In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?
That would suck. They went the wrong way round.
I’d rather have sunshine left when I get off work than have some first thing in the morning.
Hahaha. Almost everyone but Indiana, which used to have permanent standard time until Mitch Daniels got elected and he’d always had a bug up his ass about adopting DST. And now Indiana is like, “we ain’t goin’ back to not moving our clocks around!”
The only way it makes sense to do this is at the federal level so the whole country changes at once. Doing it at the state level is stupid, confusing and frankly just a waste of time. This country has very real and serious problems it needs to deal with, and daylight savings time is not one of them.
Read an interesting article that said insurance companies lose tons of money because of time changes. Animals supposedly get used to traffic being low/high at certain times of day (based on the sun cause they don’t have watches). So when the time changes, they keep their same routine and end up causing more accidents while crossing roads they are used to being empty.
The week after we move clocks forward in the spring, thereby “losing an hour”, there is a marked increase in car collisions and heart attacks.
It’s kinda absurd if you think about it. We’re here arguing about Standard Time vs Daylight Saving Time while people are literally dying every year due to losing sleep every spring. I wish more states would just bypass Congress and revert back to Standard Time.
I’ve spent my whole life with the time changing, I’m adapted now and expect being able to sleep in later when it stays darker out, I don’t want this to change
