Nov. 7, 2022
1:46 p.m.
<<On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:12:04 -0700, Paul Gilmartin via tz <tz@iana.org> said:
What advantage does "permanent DST" offer a region over simply moving to Standard Time of one zone further east, which would not require Congress to act?
It solves the collective action problem. Moving one zone to the east is only practical (and would only be approved by USDOT) if a state's regional trading partners and commutersheds did so as well, and every region has some likely holdouts. Congress can do it (theoretically) for every state at once by majority vote, which would be much easier. Note that this is by and large an Eastern Time issue, due to the population, longitudinal extent, and media salience of the zone. -GAWollman