Trump says it’s time to finally kill daylight saving time
www.independent.co.uk
The House Energy and Commerce Committee overwhelmingly approved the Sunshine Protection Act by a 48-1 vote on Thursday. If passed, the measure would likely be implemented as part of a five-year transportation bill
  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    20 hours ago

    It would genuinely be easier to change the start times of elementary schools to match the daylight hours than to make everyone change their sleep patterns twice a year.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      That’s its own beast; do you stagger the start times so that teenagers that are up the latest get proper sleep, or do you reverse it so they can take care of the younger kids?

      I would say “What the fuck teach your five year old to walk down the street or talk to your community to help them, you have utterly failed at your job as a parent if your kid has that little ability to act independently of you” But that’s why the school asked me showing up to random parent-teacher conferences.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    50·
    1 day ago

    Imagine if this becomes Trumps version of Hitlers “but he built the autobahn”. The one good thing he did that people in the future will use to make it look like he “wasnt all bad”.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    21 hours ago

    “Well, it’s Trump O’Clock now…I’ll meet you at the Gulf of America between Trump thirty and Trump 45”

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
    193·
    1 day ago

    No, give us permanent DST, during winter half the country drives home from work watching the sun set.

    Edit: wait that’s what he’s doing. Even malicious and incompetent people accidely do something good occasionally.

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
        7·
        24 hours ago

        Exactly, permanent DST buys you an extra hour of daylight in the evening, at the cost of having to do morning stuff with 1 hour earlier levels of sunlight.

          • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
            3·
            22 hours ago

            NYC is north of most of America. The earliest the sun sets is 430, itll be 530. So yeah in the absolute worst case, northern people in the dead of winter, they will drive home as the sun sets instead of at night. But later in the year and further south, it will give you meaningful time at home during daylight. I do kinda wonder if itll increase car accidents for people who drive to New Jersey after work.

            https://weatherspark.com/y/24600/Average-Weather-in-Manhattan-New-York-United-States-Year-Round

            • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
              1·
              17 hours ago

              …i think we’re talking across each other: my point is that the majority of american workers currently commute home after dark in the dead of winter (as do i at 30° latitude, with most of the population north of me), so more than half of the country don’t even see the sun set…

              • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
                1·
                16 hours ago

                I haven’t been in America for a year and a half, but the data says otherwise. Are you in a cloudy area?

                • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                  1·
                  12 hours ago

                  …how late do you think americans work?..average winter sunset is at 17.30 at 30° latitude…

  • Zier@fedia.io
    2510·
    1 day ago

    So this idiot wants DST to be the standard, instead of the actual Standard time. Typical trump fucking up a good idea. In 1974 we did this and people HATED it. The whole planet should be on Standard time. If you need to change hours so your business is open more during daylight, change your damn Winter hours, don’t expect an entire nation to change the clock.