Paul wrote:
I've stopped keeping track of all the proposed US legislation to end daylight saving time...
I was just about to post a link to this NYT article on the same subject: Daylight Saving Is Here. Suppose We Made This Time Change Our Last? Compelled by the augustly named federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, most Americans will leap ahead -- or stumble blearily -- from one configuration of the clock to another this weekend, as daylight saving time clicks in at 2 a.m. Sunday. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/daylight-savings-time.html Nothing anyone on this list doesn't know, but well written. Actually, the article made one point that I hadn't really realized: while simply abandoning (or permanently adopting) DST requires a formal amendment to that 1966 law, ...moving to a different time zone does not require an act of Congress -- all it takes is an order from the Transportation Department, the federal agency that oversees time (a legacy of its duties regulating railroad schedules). Thus the proposals to, for example, adopt straight Atlantic time in New England.