Re: "Permanent" DST

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> 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 () 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 () 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 () 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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