House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time(www.nytimes.com)

18 pointsby donohoe6 hours ago3 comments

SaucyWrong4 hours ago
This is the wrong call, we should have gone for permanent standard time instead of this. Permanent DST was tried already in the 1970s and everyone in my parents’ generation tells me it was a complete and total disaster
- Ariarule3 hours ago
  1974 was over a half-century ago; it is extremely weak evidence with everything that's changed since then, at best.
  - quuxplusonean hour ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...
    Interestingly, DST itself had been standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 less than a decade before that!
    IMHO seems like permanent standard time would have been the more logical route (apparently it could have been done at the state level under current federal laws), but "more logical" doesn't always mean "easier to accomplish."
  - davesquean hour ago
    Not sure I follow. I can't imagine humanity has evolved much since 1974.
- jsLavaGoat4 hours ago
  It shouldn't matter. If there are bad effects from lack of daylight regardless of number on wall, the schedule should be changed. Technology lets us do that and communicate about it a lot easier.
  Just have winter hours if it affects you. Why can't we do that?
y-curious5 hours ago
Any other devs thinking about how much pain DST caused them and how we now have to go through the equal pain of unfixing DST? For the record, I support this legislation, but here’s to another week of messing with time.
WalterGR5 hours ago
49 comments so far on this submission from 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913246