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PERRY: Time's up, America. Ditch the daylight saving time switch while we have the chance

https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/perry-times-up-america-ditch-the-daylight-saving-time-switch-while-we-have-the-chance/

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PERRY: Time's up, America. Ditch the daylight saving time switch while we have the chance

https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/perry-times-up-america-ditch-the-daylight-saving-time-switch-while-we-have-the-chance/

#DitchTheSwitch

It's time for the twice-annual groaning about the time change with #DaylightSavingTime ending for the year in the US & Canada Sunday morning, November 2. A way we can resist/rebel is to develop software so our own computers + devices can opt-out of DST, and still interact with those required to use it. See my LongitudeTZ project on GitHub. Lots to do but it won't get anywhere without supporters. https://github.com/ikluft/LongitudeTZ #OpenSource #software #tech #PermanentStandardTime #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

"Oregon Senate passes bill for permanent standard time... or possibly permanent daylight saving time" by KGW News (NBC Portland) - After #SB1038 passage in the #Oregon Senate, it will be up for a vote in the House. If passed by House and signed by governor, Oregon would go along if both CA & WA #DitchTheSwitch too within 10 years. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/oregon-senate-passes-bill-end-daylight-saving-time-switch/283-1e33b479-450f-4381-9dec-700ac409d308 #PNW

I watched as #Oregon SB566 #PermanentStandardTime bill apparently died. I didn't realize it was replaced by #SB1038 until that passed the Senate today. On to the House.

The new bill is weird. It'll go along with permanent Standard or Daylight time as long as both CA & WA adopt same in 10 years. Permanent DST would require an act of Congress first, since states aren't allowed to choose it. Excludes Mountain Time portion of Oregon in Malheur County. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB1038 #DitchTheSwitch #PNW

Texas: New: SB 516 seeks illegal, unsafe, permanent Daylight Saving Time. Filed by Senator Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), who previously sponsored bills seeking pDST and bills seeking legal, safe, permanent Standard Time. Permanent DST would put TX sunrise past 8am 3–5 months, later even then 9am! When last tried, it cost lives and business, and Texans rejected it. Please urge him and your own state legislators to #DitchTheSwitch the quick, safe, and lasting way, with permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST! #DitchDST #TXLeg #MAHA

Or tell your TX state legislators to file the suggested bill from our website, which can #DitchTheSwitch by end of next year or after another state agrees to join TX in ditching DST with permanent Standard Time! https://savestandardtime.com/legislation/?j=tx

Please tell your Texas state legislators to sponsor Senator Judith Zaffirini’s SB 64, which is the only bill filed so far in Texas that can #DitchTheSwitch by the end of 2025! https://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB64

Read Senator Niello’s complete statement in the Sacramento Bee here. #DitchTheSwitch #CALeg #DaylightSavingTime https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article294891724.html

Read the full interview with Washington State Senator Jeff Wilson here. #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime #DitchTheSwitch #WALeg https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/qa-this-wa-lawmaker-is-proposing-ending-daylight-saving-time/

Washington State #WALeg Senator Jeff Wilson (R) is filing legislation to #DitchDST by permanent Standard Time; thank you! This is the quickest, safest, healthiest way to #DitchTheSwitch. Tell your state legislators to support!

New York #NYLeg Asm Angelo Santabarbara is filing legislation to #DitchDST by permanent Standard Time, thank you! This is the quickest, safest, healthiest way to #DitchTheSwitch. Tell your state legislators to support!

Read OK Rep West’s full statement here. #OKLeg #DaylightSavingTime #StandardTime #DitchTheSwitch https://www.oklahomafarmreport.com/okfr/2024/10/31/rep-kevin-west-what-a-waste-of-time/

#OnThisDay in 1974: Permanent #DaylightSavingTime in the United States soon came to an end. Permanent #StandardTime is the better way to #DitchTheSwitch!

Tell your legislators to restore permanent Standard Time. It’s the healthiest, safest, fairest, and most lasting way to #DitchTheSwitch! Click here: https://www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Campaigns/118165/Respond

Tell your Congress members that permanent DST (“Sunshine Protection”) has repeatedly failed—permanent Standard Time instead is the healthy, safe, and lasting way to #DitchTheSwitch. https://www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Campaigns/111094/Respond

#OnThisDay in 1974: Praise for repeal of permanent Daylight Saving Time (“Sunshine Protection”). Permanent Standard Time is the better way to #DitchTheSwitch! https://www.newspapers.com/article/-sidewalk-quiz-majority-favors-standard/143456817/

Permanent Standard Time—not permanent DST, not “Sunshine Protection”—is the safest way to end clock change. #DitchTheSwitch https://ditchdst.com/

California Senate approves the amended SB-1413. Originally filed by Senator Niello to #DitchDST, #DitchTheSwitch, and restore permanent Standard Time, it was amended by committee only to study energy effects of such action. It next goes to #CALeg Assembly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjjkyLq2QE

California State Senate passed #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill after it was amended down to a study due 2027, not repeal of DST. Slightly better than nothing. In the western states this year, Oregon got the farthest with Senate passing #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST bill #SB1548.

California (#CALeg) Senate’s Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee have rewritten SB-1413.

Originally filed to #DitchDST, #DitchTheSwitch, and restore permanent Standard Time, in 2024, at no cost—it would now only *study* Daylight Saving Time, in 2027, for $600,000.

California’s rewritten SB-1413 would only study energy effects of DST—while ignoring health, safety, education, and productivity.

DST has already been studied hundreds of times. It does not save energy. Even if it did, it would not justify its many greater harms to public well-being.

Please contact California Senate leadership, ask them to restore SB-1413’s original wording. 👉 https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators/senate-leadership

Also contact your own state senator, tell him/her to support permanent Standard Time. 👉 https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

Unfortunately, California State Senate amended #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill to only a report, and removed actual repeal of DST. Unless CA Assembly unexpectedly revives AB1776, this ends any hope for #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST in the western states that could begin 2025. ☹️

California State Senate advanced #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill to an upcoming floor vote. It needs a 2/3 vote to pass because an amendment added a budgetary cost, requiring a report be written. 2/3 may be steep uphill. 🙁 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1413 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

California State Senate committee voted #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill out of the "suspense file", a budget & political filter, keeping this one alive. Now we'll see if it goes next to another committee, or entire senate. https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/sites/sapro.senate.ca.gov/files/Hearing_Results%205-16-24%20Suspense.pdf #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

All the western states are watching California debate on #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill. CA is only state big enough not to be afraid to go first. Senate committee kept it under consideration of bills vs available budget. https://universeodon.com/@SaveStandard/112396088930312201 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

California State Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh sponsors SB-1413 to #DitchTheSwitch and #DitchDST—thank you!

Please tell your #CALeg members to sponsor SB-1413 for permanent Standard Time, find them here: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

Californians, please click https://www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Campaigns/112508/Respond to tell #CALeg to #DitchDST and #DitchTheSwitch for #SleepHealth, thanks!

Permanent Standard Time is the quickest and healthiest way to #DitchTheSwitch. Please click here to tell your California legislators YES on SB-1413! https://www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Campaigns/112508/Respond

Click here to send a pre-written message to your #CALeg senator and assemblymember! https://www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Campaigns/112508/Respond #DitchTheSwitch

California: Tell state legislators YES on SB-1413! Permanent Standard Time is the only legal and healthy way to #DitchTheSwitch. Ditch Daylight Saving Time! https://sr06.senate.ca.gov/content/senator-niellos-bill-ditch-switch-be-heard-tuesdays-senate-energy-committee-hearing

California SB-1413 (Niello) for permanent Standard Time is approved by committee! Tell your #CALeg state legislators to sponsor and #DitchTheSwitch the quickest, safest way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_5l4beIIY

After a delay in the scheduled hearing, California state senate committee approved 13-0 #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill with recommendation to pass it.
Next steps would need votes by state senate & assembly and governor's signature. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

Alaska: Tell #AKLeg state legislators YES on SB 184 to #DitchDST and #DitchTheSwitch! https://www.newsminer.com/news/politics/lawmakers-consider-eliminating-daylight-saving-time/article_b48232ee-e0a4-11ee-b61d-934d99ebd664.html

California #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill scheduled for Tue Apr 2 hearing in state senate. It proposes unilateral change, no conditions on other states. Watch closely: CA is ⅛ of US population - if passed, western states except Arizona will certainly follow. (AZ is already permanent std time.) #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

"People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why." by @UndarkMag / @TeresaRCarr - Standard Time is natural time. It puts clock noon at average solar noon, balancing available daylight in morning & evening. https://undark.org/2024/03/11/time-zones-daylight-saving/ #PermanentStandardTime #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

Michigan: Tell state legislators: YES on SB 770 to ditch Daylight Saving Time in 2024! #MILeg #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/bill-would-let-voters-decide-whether-to-ditch-the-clock-switch/

Oklahoma: Tell state legislators to support Representative Kevin West’s efforts to end clock change the healthy, safe, legal way: permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST! #DitchDST #DitchTheSwitch #OKLeg https://www.okhouse.gov/posts/news-20240311_2

Why clocks change, and can it be stopped?   :

There are competing movements. Evening sun lovers want permanent standard time, and say it promotes recreation and family time.
#clock #ditchtheswitch #DST #locktheclock #sleep #StandardTime #timezone
#Miami #news

https://kbindependent.org/2024/03/10/why-clocks-change-and-can-it-be-stopped/

Idaho's #PermanentStandardTime bill #H0584 is scheduled for a vote in the House on Monday. It's statewide, covering Pacific & Mountain Time parts of state. Requires 2+ other western states from MT, UT, WY, OR, WA, CA to join in. https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0584/ #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST

@HamonWry
It bothers me a lot less now that I don't change my sleep/wake times when the clock changes. But I still support ditching the twice a year clock changes

Here's a post I made earlier today:

https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/112072552269014480

#DitchTheSwitch #DST