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/
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:47AM (1 child)
It will actually happen 4 times [wikipedia.org] somewhere around the globe (there are 4 moments when there exist places on earth experiencing an exact 24 h solar noon day).
In a given particular location, it may not happen in a life-time - the solar year is not an exact multiple of solar days - the longitude where those 4 exact times happen will "wander" slowly across the globe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @09:56PM
But it will happen only 2 times where Runaway lives. If you read the rest of my comment, keeping him inside the other days of the year was the objective.