US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Etherlord87 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:39PM (#30692876)

In Poland, trains literally stop for an hour when switching to standard time. Since it's during the night, it's not many trains, but still, people literally have to wait an hour, making their travel an hour longer, because of the time change. It happened to me once, I was robbed of an hour of my life due to this ridiculousness.

Granted, time switching doesn't directly force trains to stop, but I imagine the risks related to the time change or just travelers' confusion is the reason why that happens.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by II2II on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:08PM (#30693142)

Does this mean that trains teleport to their expected position during the switch to daylight savings time? If so, the entire world should be in awe of the technological prowess of Poland (and perhaps a bit dismayed at how they apply that technology).

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Etherlord87 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:30AM (#30697523)

There's a problem with your proposal: What if there's a station, where the train is supposed to arrive at 2:30? Teleporting would make it skip the station, and I imagine it's one of the reasons why trains don't do that in Poland.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by swader999 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:44PM (#30692936)

Good thing you didn't fly.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Etherlord87 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:12AM (#30697413)

I imagine if the same reasoning was applied to planes, which is weighing against each-other the effects of the transport vehicle stopping and the results of updating the schedule, in this case the latter option would be considered more optimal.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by bobthepanda on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:46PM (#30695098)

What time is the change?

In the US it's normally 0200/0300 to minimize the amount of people actually affected. (When we fall back on Sunday mornings the boozy crowd treats it as an extra hour to keep partying.)

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Etherlord87 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:29AM (#30697514)

According to the newest ordinance [1] with the "pending" status (not sure what's the reasoning behind delaying this ordinance's effective date until a few days before the first time change, I guess no one knows):

Year 2022 – 30 October,

Year 2023 – 29 October,

Year 2024 – 27 October,

Year 2025 – 26 October,

Year 2026 – 25 October.

Every time it's the same hour 3:00 CET / 1:00 UTC. Which means that the hour 3:00 shouldn't display on the clocks, because the Summer time ended, and so 2a:00 displays instead (the "a" is supposed to be displayed till, and including, 3a:00, after which 3:01 should be displayed without "a").

[1] http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU202200...

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