"Permanent" DST

Tue Mar 15 22:29:34 UTC 2022

And here's the NPR story which leads with "the Senate passed a bill":

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086773840/daylight-saving-time-permanent-senate

I really don't know why that site does not list it, because it certainly should. But here you are.

On March 15, 2022 6:07:36 PM EDT, Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
>Please provide a link documenting this claim.
>
>I have been reviewing the actions listed on congress.gov, and this is not
>an action listed as having taken place.
>
>https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs
>
>The last action shown for this bill was taken on March 9th, 2021, more than
>a year ago.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Matt
>
>On Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:14 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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