"Permanent" DST

Tue Mar 15 21:32:32 UTC 2022

>
> I’m all for giving up the time change, but the standard should probably
> still be UTC offset.
>

That's literally what the text of the bill does.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:08 PM Eric Tykwinski <eric-list at truenet.com>
wrote:

> What I don’t understand, is why change time, just change working hours.
> I’m all for giving up the time change, but the standard should probably
> still be UTC offset.
> If you work 9-5, change it to 10-6.  Every company can post working hours
> on their website.
> Obviously for most of us, it’s a moot point.
>
> P.S.  Anyone working at NIST or a similar org probably needs a raise for
> dealing with all the exceptions.
>
> On Mar 15, 2022, at 4:16 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> 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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