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We were so close a few years ago when the senate passed a bill with unanimous consent, only for the house to say fuck you and refuse to even consider it (can't have anything useful getting done).
No one could agree on what the permanent time should be, that's why it failed.
It should “spring ahead” and stay there; I want the light after work.
We did that in the '70s. Everyone hated it so much that they switched back to DST.
Just go back to normal time and be done with it. Oh, and for you specifically, just ask your work to let you start an hour earlier.
Everyone hated it because people could still make a living in the 70’s. Tim he world wasn’t as shitty.
Now, it’s be one of the few things people would be happy to have.
Nope, standard time to sync with the rest of the world. Just align work and school days to an hour earlier. Same work/school day length, just start at 6 instead of 7 year round and you’ll get your extra hour of daylight without making weird “American” time zones.
Good luck getting school and work to start an hour earlier (it’ll never happen).
You want controversial? Split the time zones in half and make them half hour (or so) increments. If the sun sets at 6 pm on the eastern side of the time zone it should also set at 6pm on the western side of the time zone.
So people doing international business have to adjust to America’s insanity. Nice.
You realize American schools and businesses already change their start times twice a year? The numbers stay the same, but the actual time doesn’t?
So people doing international business have to adjust to America’s insanity.
They already do for lots of other things. Where’s the cutoff then?
You realize American schools and businesses already change their start times twice a year?
American schools and business certainly don’t change their start times; the federal government changes the times. If left up to American businesses they’d “fall back” every day during business hours and then “spring ahead” while you slept so that they could work to death more.
The numbers stay the same, but the actual time doesn’t?
Because the only way to mandate anything like this over the size of a massive country is at the federal level. Without the federal level we’d be back to the railroad days where each town had its own time zone.
I know that the European mind can’t comprehend how large of a landmass the United States are so here’s a map of how many European countries fit into the US
The EU can barely agree on much; I doubt you’d be able to agree on this.
I thought it failed because Rs in the senate said "wait no, we passed it by mistake, don't vote on it please", and democrats in the house have them what they wanted. A favor that would never be repaid, because they are stupid
This is any group decision making in a nutshell. All the arguing over the thing that matters least.
They could've picked either and everyone would just adjust.
Tbh, the US already uses imperial instead of metric, regardless of the difficulty coordinating with other countries. We could have just split the difference and been 30 minutes offset from other countries in the same time zones.
Space in the imperial system is so much cooler!
I prefer my spaceships to not be kitbashed together. I want those exhaust vents to actually do something, when we are in atmosphere only, obviously.
The US has officially been in the metric system since the mid 70s
Exactly this. I don't care where the permanent time lands. Just make it permanent and we'll adjust.