Coming from a DSTer, I’ll take that as a compliment. 
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Samm
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Clock time is a human construct. Noon may literally mean when the sun is at it’s highest, but to people, it is considered mid day. For most people that is at about 2:00 pm standard time. (Typically, the waken day for the vast majority of people is about 6:00 am to about 10:00 pm.) You wouldn’t be taking your lunch break at 2:00 pm, it would still be at 12:00 Noon, only the clock changes, not the sun.
Samm
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Even where you live, the sunrise is at a different time every day.
Samm
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All summer long I don’t see the sun rise. I don’t get up that early. Even with our clock set two hours ahead of the solar time, the sun comes up long before my day begins.
But in the evening, I have the benefit of daylight right up to (and for few weeks, beyond) bed time. It’s amazing what one can find to do outside in those after dinner daylight hours.
Samm
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Makes a guy dull and boring. 
Of course, but sunrise was like 7:15 am last week. Ridiculous!
Ha. My experiences tell a different story.
Samm
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You shouldn’t let astrophysics and and social constructs bother you so much. A sunrise is still a wonderous thing to admire regardless what number is on the face of the clock.
Samm
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No supposing about it. It’s a fact.
Samm
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What do you know … you’re dull and boring. 
Samm
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That’s what living too long complaining about daylight savings time will do to a fellow. 
Orygun
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Gotta love the name of the Rubio bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent - The “Sunshine Protection Act”
And look- The South and the Left Coast agree on something!
Guvnah
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I’d rather not have time changes. Pick one and stay with it. (But it’s a hill not worth fighting for.)
My idea is to add the extra “fall-back” hour in the early hours of Black Friday. Let the retailers make a special Black Hour on Black Friday. And for people who need time to adjust their rhythms to the new time change, they’ll have a long weekend for it.
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Orygun
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Forget covid, forget Ukraine. Forget the possibility of nuclear war. Daylight Savings Time will soon be…forever! No more changes back and forth twice a year. The “Sunshine Protection Act” passed in the Senate…unanimously. Huzzah!
…
"The U.S. Senate caught people off guard and voted unanimously Tuesday to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, proving that government can still work for the people.
Two days after most of the country participated in the pointless exercise of gaining back an hour of daylight that should have never been lost, senators did their jobs.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked for unanimous consent as he proposed a resolution to end the ordeal. There were no objections.
Wow, someone actually said that with a straight face!

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Samm
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I heartily endorse that legislation … Even more so if they moved it two hours, but I can see how that wouldn’t be best for people in some locations, so one hour is acceptable. Let’s hope the House doesn’t politicize this.
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Orygun
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This should be a slam dunk in the House and an easy bill to sign by Biden.
I do know that this has been done before and it was seen as unpopular after only a short while back in the 70’s. Lets see if that happens again. I think this time will be different.
Samm
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I agree, it should be. But a lot of things that should be slam dunks in Congress often get stalled and killed due to partisan politics. So until this is sitting on Biden’s desk (who will sign anything he is told to sign) I wouldn’t count on not “falling back” again next October.
Edit. I just heard on the evening News, the law would not go into effect until this time next year. I can’t imagine what reason they would have to delay it. Does it take that long to change the program that automatically makes the switch on the Internet?