California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time

[DamianTV]

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/07/1844257/california-voters-embrace-year-round-daylight-saving-time
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-voters-embrace-year-round-13369419.php


Californians warmed to the idea of year-round daylight-saving time, approving an initiative that would urge state lawmakers to junk the annual springing forward and falling back. From a report:

With 43 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Proposition 7 was leading 61 percent to 39 percent. It's a long way from here to year-round daylight-saving time. First, the Legislature would have to approve it by a two-thirds vote. Then Congress would have to allow California to deviate from standard time when most of the rest of the nation shifts to it.

Well this ought to make it motherfucking confusing to go back and forth over the California border all the time! Hopefully its only one way, where the best and brightest of Kalifornia leave and never go back. They can keep their politicians and shove them right up their ass.

[Swordsmyth]

At least they won't have to change back and forth, we need it one way or the other year round nation wide.

[Zippyjuan]

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/07/1844257/california-voters-embrace-year-round-daylight-saving-time
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-voters-embrace-year-round-13369419.php



Well this ought to make it motherfucking confusing to go back and forth over the California border all the time! Hopefully its only one way, where the best and brightest of Kalifornia leave and never go back. They can keep their politicians and shove them right up their ass.

Why would it confuse people who cross the state line? The country has time zones and people cross them all the time with no problem. Arizona hasn't changed time for years.

Now the state legislature has to approve it and Congress will as well. Florida passed one a while ago and is still waiting on government approval.

[jkr]

Violates the Commerce Clause

[Zippyjuan]

Violates the Commerce Clause

How so?

[Brian4Liberty]

A lot of Californians have flooded Arizona over the years, and a lot of them visit. This normalized the idea of not changing time. Arizona and now California.

[Danke]

daylight saving time?

I do like my long day lite nights in the summer though, and the sun would come out ridiculously early too if we didn't switch in the spring...

I say keep it as it is now, here.

[Brian4Liberty]

I want to use a sundial...Solar Time.

[Zippyjuan]

A lot of Californians have flooded Arizona over the years, and a lot of them visit. This normalized the idea of not changing time. Arizona and now California.

A lot of Arizonans flood California too. They are called "Zonies".

[brushfire]

Why stop there? UTC for everyone!

[jkr]

How about "time" is bullnshit

[TheCount]

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/07/1844257/california-voters-embrace-year-round-daylight-saving-time
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-voters-embrace-year-round-13369419.php



Well this ought to make it motherfucking confusing to go back and forth over the California border all the time! Hopefully its only one way, where the best and brightest of Kalifornia leave and never go back. They can keep their politicians and shove them right up their ass.

There are already places which don't use DST. Indiana used to stay on standard time. It was a little confusing but not terrible.

[Zippyjuan]

Before they standardized time into zones even a town down the road could have a different time. Noon was whenever the sun was at its highest in the sky. Not necessarily even hour different either- sometimes minutes. That made things like train scheduling difficult. A time chart for trains in one town may not be the same time on a chart put out by another town- you could never be sure what time to expect a train to arrive or depart. so the railroads were the ones who pushed for a standarization of time.

[oyarde]

daylight saving time?

Should be just the opposite. Standard Time all year long.

Now Californians get more daylight than everyone . Is this going to fuck up CalExit ? LOL

[oyarde]

There are already places which don't use DST. Indiana used to stay on standard time. It was a little confusing but not terrible.

I want to return to that .

[Swordsmyth]

Now Californians get more daylight than everyone . Is this going to $#@! up CalExit ? LOL
Californians think they should get more of everything than everyone else.

[TheCount]

I want to return to that .

Well, California has a lot of pull nationally. Might be the first step in ending the silliness that is DST.


(Or morons will reflexively oppose it because it's California. One or the other.)