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posted by martyb on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2019-04-04/oregon-senate-oks-permanent-daylight-saving-time

The Oregon Senate has passed a bill establishing permanent Daylight Saving Time in the state, and the Governor has signaled she supports the effort. If it passes the House (and possibly the US Congress, it is a bit ambiguous to me), it could end the semi-annual resetting of clocks which causes so much annoyance and increase of injury and deaths.

Personally speaking, I'd rather it settled on permanent Standard time than Daylight time, but as long as it is steady I think it's better than the current regime.

See also:
Texas efforts: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/05/1413228
Europe's efforts: http://fortune.com/2019/03/26/european-union-parliament-daylight-saving-time/
Mandatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1268/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:24PM (#825480)

    Depends on the job, of course. Most places I've worked, are flexible a few hours either way.

    I've just casually come in at 5am or 11am, whatever feels best, and worked my 8.

    But my job isn't 'public facing'. You're in a different bind if you're serving the public.... eg, if the store is only open 9 to 6.

    The other problem is, lots of folks want to be home to see their kids. That means, they want to leave work close to when school is out.... so for this sort, you can shift a bit, but...

    And lastly, the social aspect. People want weekends off, because friends have weekends off. They want nights off, because friends have them off....