[tz] Re: Bill for "half-daylight time" proposed in US House

<<On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:21:12 -0500, World Time Zone via tz <tz@iana.org> said:

Maybe we should leave clocks and time zones alone and just shift work, school, and service times by 30 minutes?

It's much easier to change clocks than it is to change all the laws, regulations, and contracts. Effectively that's what all of standardized time is, at the government level: a rule that tells officials and courts how to interpret a time given in a statute or other legal document. These could be written with respect to UTC, or to local sunrise and sunset, but rarely are as that would be an even greater inconvenience for most people than having to adjust the dwindling number of clocks that don't change automatically. -GAWollman