In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out.
Because I want it to be light out later in the day
You like not being able to be outside?
I’d rather have them move the clock an hour backwards in summer. Summer days are so hot nowadays that you can’t be outdoors until after the sun goes down. Summer nights are nice, summer evenings aren’t. With DST you have to go to bed by the time you can be outdoors so you effectively can’t be out during weekdays.
I don’t agree at all. I have a ton of outdoor activities after work that get cut off when winter time doesn’t give me any daylight to do them. The heat isn’t the problem; the lack of evening daylight is the problem.
I don’t see how an additional hour in winter would help if you have a normal 9-5 job. Does it matter if it gets dark at 4 or 5 in the afternoon when either way it’s dark before you get off work?