BREAKING: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly considering ending daylight savings time as a part of the Department of Government Efficiency, per Forbes.
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At this point I'm just thinking so away with having to adjust the clocks one way or another, my internal clock will eventually self adjust I just don't wanna mess with it anymore
They're already doing it in darkness.
I lived in Iceland for 3 years as a kid. In the winter, yeah, it's dark until like 10 AM. It was fine.
In Oregon, as a high schooler, I'd be waiting for the bus when the sun was just barely peeking over the horizon.
Daylight savings isn’t my concern. It's that Trump appears to have promised Musk the federal authority to override control over a practice traditionally handled by states unilaterally.
May be one of the only good ideas they have ...except
(1) permanent daylight savings time would be much better than permanent standard time (for me anyway!) and
(2) how could they possibly have the authority to do this ... have they forgotten about how laws are made in the United States?
That means that in the winter, kids in the northern states would have to wait for the bus in the dark in the morning. Do we want to protect children, or not?
Like true bureaucrats, they had to create a whole new level of bureaucracy outside of the bureaucracy (a bureaucracy inception if you will) to achieve what any good administrator would do if given the time and resources in their own department
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Permanent DST gives me an extra hour of daylight in the evening at the cost of an hour in the morning. I'd MUCH rather have daylight in the evening.
I hate that it's currently 5:10 PM and it's pitch black outside.
I lived in Iceland for 3 years as a kid. In the winter, yeah, it's dark until like 10 AM. It was fine.
In Oregon, as a high schooler, I'd be waiting for the bus when the sun was just barely peeking over the horizon.
Lets go on DST permanently!
(1) permanent daylight savings time would be much better than permanent standard time (for me anyway!) and
(2) how could they possibly have the authority to do this ... have they forgotten about how laws are made in the United States?
It can be done, but will require new schedules. I.e school starts at 10am for some, 7am for others.
Same with work.
The biggest cost, honestly, is having to listen to people whinge about how thrown off they are.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=emZ4zcLvP9I
I’m on board with congressional term limits and prohibitions on stock trading, too, but I doubt that will happen either.