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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time

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.

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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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:23PM (4 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:23PM (#825544)

    I like where you're going. Too bad we divvied up the day into 24 hours. Time for metric time! There has been thought that way, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time [wikipedia.org] but I'm not so sure about that.

    I say: 100 time zones, using 100 Mours per day. A mour would be 14.4 current minutes. 10 decimours per mour would give 1.44 minutes per decimour (86.4 seconds). 10 centimours per decimour would be 8.64 seconds per centimour, and the millimour (also called "mecond") would be 0.864 seconds.

    It'll cause chaos and confusion, give people lots to do, and in 100 years they'll thank us.

    And I'm not sure if I'm serious or not. 50 time zones would be ideal, but not as metric...

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  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:07AM (1 child)

    by deimtee (3272) on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:07AM (#825554) Journal

    I like the idea of metric time, but changing the length of the second would be a major pain. How about we slow the rotation of the planet until your idea of metric time fits with a standard second?

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    No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday April 07 2019, @05:44AM

      by RS3 (6367) on Sunday April 07 2019, @05:44AM (#825669)

      Earth is slowing- I'll just wait it out.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:11AM (#825615)

    It'll cause chaos and confusion, give people lots to do, and in 100 years they'll thank us.

    With a few backwater countries still measuring the distances in miles, sizes in inches and feet, temperature in Fahrenheit a.s.o. I fear your proposal will go the way of the dodo.

    Next one, are you going to propose measuring the angles in radians?

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday April 07 2019, @05:22AM

      by RS3 (6367) on Sunday April 07 2019, @05:22AM (#825661)

      Gradians.