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I want what I believe is best for our great Country. #GoBills #Billsmafia I’m not very interesting, and actually, very boring. Sorry.
Remember walking into The Ground Round as a kid? Peanut shells covered the floor, cartoons played while you waited, and every visit felt like a special occasion.
The Sunshine Protection Act is a commonsense, bipartisan solution to end the outdated practice of changing our clocks twice a year. Today, @HouseGOP will vote to finally lock the clock. Read more on the benefits of permanent daylight saving time 🧵
I asked @grok how many days per year would Austin have sunrises after 8 am on permanent “daylight” time. The answer, below, may surprise you. #DitchDST Roughly 98–100 days per year (about 3 months, centered on mid-winter) would have sunrise after 8:00 AM under permanent Daylight Saving Time in Austin.102 Breakdown for Austin (Central Texas) •Period with sunrise ≥ 8:00 AM: Approximately November 20 to February 26. •Latest sunrise: Around 8:28 AM (typically mid-January, e.g., Jan 4–16). •This is the effect of shifting all winter mornings 1 hour later on the clock compared to standard time. These figures come from local analyses of Austin sunrise data and are approximate (they can shift slightly year to year due to the calendar and leap years). In summer, sunrises would be very early (often before 6 AM), but the question focuses on the late-sunrise days.122 Permanent DST would mean later winter sunrises (and later sunsets, which many prefer for evenings) but darker mornings for school/work commutes during that ~3-month window. For comparison, under the current system with seasonal DST switches, far fewer days have post-8 AM sunrises.
