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Oregon lawmakers will be hearing from the public Tuesday morning on a bill that will keep most of the state on Standard Time all year round.If passed and signed ....
Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) testified at the Capitol in Washington D.C. Wednesday about the need for permanent standard time. ....
Good luck. Congress is consumed with passing the progressive agenda right now, which means that if you aren’t trying to redistribute money from those who earn it to those who like getting free stuff, and if you aren’t trying to shift power from individuals, businesses, and states to the Federal Government, your law won’t go through. Here are five ways to get permanent DST signed into law, based on the legislative priorities of the new administration. Connect Daylight Savings to climate change Any bill that has the slightest connection to climate change is going to pass the Democratic House and the Senate in a New York minute. If legislators can make a convincing case that eliminating DST has a positive effect on climate change, it’s a done deal. Here’s the case: You use less electricity to heat and light homes and businesses if you don’t reset the clocks twice a year. ....
Photo: Loïc Venance/AFP (Getty Images) The Senate might just finally do away with Daylight Saving Time (DST) clock shifts, ridding America of the twice-a-year impositions on everyone’s sanity and standardizing time at the moment after the clock jumps forward on March 14 this year. Of course, similar proposals have regularly flamed out over the years, so take that with a grain of salt. Advertisement The annual transitions between DST and Standard Time manage to be both simple and a headache-inducing confusion. At 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, clocks roll forward an hour, and at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November, clocks roll back an hour. That means from March to November, Americans get an extra hour of sunlight or so during the evening, and from November to March, Americans get an extra hour or so of sunlight in the early hours of the morning. ....