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on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:11PM
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
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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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:34PM (1 child)
5:50AM? Wow that's INSANE!! Fortunately I've been reading serious sane talk about opening schools 1 hour later- mainly because kids aren't getting enough sleep, therefore not learning. And it would obviate the need for the stupid clock changes.
Years ago I also read somewhere that most juvenile crime is committed between 3 and 6 PM- after school, and before parents get home. So letting school start later and get out later would be a win-win.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:14AM
Our county runs double shifts with the buses - High School starts at 7, if you're on a long route you get picked up before 6 - then those same buses go back out and pick up Middle School kids so they can start at 9-9:30.
It's the same kind of cost cutting thinking that starts lunch at 10:30 for some kids, rolling through 1:00pm for others, just so you can have one tiny cafeteria serve 3000 kids on a mega-campus.
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