as they are in: "oh hey guys, check out our great policy you all love".
Just saw this comment after posting saying it better than i: https://lemmy.world/comment/13969026
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Good.
The extra hour of sunshine cannot be good for global temperatures.
I'm assuming you're joking, but I'm also assuming some morons actually believe this.
Every hour of sunlight brings 173,000 terrawatt hours of total solar irradiance. Even one hour is enough to make a big difference.
Those clocks are mighty powerful.
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this would be pretty good. i hope he's not full of shit on this one thing
So states he can't fix greedflation and moves to checks notes ....eliminating daylight savings. Pretty fuckin low on the list...
Trump says lots of things.
Who knows which he will actually try to do?
Or how many of those things he will actually succeed at?
Exactly "Trump vow" = "hot air"
Finally something I can support
The Sunlight Protection Act has been put up several times and passed by the Senate as recently as 2022. It sits in a committee at this time. I'm sure trump will take credit if it works its way through.
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The fun is in trying to figure out how this will be profitable for him.
Nice low-effort distraction from endless high crimes against America maybe.
Fingers crossed that this gives us an extra hour of sunshine after work instead of before. It's so depressing to leave the office at 4pm and it's already dark out.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but permanent daylight time is bad for public health.
One link to a research article from 1974 about fuel usage. One link to an article about the change between time offset being a problem. No substantiation for other claims. This article is practically an editorial.
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I'm fine with that, but I think we should settle on Daylight Savings time. You know, when time is an hour ahead of what it is now.
Standard time is the WORST. My political party might be permanent Daylight Savings Time
If we had year-round DST, the sun wouldn't rise until after 8 AM in the winter.
I live in the PNW, USA. It's dark when I get to work and when I get home. I'd rather have light at the end of my day. Winter/standard time is terrible.
That's totally fine.
If DST wasn't a thing, it would still not get dark in the summer time until after 9PM for me. I'd rather stay on permanent DST because winter is absolutely miserable when it's dark until mid-late morning, dreary, rainy, and overcast all "day", and then dark again by mid-afternoon.
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And yet the happiest countries in the world spend most of the day in winter in darkness, some completely.
Though to be fair most of that has to do with how the governments tend to be more socialist.
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I wake up at 6:45-7 most days and it's not like it's bright then either. I would MUCH prefer an hour more of daylight after I get off work
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I support standard time more, the 12 o clock at the center of the timezone should be noon, not having noon at 1PM, and day lengths are better on average without. DST makes it better, but only for sunset times, it makes the mornings drastically worse and I think employers and schools should just change their hours if they care so much about sunlight when they leave.
I support daylight savings time more and all of those regions where the sun doesn't rise before 7AM can switch time zones.
For example, all of the USA switches to permanent daylight savings time, and the western portion of Texas that sees 0 days with a sunrise before 7 AM switches to the Mountain time zone. Now they will experience sunrise before 7 AM much more often.
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Just trying to distract the public from any number of his fucked up shit
Instead of squawking over which to have, how about we all just uze Zulu time and eliminate the timezone confusion as well?
Extra hour of sunlight for golf no doubt.
That would be permanent Daylight Savings, not eliminating it.
Though I'm not sure he or many others know the difference.
Half the people cheering the elimination of DST actually want permanent DST. Can't wait for this to go through, morons will get what they asked for instead of what they wanted. Theyre going to spend the extra hour of sun asleep in their beds.
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I'm for permanent daylight. Not a morning person so i hate the sun coming up so early. The mornings should be dark and gloomy (because I have to go to work, work sucks) plus the added benefit of actually having some light when you get off work. The sun going down right when I'm finally off is kind of insulting and depressing.
Getting anyone to come to an agreement on this will be impossible since its based on preference.
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He'll probably fuck it up by pushing for year-round DST (where the sun wouldn't rise until after 8 AM in the winter).
Uhh this is what I want. Id rather have sunlight after work than before
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