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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:It just needs to stop (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:34AM

  by c0lo (156) on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:34AM (#825604) Journal

  As the length of daylight time changes throughout the year, the sunrise and sunset times stay pretty much symmetrical around noon. The sun appears lower in the sky in winter, but its peak is still "noon", 1/2 way between sunrise and sunset.

  If this is you definition for noon (which is called the solar noon [wikipedia.org]), you are willing to accept that the time between two successive noons (the solar noon day) will vary through the year - see? the Earth orbit is elliptical.

  Even more, there will be only one longitude that will see an exact 24h solar noonday (and the antimeridian will experience an exact 24 solar midnight day). And this longitude will vary from one year to the other - the year not being an exact multiple of days.

  All year long, every day. There's a slight variation for a couple of weeks around the solstices, but it's only a few minutes.

  There are 4 days in a year when one solar noon day is the closest to 24 h: 11 Feb, 13 May, 25 Jul and 3 Nov.

  There are 2 days when the solar noon day is the longest: around 20 Jun with 13s longer, and 21 Dec with 30s longer.
  There are 2 days when the solar noon day is the shortest: around 25 Mar - 18s shorter - and 13 Sep is 22s shorter.

  _{Ummm... you were saying... "Better ..." what?}

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