US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by _greim_ on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:43PM (#30691400)

> There's a pro-DST lobby because more post-work daylight hours is correlated with higher consumer spending. For that reason, permanent DST is more politically expedient in relation to permanent standard time.

You're probably overthinking this. Not every government action is a five-level Machiavellian scheme. Sometimes overwhelming public sentiment carries the day.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by KerrAvon on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:49PM (#30691491)

Rubio literally said they did this after talking with airline/hospitality lobbyists.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by asdff on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:24PM (#30693280)

I believe he mentioned that when citing the delay until 2023 to give these industries time to update their systems

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by throitallaway on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:59PM (#30691621)

To be fair, economic incentives seem to be what drives most decisions.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1050492391/daylight-saving-ti...

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by aiisjustanif on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:54PM (#30692315)

I wish we could change the phrase “economic incentive”.

At the very essence of Economics it is the focus on actions human beings, fundamentally trade and labor. And it seeks the most optimal level of benefit or utility for humans.

This is an incentive for companies, not necessarily humanity.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by throitallaway on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:14PM (#30692594)

Corporations are people, my friend. At least in the US.

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