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What does this mean in terms of short-term, real-world effect in the US?
by runjake 5y ago
What does this mean in terms of short-term, real-world effect in the US?
- secabeen 5y agoNothing. The House has yet to act, and we don't know if Biden would sign it.
- barbazoo 5y agoWould this impose any action on individual states or would this only give them the green light to implement it?
- darkstar999 5y agoDoubtful. Arizona already opts out of changing their clocks. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623/text?r=53 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...
- lotsofpulp 5y agoCurrently, states can only choose permanent standard time, not permanent daylight savings time. The west coast states’ legislatures already voted to go permanent daylight savings, so presumably this bill would allow them to.
- BearOso 5y agoI don't see anything specific about Arizona in the bill. I wonder if they'd just be permanently one hour different.
- forgot_old_user 5y agohmm why wouldnt Biden sign?
- readthenotes1 5y agoThe House undoubtedly will opt to keep standard time permanent. The committee negotiating a unified bill will settle for a compromise of keeping standard time for 8 months of the year and daylight savings time for 4 months of the year on odd years and reversing the proportion during even years. There will be intense discussion about whether to do anything special for leap years. After several months of back and forth, someone will point out that there are also leap seconds and leap microseconds, leading to further debate. The bill will lapse.
- elmerfud 5y agoIt means software updates for all the things!
- cuteboy19 5y agoDoes non OS software usually need to care about timezone?
- sbierwagen 5y agoNothing. The guy who runs tzdata will be busy. Various things that hardcoded DST will break in six months. Hundreds of millions of people won't have a sleep disruption in the fall. Other countries may follow suit. Etc.
- humanwhosits 5y agoPlease tell me there is more than one person
- foodstances 5y agoYou may be surprised to see how often that database is updated. Timezone changes in random places throughout the world are not that uncommon. http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/ http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/ https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://www.iana.org/time-zones
- sremani 5y agoDaylight Savings has real effect on the northern states than southern states. One of the arguments for Day light savings change is that -- it would still be dark during the time kids go to school in winter, early spring and late fall, many places in US will not have Sun rise at 8:00am. No matter how much we may be removed from the nature -- our wakeful hours are directly impacted by Sun rise and Sun set. On the other side, there are discomforts in moving the clock twice a year across the board.
- itslennysfault 5y agoHopefully, that we never have to set our clocks back in the fall.... or EVER AGAIN. Please let this pass before "fall-back"