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DOGE won’t be able to do anything because it’s a fake office made to keep Elon happy enough to fund Trump. It won’t last a year before Musk and Trump hate each other because two narcissists like that can’t share a space.
He can recommend ending DST all he wants, but nobody will have to listen to him.
There is already a push for this though. Not eliminating DST, but making it permanent. This is just DOGE trying to take credit for something that could potentially already happen. Like how the GAO already exists and DOGE is just citing reports the GAO already has done. Nothing says efficiency like putting two people in charge of a program that is duplicating what another agency already does.
Yes please let’s end the madness and stay on summer hours year round.
What is GAO?
The Government Accountability Office. Literally an office that already does what DOGE is supposed to do.
Not eliminating DST, but making it permanent.
Typical that Musk would choose the more costly and environmentally damaging option.
Why would that be more damaging? That was what congress wanted to do, before Musk.
Agree. DST is set by an act of Congress, and it can only be changed by an act of Congress.
I don’t know, do you really have any faith in this Republican congress not to just rubber stamp everything that Trump and his man behind the curtain tells them too?
Something something broken clock is right twice a day…
“I’ll let you have a hershey’s kiss as a little treat if you finish drinking your glass of sulfuric acid!”
I just hope we permanently end Daylight Savings Time and stick with Standard Time. It’s detrimental to everyone’s health
Come to New England and see if you still have the same opinion. The sun sets before 4 pm some days of the year. Standard time can go fuck itself.
Yep. We should stay on “spring forward” time, which I believe is DST, year-round. No more stupid changing the clocks, and it may not be dark when you go to AND get off work if you do a regular schedule during the winter. The extra hour of sunlight is just a great summer bonus.
If they end time changing but keep us on the current time, I’m going to be fucking pissed.
The current argument against constant Daylight Time is that kids would have to go to school in the dark.
Aren’t they doing that anyway? School started at 7 back in the 1850s when I was there.
For what school there was. Back then, I was helping out on my dad’s ranch. He had to sell it for medical money recently. Ranch was in the family for 170 years, and bam! lost to the greed of the rich.
My dude, I live in the North as well, but noon is when the sun is at its peak, time is time.
You must not do many things outside if this is your take.
Or I refuse to redefine natural time to fit the whims of capitalist beaurocracy that doesn’t want to adjust itself for human needs but instead wants to adjust time itself.
Have fun living in your fucking anarchic fantasy land. I’ll be over here raising my kids with circadian rhythms.
We should stop messing with clocks first.
Then we can have another 50 years of arguments on standard time vs daylight savings time
I would like to stop changing the clocks. I read a while back that in the 1970s they did it and reverted back because so many people complain about getting up in the dark. Seems like it would be best to keep the winter hours honestly. All the proposal I’ve seen want summer time.
Who wants a 4am sunrise in the summer though? I think more people prefer extra light in the evening since you’re out and about already. It doesn’t make much different in the winter whether sunrise is at 8am or 9am since everyone is getting up and going to work/school in the dark either way.
What do you do when the sun gets up at 5am? I get up at 7:30. If managed to find a solution for sleeping 2.5 hours in sunlight, I’ll do just fine with 3.5.
I’ve traveled to places near the equator where the sun rises at 4am and once I adapted, I loved it. That being said, and this is key, I wasn’t working when I was in those places.
End time changing. Keep summer time year round. I think we need to stop saying “end daylight saving time” because what we actually want is to keep daylight saving time and stop changing the clocks. It can be confusing. Hopefully somehow this is a nonpartisan issue because the disinformation will be nuts if it gets politicized.
To be fair, a place I go in the US the sun is already coming up at 4 in the summer. Maybe split the difference?
When I worked in the office, it was dark when I went to work and dark when I got home (in winter). I don’t care which one they pick.
FYI, I was in school in 70s when Ford stopped it. I don’t remember it being a big deal. And neither was metric.
I look forward to this.
While I hate changing clocks like most people… I don’t see how this is efficient. Think about how many devices already assume the clocks will change. It will cost billions to make the switch.
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