JJD76 (JJD76)

@WheelmanForHire Or keep noon at noon all year and adjust your personal schedule to when you want to use available sunlight.

All the people pissed in the replies better be getting up at 4am and in bed by 8pm so noon happens in the middle of their waking hours. Average Americans get up at 7:30a and go to bed at 11:30p so maximal sunlight utilization would be to set the clock so solar noon is 3:30pm

@VernBuchanan pDST is harmful! Give us what we’ve been asking for: permanent STANDARD TIME!

Permanent daylight saving time brings many health, economic and lifestyle benefits.   I am proud of my bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, and the impact it will have on the lives of Americans nationwide.

@VernBuchanan @HeraldTribune NO! Do you fucking retarded politicians ever listen to the people? We want permanent STANDARD TIME! Stop working so damn hard to repeat past mistakes!

Americans are ready to lock the clock, and the House acted with broad bipartisan support to pass my Sunshine Protection Act. The Senate now must send this commonsense legislation to the president's desk. Read my op-ed in the @HeraldTribune: heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/…

@Amandafaye27 @aule10 @sally_tanner @MikeBales Does your local kids’ sports stadium not have lights? I’ve never seen one that doesn’t, but I suppose one or two might exist somewhere.

@aule10 @sally_tanner @MikeBales How is kids playing sports in the dark a luxury problem?

For those of you unaware of America's past.

It gets dark ‘early’ because it is winter. Winter days will always be short due to the Earth’s orbit and axial tilt, not because of the time on the clock. Standard Time is simply a measurement of what’s happening in nature: it measures the position of the Sun in the sky. That’s all it is. So why not keep the system that most closely does that and just have people do what people have done for thousands of years: adjust their personal schedules to when they want to use available sunlight? Standard Time doesn’t perfectly measure the Sun’s position, but it is close enough to work. ST is only off by +16 to -14 mins. DST adds an hour to that misalignment, which is clearly far worse.

@sally_tanner @MikeBales It gets dark too early when it’s standard time.

Can you explain why pDST has failed in other developed countries? Others have tried, and failed, as recently as in the past decade. As I understand it, pDST fails as soon as the people experience their first winter with it and realize it sucks. On the other hand, the places that went with permanent Standard Time saw success and still have it years later. All the polls I’ve seen show either an outright majority supporting permanent Standard Time or a plurality supporting permanent Standard Time.

@MikeBales It was rushed into law and forced on the country mid cycle in the winter because of the "energy crisis". No planning, no preparation, nothing. The difference now is we simply stop changing on the next cycle. Plus it's been 50 years and the majority of people support DST.

@ArchibaldBunke3 @Tara4Trump2024 At least you’re a consistent dick.

@jjd76jjd @Tara4Trump2024 Yes it works for me. And yes I admit I am selfish. Now I will be very polite watch this. Kindly fugg off

the absolute dumbest argument I keep hearing against DST is "Kids will go to school in the dark". KIDS GO TO SCHOOL IN THE DARK FROM SEPT till MAY. There are maybe two weeks in November after the switch to Standard Time where they don't.

@MikeBales Tim ‘Tampon’ Walz is such a retarded retard.

I’m just gonna leave this here…

@DrSeeWright @Roe_JamesRoe @MikeBales Then wouldn’t that put us right back to where we are now? People bitch about not having enough sunlight after school/work, but shifting the school/work day an hour later would still not provide more daylight after school/work.

@Roe_JamesRoe @MikeBales Ask your local school district to change their start time. They CAN do that.

And for those that are unaware, pDST has failed in each place that tried it for the same primary reason: it doesn’t work in winter which has shorter days. Kids walking to school is only one small piece of the puzzle. People don’t necessarily like DST…they like the long days of summer. No matter what time we set our clocks to, winter days will always be short…because it is winter. The length of days changes because of Earth’s orbit and axial tilt, not because of the time we decide to set out clocks to.

@MikeBales For all of you unaware of America’s past. In 1974 87% of kids walked to school every day. In 2026 5% of kids walk to school

@gruntdoc @MikeBales So this time it will work? Hmmm…that’s sounds familiar. Who else uses that same argument to advocate for their position?

@MikeBales Quite literally a different country now.

@MaeoftheMidwest @MikeBales Railroads. Time was standardized to help coordinate train schedules in an attempt to decrease accidents and increase on-time performance. It worked so well that other areas of society adopted it and productivity soared.

If memory serves, standardized time had something to do with the industrial age. Before that, it was relative to location. And Einstein would point out that it’s relative regardless. So pick one, stick with it and be done already. This is the dumbest debate in the history of politics. @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @POTUS

@ArchibaldBunke3 @Tara4Trump2024 It works well for you so you want to force everyone to use it? So instead of adjusting your personal schedule to fit when you want to use available sunlight you’d rather force everyone else to adjust theirs. That’s a dick thing to do.

@Tara4Trump2024 Its works for me that is all I care about

Then do what people who live on the boundaries of time zones do: adjust their personal schedules. Is Standard Time 100% perfect? No. Don’t be ridiculous; it can’t be. But it is close enough to work. Solar noon within a time zone will never be perfectly synced for every single person in every single location. The Earth’s orbit plays a role, the axial tilt plays a role, geography plays a role; the variables that affect the system are numerous. However, within a time zone, solar noon is only off by about +16 to -14 mins. That isn’t a big difference; DST adds an hour to that misalignment and that is clearly far worse.

@trigirl4life @EricBurlison

I spent years in IT. You have no idea how much wasted work goes into the time change, weekend crews, patches, and something always breaking. It's 2026. Lock the clock. Pass the Sunshine Protection Act.

What you’re saying is the rest of society must be forced to adjust their clocks so that you can use sunlight when you want to. Do I have that right? You are free to go work for another employer. You are free to start your own business and set your own hours. You have choices; we don’t live in a society in which the government assigns you a position and you are stuck with it for life. This isn’t Soviet-era Russia.

I work for a living. Unlike my ancient ancestors, I am not free to just set my schedule to whatever I want. There is no location on Earth where the sun is always at its zenith at exactly 12pm every day. And even if there were, the lifestyles of modern people don't exactly match the cycles of the sun anyway.

Pitch black when you are awake is a bigger issue than a sun rising when you are inside sleeping with your eyes closed. You know we’re dealing with a special type of people when they can’t comprehend this.

@storm1news I don’t want to hear that! I want to hear that people have actually been arrested!

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@living_energy Where are you getting your information? Solar noon and Standard Time are off by +16 to -14 minutes, not an hour.

Sen. Tom Cotton blocking permanent Daylight Saving Time is the right call. Permanent DST would take a bad situation and make it worse for millions. Especially those on the western edges of their timezone. The standardized time zone system already forces a mismatch between clock time and solar time, and DST locks in a bigger one. In the Eastern Time Zone, solar noon, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, is aligned near the 75th meridian in the Philadelphia area. By western Michigan or western Indiana, solar noon already arrives after 1pm on the clock during standard time. With DST, that shifts to after 2pm. Your body still expects light cues from the sun in reference to the actual solar time, but the schedule runs on a clock set for a meridian far to the east. This creates geographically based “social jetlag”.

You sound perfectly normal for a human if you ask me. A lot of things make people naturally tired in the winter. Darkness triggers melatonin production, and it gets dark earlier in winter therefore your body will start producing melatonin at an earlier clock time. And cool temps also signal the body to slow down and rest which makes us tired.

We have less daylight in the winter because it is winter, not because we aren’t on DST. The length of our days (the amount of sunlight we get) literally changes slightly every single day because of the Earth’s axial tilt. You getting tired early in winter is what the human body is supposed to do. Our bodies’ natural sleep-wake cycle is governed by sunlight. When the Sun rises and casts light our bodies produce hormones that wake us; when the Sun sets and it gets dark our bodies produce different hormones that make us sleepy.

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@Mericanwoodsman @JustMe7176 @Jonsered2071 So what you’re saying is “This time it will work.”? Hmmm…that sounds awfully familiar. Who else says that about something? 🤔

@JustMe7176 @Jonsered2071 And we also didn't have remote work, computers, cell phones, etc. Give people a little more credit... Everyone adapts

Daylight Savings Vs. Standard Time No matter what choice is made, half the country will be p*ssed, so what difference does it make? Just pick one, and we'll adapt. For Gods sake simply make a choice. It isn't the First World War anymore.

History has shown that when pDST has been tried in a country, MORE than half of its population got pissed when they experienced their first winter with DST and the country gave up on DST. And the places that tried permanent Standard Time, so few people were pissed, if any at all, that they just kept pST.