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Nothing. The House has yet to act, and we don't know if Biden would sign it.
by secabeen 5y ago
Nothing. 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.