This is absolutely the wrong way to think about the matter. I am more against government overreach than most, but time schemes need to be uniform to work. They need to be governed. They maybe even need to be enforced. I don’t think this libertarian question has merit.
House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent
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Like which brand of $25 jug of 0W20 Synthetic should I buy?
The extra hour of light is going to cause more damage to clearcoat and fade upholstery quicker 
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I have the perfect high-tech BITOG-inspired solution ...
Why don't we develop a oil-pressure driven, variable drive system for clocks? It could "advance" the clocks (at a rate of 10 minutes per month) for six months, and then "retard" the clocks for 6 months (at a rate of 10 minutes per month) .... We can call it "VCT" (variable clock timing) !!!
Of course, it would be viscosity dependent; only accurate with 0w-20 "fully synthetic" oil ...
P.S. ... how long before AI grabs this idea and runs with it?
Why don't we develop a oil-pressure driven, variable drive system for clocks? It could "advance" the clocks (at a rate of 10 minutes per month) for six months, and then "retard" the clocks for 6 months (at a rate of 10 minutes per month) .... We can call it "VCT" (variable clock timing) !!!
Of course, it would be viscosity dependent; only accurate with 0w-20 "fully synthetic" oil ...
P.S. ... how long before AI grabs this idea and runs with it?
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Not sure how accurate this map is, but here it is anyway... Michigan is screwed. 
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There is nothing in the constitution giving the federal government control over time. They utilize the contorted "commerce clause" to usurp this power, which is really inaccurate because it says they can regulate commerce not time. If the states wanted to do there own thing they would be entitled. I will defer to our founders who were experts on such things.
The United States has 4 time zones and 9 if you count the territories so its already not standard. There are 24 time zones in the world. Changing it randomly back and forth twice a year is simply less uniform.
And just as an FYI, I work for a German company and have already traded emails with them several times today. I start early. Easy peezy.
We do have a little bit shorter time between sunrise and sunset in the summer than they do up north.
But we do get dark here (Southeast Florida) at 6 PM here in the winter around the end of December.
Hear, hear! My brain was closed for business until at least nine. Not much learning was gonna happen before then.
I hope it passes. You know what a pain in the rear setting my sun dial is?
And in Western New York, we get dark around 4:30 at the end of December. Winter daylight time get much shorter, the farther north you go!
Again, this is why a half hour is THE solution. Equal dissatisfaction on both sides.
Which is why complaints of kids getting hit by school busses on dark mornings are just inflammatory gibberish. Certain parts of the globe get more daylight than others, full stop.
What do they do near the poles? No school busses because it's never light long enough?? Give me a break.....
We have the technology -- it's called headlights and good parenting (my mom once reamed me for playing in a snowy street while waiting for a bus. I still have scars from her tongue lashing.....)
Simple solution: change the start time in winter.
The only thing less likely than this bill passing is getting teachers' unions to agree to ANYTHING
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Yeah everybody making their own rules about changing time or not, and by how much, and when, that's gotta be a simpler and less disruptive than everybody changing it all at once.
