Senate Passes Sunshine Protection Act

[Milchshake]

The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.

If this clears the House, no more changing the clocks twice a year.

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted by supporters advocating brighter afternoons and more economic activity.

The Senate approved the measure, called the Sunshine Protection Act, unanimously by voice vote. The House of Representatives, which has held a committee hearing on the matter, still must pass the bill before it can go to President Joe Biden to sign. The White House has not said whether Biden supports it.

On Sunday, most of the United States resumed daylight saving time, moving ahead one hour. The United States will resume standard time in November.


Good news for people that enjoy more sunlight in the afternoon. Leaving more time for activities, like playin on the grass with friends.

[D3thray]

I like it. I like it a lot. Couldn’t have come soon enough.

[Endus]

There is literally no purpose to DST. There was, in an era before widespread electric lighting in factories and homes, but that hasn't been true for like a century.

And it kills people. The time shift correlates with an increase in vehicular accidents, from people having their schedules interrupted.

It's way past time it was abolished (rendering it permanent is the same thing, the issue is the changing back and forth twice a year not the specific hourly cycle you use).

[Poopymonster]

The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.

If this clears the House, no more changing the clocks twice a year.

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted by supporters advocating brighter afternoons and more economic activity.

The Senate approved the measure, called the Sunshine Protection Act, unanimously by voice vote. The House of Representatives, which has held a committee hearing on the matter, still must pass the bill before it can go to President Joe Biden to sign. The White House has not said whether Biden supports it.

On Sunday, most of the United States resumed daylight saving time, moving ahead one hour. The United States will resume standard time in November.


Good news for people that enjoy more sunlight in the afternoon. Leaving more time for activities, like playin on the grass with friends.

I recall my early 20s around my birthday, going across the Blue Water Bridge to Sarnia to drink because the US dollar went farther. I wanna say the club was the Campbell Street Station. At 1:30AM they'd do "last call.", they set the clocks back just before 2AM due to daylight savings. At the second 1:30AM they'd then do "Last call, for real".

[Shadowferal]

So...this translates to dawn coming later as the year gets colder. Sunrise around 9ish by December I think.

[Slirith]

Whoever voted yes on this needs to have their mental stability checked.

[Santti]

Yeah, it's not a good idea to have it anymore.



The name reminded me of the "Sunshine Units", and was left a little worried, at first.

[DarkTZeratul]

The name is ridiculous, but this is unambiguously a good thing. Good on them for actually passing useful legislation for once.

[Calfredd]

Whoever voted yes on this needs to have their mental stability checked.

Without explaining why you just come off as a contrarian.

[shimerra]

Without explaining why you just come off as a complete idiot. And maybe also a contrarian .

Fixed that for you. Seriously the time swap is something people with more than two brain cells rattling around in their skull got rid of or wanted to for a long time.


As Endus pointed out the purposes of the change has long since been fixed by technology and now it causes harm not good.

[Shadowferal]

This was changed in 2007 when GWB lengthened dst by 4-5 weeks.

[Daymanmb]

The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.

If this clears the House, no more changing the clocks twice a year.

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted by supporters advocating brighter afternoons and more economic activity.

The Senate approved the measure, called the Sunshine Protection Act, unanimously by voice vote. The House of Representatives, which has held a committee hearing on the matter, still must pass the bill before it can go to President Joe Biden to sign. The White House has not said whether Biden supports it.

On Sunday, most of the United States resumed daylight saving time, moving ahead one hour. The United States will resume standard time in November.


Good news for people that enjoy more sunlight in the afternoon. Leaving more time for activities, like playin on the grass with friends.

Glad theyre going with DST and not standard time. Was worried any permanent changes would be in favour of standard time.

[Paranoid Android]

It's funny. When Rubio moronically tweeted, Instagram Zelensky meeting on Zoom, I was about to rip into this idiot with"What has he ever done in the Senate". Well now I see the great statesman in action

[Shadowferal]

Well now I see the great statesman in action

We all...well, most of us, have a moment of genius every once in a blue moon.

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Great, lets see if the House decides to fuck it up before we start celebrating though.

[PACOX]

Just highlights how we can't really get anything done but meaningless nonsense.

[postman1782]

Whoever voted yes on this needs to have their mental stability checked.

Tell me, why do we still need daylight savings time? It was coined by Benjamin Franklin, to help farmers back in colonial times, to help them for their crops during the summer months. There really is no reason to keep it now that we have tractors and combines instead of horse and buggies with a single row horse drawn plow.

[DarkTZeratul]

Tell me, why do we still need daylight savings time? It was coined by Benjamin Franklin, to help farmers back in colonial times, to help them for their crops during the summer months. There really is no reason to keep it now that we have tractors and combines instead of horse and buggies with a single row horse drawn plow.

That's not even why we do it (Ben Franklin suggested the idea in satire, along with several other ridiculous notions). We do it because during World War I, Germany instituted it to save fuel, and then everyone else did too, and we've all continued doing it since.

[Ayirasi]

Yes, please. Dark at 4:30pm is dumb.

[masterhorus8]

Whoever voted yes on this needs to have their mental stability checked.

I'm not quite sure you understand what this bill means.

It's not that it'll be changing all the time, just that it'll always be GMT -7/-6/-5.