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> The problem? Florida doesn’t have the authority to adopt daylight saving time year-round. > The federal government controls the nation’s time zones, as well
by wellactually 9y ago
> The problem? Florida doesn’t have the authority to adopt daylight saving time year-round.
> The federal government controls the nation’s time zones, as well as the start and end dates of daylight saving time. States can choose to exempt themselves from daylight saving time — Arizona and Hawaii do — but nothing in federal law allows them to exempt themselves from standard time.
- hughes 9y agoCould we end up with two time zones applied to the same region depending on the jurisdictional context?
- what10th 9y agowe're all familiar with the article in the constitution that gives the federal government the power to decide for states how to set their clocks, i assume. i guess you can always count on the times to advocate for centralized power
- CydeWeys 9y agoThe Constitution grants the federal government the power to pass laws, and "setting your own time" isn't explicitly enumerated as a right that is reserved to the states.
- krapp 9y agoAny rights not granted to the Federal government by the Constitution are reserved by the states and the people by default.
- CydeWeys 9y agoThe commerce clause seems limitless in what it will allow.
- KMag 9y agoRights not explicitly reserved for the federal government or individuals are reserved for the states.
- DerekL 9y agoThe Commerce Clause: >Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: [The Congress shall have power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Here's an example. Suppose I'm driving down the highways, and I arrive at some town and I decide to stop for lunch. I see a parking space, but it says I can't park there at certain times. But every city in the country sets its own clocks. How do I figure out what time it is? That's a pain, right?
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThat's quite a stretch. (Of course, the Commerce Clause has been stretched far beyond sanity before...) And standard time was not instituted by the government, using the powers of the Commerce Clause. It was instituted by railroads, who found the exact issue you described to be a pain when trying to schedule trains.
- DerekL 9y agoYes, the Commerce Clause is not the best basis for this. Clause 5 is much better: > [The Congress shall have power] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
- mywittyname 9y agoYou're talking about the Commerce Clause?
- mikeash 9y agoI don’t see any advocacy here.