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With the looming Daylight Saving Time cruelty of losing an hour descending upon us a mere week from now, it is worth noting that Texas has again introduced bills to abolish it in the Lone Star State.
For the 2019 Texas Legislature, House Bill 49 and Senate Bill 190 have been filed, with both being referred to the House and Senate State Affairs Committees.
The bills would exempt Texas from daylight saving time, including the portion of the state in Mountain Standard Time.
Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that have opted out of Daylight Saving Time currently. New Mexico is also currently considering legislation to stop switching, with the House attempting to end DST and the Senate attempting to switch to it permanently.
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[Ed. addition] Properly, DST is not "Daylight Savings Time"; it is "Daylight Saving Time". It has been so often misused, however, that it has become common usage. Also, Wikipedia's entry on Daylight Saving Time notes a tidbit I found interesting:
The time at which clocks are to be shifted differs across jurisdictions. The European Union has a coordinated shift, shifting all zones at the same instant, at 01:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which means that it changes at 02:00 Central European Time (CET) or 03:00 Eastern European Time (EET), the result is that the time differences across European time zone remain constant.[41][42] North America shifts at 02:00 but at the local time and is consequently uncoordinated so that, for example, Mountain Time is, for one hour, zero hours ahead of Pacific Time instead of one hour ahead in the autumn and two hours instead of one ahead of Pacific Time in the spring.
The dates on which clocks are to be shifted also vary with location and year; consequently, the time differences between regions also vary throughout the year. For example, Central European Time is usually six hours ahead North American Eastern Time, except for a few weeks in March and October/November, while the United Kingdom and mainland Chile could be five hours apart during the northern summer, three hours during the southern summer, and four hours a few weeks per year. Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.[42] Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, almost two-thirds of the year.[43] Moreover, the beginning and ending dates are roughly reversed between the northern and southern hemispheres because spring and autumn are displaced six months. For example, mainland Chile observes DST from the second Saturday in October to the second Saturday in March, with transitions at 24:00 local time.[44] In some countries time is governed by regional jurisdictions within the country so that some jurisdictions shift and others do not; this is currently the case in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.[45][46]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Wednesday March 06 2019, @01:55AM (1 child)
Daylight Saving was not created to save fuel. It was created to 'normalise' the time that the sun comes up each day. This was largely irrelevant in the pre-industrial era - people got up with the sun and did their work. That meant they woke up earlier in Summer and later in Winter. Once set working hours were introduced (e.g. 9-5), people noticed that it was harder to consistently get up at the same time each day. Turns out, your body attunes fairly finely with sunrise (it either consistently likes to wake up just before, just after, well after etc).
By introducing Daylight Saving, sunrise is shifted back closer to a person's typical "winter" waking hours (i.e. you have moved working hours back to be closer to dawn during summer so that there is roughly the same amount of time between dawn and 'start of work' through the year) . This has the added effect of providing extra post-work sunlight hours, but that's not the intent.
(Score: 2) by SemperOSS on Wednesday March 06 2019, @12:31PM
Not historically, really. DST may not have been proposed by Hudson or Willett as a means to save fuel, but the first adoption of it was by Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, and the reason for it was to save coal, i.e. fuel.
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Maybe I should add a sarcasm warning now and again?