Washington state to permanent standard time?
"Washington’s latest daylight saving time proposal would mean earlier summer sunsets." https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/01/16/washingtons-latest-daylight-s... The article notes that Washington state adopted permanent daylight saving time in 2019, contingent on federal approval; that approval not having been provided, the current proposal is to use standard time year-round (a switch that does not require federal approval but allows the state to "ditch the switch"). The bill text is available at... https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Document/264443#toolbar=0&nav... ...and includes "...this act takes effect on November 4, 2024." (Meanwhile, I've yet to find the introduction of a time-change bill in the Maryland legislature; bills have been introduced the last few years.) @dashado
I vaguely recall several efforts to switch to permanent standard time in various state legislatures. None have made much progress yet. Retailers generally favor DST and would oppose any effort to go back to standard time, because they fear people would shop less after work. This has been true ever since United Cigar Stores (then one of the largest retail chains in the US) successfully lobbied Congress to establish daylight saving time in 1918. Here is a poster put up by United Cigar Stores celebrating passage of the 1918 bill, and continuing to push the tall tale that farmers favor DST. That tall tale is still circulating. https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g10663/
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