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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS - QUESTION

Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:01:55 GMT

I'm pretty sure everyone already knows this is the DS weekend .... "Spring Forward ... Fall Back".

My question is ... wasn't there discussions and a decision to finally end DS in the United States ... even a few years down the road?

PLEASE ... nothing political. Just share what you know about this.

TIA !

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kze — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:06:58 GMT

I remember it being discussed but I don't think a decision was ever made. Doesn't Congress have to vote on it?

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shoesnbags — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:08:22 GMT

Is USA going to stop daylight saving?

Lawmakers got closer in 2022, when the Senate passed legislation that would have made daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, but it did not progress in the House, and new bipartisan legislation introduced this year isn't expected to move the needle.

3 days ago

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ninjawife — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:08:42 GMT

Back in March 2022, the senate passed a bill to end the switch and stay permanently with daylight saving time starting in 2023. However as of the fall of 2023 the bill was still hung up in the house of representatives. Just yesterday, Sen Marco Rubio who introduced the bill urged the house to pass the bill.

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Citrine1 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:40:05 GMT

My gosh, things do certainly drag on and on for years. I wish they would just pass the bill and be done with it.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:40:08 GMT

@Tinkrbl44. Lots of talk at state and national levels but no action.

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sandy53 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:42:11 GMT

It's not plural. It's Daylight Saving Time.

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KingstonMom — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:48:56 GMT

@sandy53

Thank you so much for stating the obvious....

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addtothis — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:54:02 GMT

I just told my husband I am leaving my clocks alone. I am tired of this nonsense!!!!

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Icegoddess — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:59:25 GMT

They talk about it every year.

I'd rather stay with Standard time if we're not going to switch back and forth. I hate getting up in the dark and it's still dark when the school buses run. At least we get a reprieve for awhile when we change back to Standard time. They already messed things up when they changed WHEN the changes were made many years back.

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Sooner — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:23:50 GMT

YES TO DST!!!! I love having more light in my day, more time to accomplish things and see the sun.

It was awful when I worked and got out of the office in the dark. I had errands to run, groceries to buy, shopping to do--all in the creepy dark!

I am sad every year because fall itself is gloomy enough without this added to the mix!

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Marp — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:48:32 GMT

I'm all for halting the time changes but would vote for permanent standard time. This morning sunrise was at 7:56; I'm looking forward to tomorrow's sunrise at 6:57.

As a reminder/FYI: Amid an energy crisis in 1973, former President Richard Nixon signed a bill putting the U.S. on daylight saving time starting in January 1974. While the American public at first liked the idea, soon "the experiment ... ran afoul of public opinion," The New York Times reported in October 1974. Sunrises that could be as late as 9:30 a.m. some places in parts of winter became increasingly unpopular. It didn't take long for Congress to reverse course in October 1974.

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Meowingkitty — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:43:37 GMT

So glad our state doesn't participate. The last thing we need in summer is another hour of sunlight. What I hate is all my shows will now be an hour later.

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RedTop — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 01:13:43 GMT

Since retiring, I realize my body functions best on DST.

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sunshine45 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:32:24 GMT

i am all for permanent STANDARD time!

lets get rid of this changing time nonsense.

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smoochy — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:57:05 GMT

once again I'm about to experience the weird disconnect of darkness at five pm- yet the weather is in the eighties, grass is green, palm trees swaying. So it seems like it's summer. But it's dark like winter. My brain is about to explode 🤯 😆

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781Florist — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 04:15:03 GMT

Very recently in Great Britain doctors affirmed the position that Standard Time is beneficial to the human body because DST messes with the Circadian Rythm of our bodies.

They advocate for the return to Standard Time on a permanent basis.

I believe that there have been a number of American medical professionals who have expressed the same opinion in recent years.

This differing evidence and opinion is most likely the reason why legislation to make DST permanent has not gained traction.

Hopefully (as a fan of Fall, night, and things traditional...)

we will get the return to a permanent time setting in favor of Standard Time.

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addtothis — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 04:40:05 GMT

I just think no matter what just leave the clocks alone!! I know back decades ago the time was changed for the farmers and I get that but with the technology that they have today it is not needed. Please understand. Thank you all.

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mrshckynut — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 05:05:15 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 i heard there was a bill written by a senator that didn't make it to the floor for a vote i personally hate dst and wish all states were on standard time

mrshckynut

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bikerbabe — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 06:18:32 GMT

I have a problem with kids walking to school in the morning in the dark. It’s ridiculous for it not to be light until 8:30-9AM in some areas of the country.

Does everyone remember we tried permanent DST in 1974 and it didn’t work well over the winter months?