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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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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday April 07 2019, @06:55PM
Not doing daylight saving time won't make that happen. Only elimination of time zones and having clocks vary by several minutes from one side of a city to the other will achieve your preference.
Of course, a lot of people would just guesstimate or set their clock to whatever the TV or radio stations says (even though that would be off by a few minutes).
There would be some benefits, of course. Bosses and others who blow their stack as soon as the second hand ticks past the appointed time would either have to stop or stroke out and leave reasonable people alone.