mgarraha.bsky.social
Amateur classical musician and astronomer. Advocate for year-round standard time.
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On the motion to discharge S.J.Res.59 from the Committee on Foreign Relations:
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AMS fireball event 3455-2025
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
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1990 sculpture by Winston Bronnum, currently maintained by Jared Betts.
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Indiana observes DST statewide since 2006. NE Arizona is complicated though.
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Boston is too far west for that too. Eastern Maine could go either way.
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EST is optimal at 75°W.
Maggiolo revised his map:
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No, Boston should not observe the solar time of a place 900 miles to its east.
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Farmers asked Congress to repeal national DST in 1919. In 1920-1941 it was generally a city thing.
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Ask Sen. Cruz to allow Sen. Young's standard time amendment to S.29.
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It confuses the best of us. 7:30 EST = 8:30 EDT.
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Are you referring to this?
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Seems reasonable when nature limits the total daylight to 10 hours.
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S.J.Res.59 is now referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Understood. FWIW top of thread could be the start of a decent blues song. 🙂
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Summer morning light is harmless. DST is not.
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I also see one by Sen. Paul re: Syria. Perhaps you could cosponsor each other?
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If we treat seasonal depression with bright light in the morning, then it does not make sense to darken winter mornings.
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Transition studies cannot tell us which mode is better year round.
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We need not mess with the clock to start the day whenever it's light enough. Apologies to those with bouncers who won't let them out the bedroom door until 6.
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I have seen R's and D's on either side of the issue.
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"Wake me UP before you go go"
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Rep. Moody, shown à la Flav, voted to impose the equivalent of Central time on El Paso all winter.
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It is a puzzling choice.
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It's pro-midday-at-12. EST 12 minutes behind mean solar time is closer to that than AST 48 minutes ahead. Eastern Maine could go either way.
Given 18 hours of midsummer daylight, I'd be pro-9pm-sunset too. New England gets more like 15½.
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Instead of asking DoT to change their zone, FL enacted a law depending on a change in US law, and TX has a similar one on the governor's desk.
Meanwhile, any state can observe standard time year round, as TX, FL, and all their neighbors did until 1966.
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US time zone boundaries are administered by the Department of Transportation. States can ask DoT to change them, but DoT may find that a 500-mile discontinuity does not suit the convenience of commerce. Also CDT=EST matches mean solar time at 75°W, 1400 miles east of central Texas.
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Seattle's earliest sunset is 4:17, followed by civil twilight until 4:53. Winter DST would make it dark at 8am in January though.
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Summer evenings are pleasant regardless of clock setting.
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Ask Sen. Young.
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In 2022 Sen. Rubio asked unanimous consent to pull it out of committee and pass it without a vote. One member who might have objected was absent. Another hadn't been notified by their staff. Two days after spring-ahead, others may not have been alert enough.
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No, DST was a morning person's scheme to make us stop "wasting" summer mornings.
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UTC-5 isn't Texas time, its New Jersey/Delaware time.
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Winter is challenging. A fair share of morning light helps us get through it.
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Nor do I. Cheers.
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The other WW1 combatants had started using DST 2 years before the US. Calling it War Time was more of a WW2 thing.
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No, do tell.
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It's dead. Last day of session was May 16.
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The railroads invented standard time zones, but I don't think DST was for their benefit. In WW1 they were asked when would be the safest time to change clocks. After WW2 they sought a uniform DST schedule to end the chaos of local observances.