Re:Sleep experts say Senate is wrong: Standard time, not DST...
by taejo on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:07AM
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Aren't the boundaries of time zones federally defined? Does this bill change that? My understanding previously was that the only choice states had was between summer DST and year-round standard time. Otherwise California could have switched to year-round Mountain Standard Time instead of lobbying Congress for year-round Pacific Saving Time.
Re:Sleep experts say Senate is wrong: Standard time, not DST...
by thehappypm on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:34PM
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I think states haven’t switched to year round times (except Arizona) because it’s weirdly better to be in sync with the changes.
New England has a compact to move ahead one time zone and abolish the clock changes, moving from Eastern to Atlantic zone, if all the states agree. That’s basically identical to year round DST. But if the rest of the Northeast stayed on Eastern with clock changes, New England would have a different time zone for 4 months out of the year, which is kind of weird and awkward. It’d be easier if Boston and New York were either in the same time zone, or 1 hour apart, but being different sometimes sounds like a mess.
Maybe California wanted to avoid that.
Once we abolish the changing of the clocks we’ve gotten rid of a societal menace.
Then, any state can switch to whatever time zone they want. If the Pacific states want to move an hour, go for it! Just so long as none of us need to move our clocks twice a year.
It literally doesn’t matter if we decide on Standard or Daylight time. Daylight seems to be the preference of the East Coast. If some states on the western edge of their time zones don’t like it they can move 1 over on their own. We need to abolish the nationwide clock changes because they’re nonsense.