Year around daylight?

[question everything]

The House was expected to vote on it Thursday. Did it?

Yes.

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Daylight saving time would stay in effect year-round under a U.S. House proposal that advanced on Thursday, reviving an idea that Americans weary of biannual clock switching have long supported but has repeatedly fizzled in Congress.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act, which would likely implement the change as part of a five-year transportation bill.

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The bill still must pass the full U.S. House, and then the U.S. Senate would consider whether to take up the measure, which faces opposition from Republican Tom Cotton and others.

Cotton has said it would result in absurdly late winter sunrises and force children to go to school in darkness in much of the country. The law would allow states to opt out.

Representative Vern Buchanan, who has put forward the idea every year since 2018, proposed it again this year. The plan is popular in the lawmaker’s home state of Florida because it would allow more evening hours of play on golf courses and sports fields.

https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/us-lawmakers-propose-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent-again-4705680

Always Florida..

[UpInArms]

1. I don't care which one they pick

I just want to stop changing the clock and screwing up my biorhythms

(And, everyone else’s)

[The Madcap]

2. I prefer daylight at the end of the day, especially in Winter.

But now that I'm retired, it doesn't matter quite as much.

[Eugene]

3. The US tried it in 1974, and it was a mixed bag.

I remember sunrise at 8 a.m. as school was starting (suburban Boston).

If the clock won't change, it may make sense to move the schedules.

[dweller]

4. No final vote

In the house .

✌🏻

[odins folly]

5. What I don't get

Is why set Daylight Saving as the set time instead of the actual meridian based time zone??

That would be how countries without DST act, but then again it’s morons in congress so….

[Raftergirl]

6. I would love DST all year. It's very depressing in winter when it's dark by 4pm.

[question everything]

8. But for the upper midwest sunrise will be at 9:00 am. And it is more dangerous for kids going to school

danger vs. depressing…

It was determined that it is healthier to have standard daylight year around.

[FascismIsDeath]

10. I'm in the midwest and school starts around 8am, there are already kids walking to school in the dark.

For that matter, I had to walk to the bus stop before sunrise when I was a kid, had to be there by 7:15am.

I don't know what time schools start where you are but 9am seems unusually late, either way the "danger" you speak of, already widely exists.

[FascismIsDeath]

11. I'm with you. We are mostly artificially locked into a 9-5 world.

So that perceived extra hour of sunlight would do wonders for my seasonal depression.

[Coventina]

7. Arizona never uses DST

[question everything]

9. More from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine:

daylight saving time is less aligned with human circadian biology—which, due to the impacts of the delayed natural light/dark cycle on human activity, could result in circadian misalignment, which has been associated in some studies with increased cardiovascular disease risk, metabolic syndrome and other health risks.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.5664/jcsm.8780