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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, @08:36PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @08:36PM (#825501)

    now, convince 200 million people to agree - on anything

    What's the other 127 million, chopped liver?

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:04AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:04AM (#825613) Journal

    Lemme guess: not at the voting age or in prisons? (large grin)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @09:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @09:59PM (#825958)

    What's the other 127 million, chopped liver?

    Ineligible to vote. Perhaps not a citizen, or of voting age, or registered to vote, or lost their right to vote due to a conviction. There are probably a few other possibilities as well.