US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by HideousKojima on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:25PM (#30691110)

The problem is that there are three options:

1) Permanent DST 2) Permanent Standard Time 3) Status Quo

And the problem is that, at least based on what I've gathered anecdotally from speaking to people and from which side the media pushes, preferences are usually 1-2-3, followed by 2-1-3, followed by 2-3-1, with anyone who prefers the status quo in dead last.

Personally I prefer standard time to DST as well, but we don't really have any power to make that decision.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by tempestn on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:44PM (#30692196)

I must be a weirdo with my 1-3-2 preference then! I hate the time change, but I'd hate to give up evening sunlight even more.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by colinmhayes on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:40PM (#30693855)

I could not stand a permanent standard time. The sun would rise at 4:15 in the summer. The sun already rises way to early in the summer, making it even earlier would be unimaginable.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by sschueller on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:24PM (#30691930)

What about a 30 min shift? There are already time zone that are shifted by 30min.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by DangitBobby on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:29PM (#30692785)

Seems like it would make much more sense for locales to add their own timezones then to try to globally split the difference.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by HideousKojima on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:50PM (#30692263)

I'm guessing that would be crazy unpopular (for Americans at least) but I'm not sure. I actually had a 30 minute shifted timezone bite me last week, I ended up being 30 minutes late to a conference call with our team in Mumbai

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