[FRIAM] Obligatory (and gratuitous?) screed about time changes.

[Steve Smith]

On 11/4/22 4:14 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Didn't the sunshine act already pass? but yes I agree I despise the 
> clock change bull sh**** It takes effect next year unless Turtle neck 
> had his usual tantrum.

 From the linked article:

    /Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed bipartisan
    legislation to abolish clock changes and make daylight saving time
    permanent, beginning in 2023. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida,
    introduced////the Sunshine Protection Act
    <https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623>//,
    and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, was among the co-sponsors./

    /"Glad the Senate has passed the Sunshine Protection Act so
    Oregonians aren’t springing back & forth each year in a silly
    exercise that hurts everybody’s health & our economy," Wyden tweeted
    March 15. "Time now for the House to act."/

    /In June 2022, the U.S. House failed to pass the bill, which is now
    stalled and scheduled to expire in December./

    /Let the debate resume in March 2023./

>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:10 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
>     as we all know I'm no fan of semi-annual clock changes... and I
>     thought the Sunshine Act
>     <https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623>would
>     put an end to that nonsense even if did fall on the "wrong side"
>     with a year-round DST timesqew.   Looks like it is going to fail
>     despite bipartisan support in the Senate (unsurprising that
>     Florida, closest to the equator, effected least, would be the one
>     to sponsor/promote it?)...
>
>     Oregon (in coordination with CA/WA) have tried to take things into
>     their own hands independent of the rest of the country?
>
>         https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2022/11/03/oregon-daylight-saving-time-november-march/69613463007/
>
>
>     I suppose I could live with the sqew and just change the idioms
>     from 12 noon and 12 midnight to 11 noon and 11 midnight and call
>     it a day/year/life.   Seems like it would just make more sense to
>     sqew the 8-5 (or 9-4) for bankers) an hour earlier instead, but
>     what is the point of having a state/federal/global government if
>     it isn't going to decide for you how we index time?
>
>
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