Posted By: NORML as can be
It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 08:38 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/senate-passes-bill-daylight-savings-191651195.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall In a surprise move on Tuesday, the Senate passed legislation making daylight saving time, which began this week, permanent for the entire United States.
The bill, titled the “Sunshine Protection Act,” was co-sponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). It passed unanimously.
Rubio cited increased heart attacks and car accidents during standard time as reasons the country should do away with clock-switching, in addition to people enjoying more sunlight at the end of the day for things like sports.
“Pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come,” Rubio said Tuesday as he asked the Senate to pass the bill.
Posted By: OTL91
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 08:55 PM
This would be awesome. Would let me wake up later to go duck hunting. Get in a few more after work hunts. Have time to do chores in the afternoon.
Posted By: bill oxner
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 08:57 PM
Oh my look at the time. Wow. Just wow.
Posted By: Stub
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 08:57 PM
Not law yet but hopefully it will be
Gustaf Kilander
Tue, March 15, 2022, 2:16 PM·3 min read
The US Senate has passed a bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent.
The Sunshine Protection Act was passed by unanimous consent on Tuesday.
“I’m hoping that after today, [the bill] will go over to the House, they’ll act quickly on it. I know it’s not one of the most important issues confronting America, but it’s one of those issues where there’s a lot of agreement. And I think a lot do people wonder why it took so long to get here,” Mr Rubio added.
The Florida Senator said that if the bill is passed in the House and signed by President Joe Biden, the change would be delayed to November 2023 because “the airlines, the rails, transportation methods, others, have already built out schedules based on the existing ... timeline”.
“The good thing is that if we can get this passed, we don’t have to keep doing this stupidity anymore ... pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come,” Mr Rubio quipped in conclusion.
Posted By: J.G.
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:05 PM
Because not doing it is stupid.
Kids ain't milking cows before school anymore. Letting everyone have a later sunrise, and later sunset is a good thing. It's at least better than what we are doing.
That December 21, dark at 5:20 pm is terrible!
Posted By: MeanGreen85
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:05 PM
Does this require bipartisan support to pass? Because I have zero faith in that actually happening.
Posted By: Texan Til I Die
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:07 PM
I'm all in favor of DST year round, but the teachers unions may kill it. I'm not sure what their reasoning is, but they've opposed it in the past and they're one of the democrat's biggest special interest groups (also called donors).
Posted By: texasag93
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:10 PM
Because not doing it is stupid.
Kids ain't milking cows before school anymore. Letting everyone have a later sunrise, and later sunset is a good thing. It's at least better than what we are doing.
That December 21, dark at 5:20 pm is terrible!
I lived in Ohio for 6 years. Sun rising at 3:30 AM in the summer sucked. Pick your poison.
I hat changing the clocks.
Posted By: Ol Thumper
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:22 PM
I’m sure some dipchit politician will carpet bomb it trying to save some rare coo coo bird from loosing sleep on its migration.
I pray it passes, it getting dark at 5 sucks
Posted By: Big_Country01
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:22 PM
It makes sense to pass it, which leads me to believe that it is not going to pass.
Posted By: GusWayne
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:31 PM
I can't think of anybody who likes times change, yet we cant change it
A small taste of Government at work
Maybe we will finally get rid of it
Posted By: Simple Searcher
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:51 PM
So if this passes there will be no more switching back to standard time in the winter. I like light in the morning. I would prefer standard time.
Posted By: unclebubba
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:54 PM
I could care less if we do DST or standard time. I just don't want to switch back and forth all the damn time!
Posted By: GUTIT
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 09:59 PM
It makes sense to pass it, which leads me to believe that it is not going to pass.
One of the truest posts made on the THF.
Posted By: flintknapper
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 10:00 PM
As long as Trump doesn't say he likes it or is in support of it.....it will have a chance to pass.
Otherwise....Dems will kill it (just because).
Posted By: JCB
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 10:15 PM
This means we wont have to reset the clocks on our feeders ever again!!
Posted By: texasag93
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 10:38 PM
This means we wont have to reset the clocks on our feeders ever again!!
Those deer and hogs need to know when to show up.
The cows never leave.
Posted By: reeltexan
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/15/22 11:08 PM
Just what I've asked for, going on 40 years.
Posted By: angus1956
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 12:22 AM
Somewhere this will be racist, won't set well with LGBQ community, illegal aliens won't go for it, American Indians will be upset, white privilege people will be blamed and the list goes on and on.
Posted By: Ranch Dawg
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 04:10 AM
Great ! But dip stick biden will F it up.
Posted By: TCM3
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 04:31 AM
WHAT. how the Frick did I miss that
Lock or delete... or whatever the Rulers see fit.. but maybe let Bill post a reply first.
Posted By: HS2
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 05:14 AM
I dunno. That extra hour of daylight always causes drought in the summer. 🤓
Posted By: Simple Searcher
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 11:25 AM
This means we wont have to reset the clocks on our feeders ever again!!
Those deer and hogs need to know when to show up.
The cows never leave.
We had a guy at the lease that was hell bent on changing the feeder times when we return to regular time in the fall. He would call me and ask me to change them if he couldn't make it. He was afraid that the feeders would be feeding in the middle of the night, what a goober.
Posted By: hook_n_line
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 12:02 PM
"Only a paleface would think that cutting off 2 inches on one end of a blanket and sewing it on to the other end would make it longer”
Posted By: yotehater
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 12:13 PM
Just set your friken clock for the time you need. duh huh
Posted By: nak
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 12:55 PM
Just pick one and stick with it
Posted By: texasag93
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 01:01 PM
This is a topic worth repeating.
Posted By: Choctaw
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 05:42 PM
"Only a paleface would think that cutting off 2 inches on one end of a blanket and sewing it on to the other end would make it longer”
Yeah, those white boys sure do come up with some strange notions.
Posted By: Stump_jumper
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 07:55 PM
This means we wont have to reset the clocks on our feeders ever again!!
We never do. We just leave them on CST. Time does not matter. Only sunrise/sunset matters. I have one clock and my thermostat that switch automatically. This means I will have to change 2 versus 6.
Posted By: don k
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/16/22 10:42 PM
I wish they made regular time permanent.
Posted By: Simple Searcher
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/17/22 01:20 AM
Adding an hour in the morning would put sunrise at about 8:15 - 8:30 in the colder months. That is here in San Antonio, northern states you can add to that. That would suck. And that is what got this idea removed when they tried this in the mid '70s. If I understand correctly.
Posted By: Stump_jumper
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/17/22 01:29 AM
I wish they made regular time permanent.
Not me. It is hard enough to get up at 4:00 to make the drive to Texoma.
Posted By: FamousAmos
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/17/22 04:30 PM
Why not split the difference and move the time back 1/2 hour this fall and leave it there year round?
Posted By: Ol Thumper
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/17/22 04:42 PM
Why not split the difference and move the time back 1/2 hour this fall and leave it there year round?
Honestly this would be the best idea to me as well but getting lifer politicians to agree on something this simple would have about as much luck as having Colt 45 leave and never come back. Some things are simply to much to ask for,
Posted By: TurkeyHunter
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/17/22 04:55 PM
Why not split the difference and move the time back 1/2 hour this fall and leave it there year round?
Honestly this would be the best idea to me as well but getting lifer politicians to agree on something this simple would have about as much luck as having Colt 45 leave and never come back. Some things are simply to much to ask for,
It would make us quite weird in the world time zone sequence.
Posted By: glens
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/18/22 12:00 AM
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I lived in Ohio for 6 years. Sun rising at 3:30 AM in the summer sucked. Pick your poison.
I hat changing the clocks.
Sun rising at 3:30 AM ??? You talking about Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight or Astronomical Twilight??
Think I'll ask Bill.
Posted By: OneK
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/18/22 12:25 AM
Adding an hour in the morning would put sunrise at about 8:15 - 8:30 in the colder months. That is here in San Antonio, northern states you can add to that. That would suck. And that is what got this idea removed when they tried this in the mid '70s. If I understand correctly.
This and people were running over kids walking to school in the dark.
Posted By: joebass2
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/18/22 03:30 PM
I dunno. That extra hour of daylight always causes drought in the summer. 🤓
Yep, and my uncle always claimed his corn grew faster with that extra hour of sunlight.........
Posted By: GNTX
Re: It's Permanent They Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent - 03/18/22 05:32 PM
Because not doing it is stupid.
Kids ain't milking cows before school anymore. Letting everyone have a later sunrise, and later sunset is a good thing. It's at least better than what we are doing.
That December 21, dark at 5:20 pm is terrible!
This. 100%. People doing a normal workday in the winter go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Having daylight left over in the evening will be very beneficial. Other places, such as golf courses will benefit from the later sunset.
I sure hope it passes.