"Washington House OKs step toward year-round daylight saving"
Per an Associated Press report: "...the Washington House passed a measure Saturday that would make...later sunsets permanent in the state all year—if Congress allows it." https://wtop.com/national/2019/03/washington-house-oks-step-toward-year-roun...
I've stopped keeping track of all the proposed US legislation to end daylight saving time. Bills have been introduced or passed in states ranging from Alaska <https://www.abc27.com/news/local/state-lawmaker-proposes-to-eliminate-daylig...> to Wyoming <https://www.wyodaily.com/story/2019/02/14/news/daylight-saving-time-bill-die...>. None of the bills that have become law have changed civil timekeeping in any way, and I suspect that this is by design. Most Americans want to stop fiddling with the clocks twice a year. Some want to move one timezone east (so-called "permanent DST"), while others want to stay on permanent standard time. Although the former typically outnumber the latter, any change will be controversial and state legislators prefer doing nothing to dealing with the blowback that would come from any real change. I suspect this is why many legislators seem to be happy to do what the Washington House has done, which is to pass a bill that doesn't really do anything, and blame the problem on Washington.
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.
It passed the house and senate. The governor needs to sign it still, but here is the law as approved: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Le... Of course, it's bound to US Congress changing the federal DST law, but still interesting. The effective date would be November 2019, unless congress doesn't allow it until after October 1st, then it would be the following year. At least they allowed for 1 month minimum notice. -Matt ________________________________ From: tz <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:30 PM To: Arthur David Olson Cc: Time Zone Mailing List Subject: Re: [tz] "Washington House OKs step toward year-round daylight saving" I've stopped keeping track of all the proposed US legislation to end daylight saving time. Bills have been introduced or passed in states ranging from Alaska <https://www.abc27.com/news/local/state-lawmaker-proposes-to-eliminate-daylig...> to Wyoming <https://www.wyodaily.com/story/2019/02/14/news/daylight-saving-time-bill-die...>. None of the bills that have become law have changed civil timekeeping in any way, and I suspect that this is by design. Most Americans want to stop fiddling with the clocks twice a year. Some want to move one timezone east (so-called "permanent DST"), while others want to stay on permanent standard time. Although the former typically outnumber the latter, any change will be controversial and state legislators prefer doing nothing to dealing with the blowback that would come from any real change. I suspect this is why many legislators seem to be happy to do what the Washington House has done, which is to pass a bill that doesn't really do anything, and blame the problem on Washington.
On 2019-04-24, at 11:37:51, Matt Johnson wrote:
It passed the house and senate. The governor needs to sign it still, but here is the law as approved: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Le...
Of course, it's bound to US Congress changing the federal DST law, but still interesting.
Why not just move WA to MST with no semiannual adjustment? That wouldn't require an act of Congress, but merely an administrative action by the Secrtary of Transportation. http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/usc.html (What's in a name?)
From: tz <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:30 PM
... Some want to move one timezone east (so-called "permanent DST"), ...
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