Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. end it, too?

Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by radicality on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:55PM (#39656816)

I know little of California politics. How do these propositions work / not work ? 60% voted yes, 7M people. For a yes/no vote like this, what’s even the point of holding such a referendum if its result is not guaranteed to be implemented? Apparently it complied with federal law, but was held back because of… I don’t really understand what, but feels undemocratic for the result to be just ignored.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by toast0 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @12:31AM (#39656947)

This one is, IMHO, particularly meaningless.

It allows the California legislature to adopt permanent DST, if the federal law allows it. But the federal law currently allows seasonal DST or permanent standard time, not permanent DST.

Perhaps, it's useful because 1949's proposition 12 adopted DST in California, but it was superceeded by federal law in 1966; and maybe it wasn't clear if the California legislature could legislate against the will of the people as expressed in 1949; in general, the CA legislature can't overturn voter propositions.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by opello on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:01AM (#39657036)

There was an interesting "hack" of changing time zones at the time change points instead of trying to adopt permanent DST, instead of a trigger law for if/when federal law allows permanent DST.

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Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e... by culopatin on Sunday March 10, 2024 @12:33PM (#39660447)

And politicians are that short sighted that didn’t see this coming? If it only allows standard time as the only permanent one and we wanted a permanent why didn’t they just offer the one that would work?

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