James Lankford cites a veteran as partial reason for recommitting to Sunshine Protection Act, which has already passed in Senate
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Omg, please for the love of everything, get rid of the time change.
I don't care which way they pick, just get rid of it. It's absolutely useless.
This is why it's an issue, because which side of a timezone you live on doesn't split down party lines.
For example when we set the clocks back it gets dark at 430 and this week if the first time I've seen sunlight outside of the time I'm in the office in months.
Anybody who supports a bill that would make it so I don't see the sun after 5 pm from October till June is worse than dead to me.
The thing about this argument though is that what time we call the particular position of the Sun in the sky is up to us, and the way we schedule our lives around those times is also up to us.
If what is problematic to you about locking in either DT or ST is the way your work or school schedule interacts with it, change those schedules.
Or put another way if it's more important to you that sunlight time lines up with your arbitrarily imposed schedule is more important to you than the health & safety of your fellow Americans, you're "worse than dead" to us.
and the way we schedule our lives around those times is also up to us.
This is some r/im14andthisisdeep shit
Tell my boss time is just a social construct and you might have an argument.
Or put another way if it's more important to you that sunlight time lines up with your arbitrarily imposed schedule is more important to you than the health & safety of your fellow Americans, you're "worse than dead" to us.
Except that it also fucks over everybody else who is on the same "arbitrarilly enforced schedule" (which happens to be about 90% of working adults) and this isnt me being selfish in spite of everybody else. Being able to conceivably leave the house outside of the 9 to 5 working schedule is pretty universally popular.
Seriously wtf are you arguing for. How is it being dark on my commute to work, after I drop off my kids at school and also being dark when I drive home from work "safer for evwrybody"
Kids come home from school between 3 and 4 even with extracurricular, literally rhe only people the eveinging time change affects is working adults.
I know of several large corporations that allow "summer schedules" for their workers. It wouldn't be hard to have four seasonal schedules.
Don't do it. Daylight savings time saves 366 lives a year from traffic accidents alone Coate and Markowitz which while isn't that much is still worth the inconvenience.
Also, 2015 paper from the Brookings Institute claims a 7% drop in crime, when they extended by 4 weeks, we saved 60 million dollars. If we account for indirect costs like those of murder, rape, we get 246 million saved (Popular Mechanics)
Basically more light is good
