Politico reports: "Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent." His reasoning:
“For many Arkansans, permanent daylight savings time would mean the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8:00 or even 8:30am during the dead of winter,” Cotton continued. “The darkness of permanent savings time would be especially harmful for school children and working Americans.”
Save the faux concern for school children and working Americans. I don't live particularly far in the north, and I'm already going to work in the dark and passing school children waiting for school busses. By December, after the shift back to standard time, I (and other American workers and school children) will be starting our days in the dark and I (and other American workers) will be coming home in the dark.
Another pet peeve of mine. Ranks up there with fluoridated water. A day is 24 hours long no matter how you slice it up...and the length of daylight or darkness remains the same for everyone. Cotton would be happier in Eastern Maine...where the Sun rises at around 4:50 am in June. I keep telling everyone that we should just fall back 1/2 hour and make that permanent...split the difference is the best option. No one listens.
ReplyDeleteArkansas could do like Arizona and set their own time zone. Why not?
ReplyDeleteI want permanent Standard time. Fight me.
ReplyDeleteCotton and his ilk don't really care about Daylight Savings or Standard Time.
ReplyDeleteIt has never once served another real purpose, neither for farmers, who never asked for it, nor for the non-existent energy savings gained by shifting lighting use from one set of dark hours to another (or the same for poorly lit buildings around the country).
The only conceivable purposes are to throw off our internal clocks and give us all a constant source of biological stress and to exert arbitrary authority.
Angry, sick, irrational voters serve all kinds of agendas, both corporate and political.