"Permanent" DST

Tue Mar 15 20:16:32 UTC 2022

WaPo has a been there done that item today.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:11 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would
>
> 1) Cancel DST permanently, and
> 2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east.
>
> My opinion of this ought to be obvious from my rhetoric.  Hopefully, it
> will
> fail, because it's likely to be the end of rational time worldwide, and
> even
> if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult.
>
> I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on...
>
> Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their
> decision on this engineering construct.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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