Last week Sen Marco Rubio introduced a bill for the fourth time that would make daylight saving time permanent in the U.S. with bipartisan support. NBC’s Hallie Jackson takes us back to where daylight saving time started.
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#DaylightSavingTime #Congress #MarcoRubio
This springing forward and falling back business must end. I wish we didn’t have to mess with the clocks at all. Come on Congress, can’t you all just get one thing like this to pass?!?
The government only exists to make its people suffer🤣
And do away with taxes….guess that would be pushing it wouldn’t it
Making daylight savings permanent would mean another hour of morning darkness in winter and higher energy costs associated with it.
@George V. Cohea The idea behind the time change is to conserve energy during times of increased darkness and to maximize resources during longer daylight.
@Switch Deck When you sleep you generally don’t have lights on and businesses don’t use as much energy. The US Dept of Energy estimates 5% home energy savings per day.. multiply by entire country. Also, increased waking daylight hours in summer maximizes a nation’s productivity & GNP.
@Patrick Fuchs
This idea was conceived at a time when the energy situation was substantially different and more fragile, discounting a freak ice storm in Texas several years ago, and today we have technological advancements that early twentieth century humans could never have imagined. Things have become so efficient in this twenty-first century, that the savings are negligible or even more probably non-existent from the biannual superstitious ritual. The time to have one year round national time standard was probably when Nixon did it, but no one accounted for what had to happen on the local level. I frequently hear about school children being in school in the dark, and that had nothing to do with a permanent national time, it has to do with inept local scheduling. These days local yokels have Google and can easily look up year round sunrise/sunset charts for their zip code and pick a time when daylight hours overlap all year for the school day.
It’s truly not a problem to have one national year round time standard, and I believe, Rubio’s legislation gives at least a year buffer to facilitate required adjustments on the local level.
I know what my preference is, and that’s never changing clocks again. The selection is irrelevant, but splitting the difference is likely going to be the most favourable and likely accepted compromise, which is great for actually getting this done in short order.
@George V. Cohea Where I live it’s dark until after 8:00 in January. Keeping the clocks set where they are today would push daylight to 9:00 a.m. in January. That’s ridiculous.
@Patrick Fuchs
This is why I advocate for a balanced approach. I believe an hour is demanding too much in either direction.
This should be bipartisan. Just get it done
Bs saving time nothing changes
Time is not real 🙄
every year this story comes up and nothing ever happens
Oh man, I’m so onboard. I like DST. NOT Standard Time, please. I can turn my light on in the morning.
You can’t take it away, it’s still going to get dark at a certain time and sunrise and sunset.
I’m over it I think it is dumb
I think we should all do what Arizona did and just have Standard Time be permanent.
Your economy will suffer workers that work sun up to sun down would make less money this less tax money coming in.
Won’t ever happen.
Changing the clocks doesn’t create more daylight but the clocks were changed
That’s not how it works
When the clocks set forward 1 hour on 12 March
In Calgary
On 12 March 2023
Sunrise at 6:56am change to 7:56am
Sunset at 6:35pm change to 7:35pm
So sunrise and sunset will be 1 hour later on Sunday 12 March
You just have to remember that the clocks were changed
Well this didn’t pass. What a joke.
Here we go agian. This will never pass congress for like the 100 time
If I have the power, for example 1:00AM then switch to 12:30AM, then live it there forever.
12:30AM then change to 1:00AM and live it there forever.
nothing that actually benefits the people will ever be passed by the whores of babylon!
Get rid of this clock forward backward crap man!
My body feels much better on standard time. I detest daylight saving time.
How would the studies we want the longer days
There are far more important things for congress to do. Just make a decision and move forward.
They TALK About this twice every year, but nothing ever gets done. The time changes are too disruptive.
Historically no one wanted DLS and still don’t. DLS only supports capitalists at the expense of human health. Humans otherwise worked best without DLS for millennia
Just do it or drop it and then move on. It is a waste of bandwidth and our national energy/focus/resource/etc. to keep talking about it for years.
They’re wrong. Abolish daylight saving time. Natural is always best.
So true. And think about how many comments are being shadow banned to lean the conversation to one side.
Yea because when I look at my bills being scared of car jack and drive by in Chicago looking at clouds coming from Ohio I always think if congres could just fix day time savings my life would be perfect .
Who gives f about this , do something that matters 😠😡🤬
But you can’t change the earth’s time.
Please abolish Daylight Saving Time.
Friday morning I enjoyed not having to drive to work in the dark. Sunrise was at 6:17 AM. Now I have to wait 5 weeks until sunrise is at 6:17 AM again!
How about healthcare for ALL?
you pick the one where the sun is at high noon at noon
This is not possible. It is how things were done when people could not reliably travel more than around 15 miles per day, and whilst it did work fine for centuries, can you imagine all airlines suddenly having Southwest Airlines style scheduling issues every single day‽ A state like Texas would have like a dozen different times.
@George V. Cohea you misunderstand the question, its do we use standard time or daylight savings time. time zones stay the same.
Please stop the back and forth with the time it’s pointless! Pass the bill!
this is how backward and upside down things are, they want to freeze the clock in a non-natural time. an hour ahead of the sun Natural Time, Standard Time, means the sun will be overhead at noon, not off to the east still climbing the sky like it is during ”Daylight Savings” Contact Your Congress Person DEMAND NATURAL STANDARD TIME
Every year y’all say same thing… every freaking year!!!
♦️Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent! 🌞 Sunshine Protection Act of 2023 legislation would end the antiquated practice of changing clocks twice a year.
I always thought the 🤷♂️reason we switched the clock twice a year was to protect school children at bus stops in DARK am🙋♀️
the switch we just had makes it darker in the mornings though
When the 💩 goes to 💩, there comes Marco Rubio
changing clocks twice a year….waste of time.
Daylight savings with long hours in the evening are bad for humans. Psych issues will dramatically increase
I like Daylight saving time change but don’t like the winter change. We need to get more sun. It’s really depressing when it gets dark at 4 pm.
I hope it passes
I don’t care which time we stay at but we gotta stop doing this. One time. all the time
It is expensive to manage time going back and forth every year!
Bill Gates claimed that Microsoft was expending around $6,000,000 annually back in the 90s to maintain time.
As long as it’s now. I like when it’s sunny outside later.
Fun fact there’s a 30% increase in car and work place accidents the week following the time change.
Just vote it in you lazy bums.
No, Sorry to tell you but Daylight Savings Time is not going to be Permanent. We need to Fall Back To Standard Time This Fall and we can Stay On Standard Time Year Round Starting Next Year. Kids who.go to school need to have Daylight as they walk especially. People also need to Eake Up to Daylight and not in Darkness.
Justin Rosenberg
I find it easier waking up in dark myself I am comforted by it …
Standard Time will also NOT become permanent and NEVER will be
Disney character panties are the most cutest and comfortable kind of panties to wear hgfd
i really wanna know what video you meant to comment this on
@Blueybeak this one.
My grandmother said they tried it in the 70s and didn’t work. First day of winter if this was permitted… 820… kids should NOT walk to school in the dark!
@George V. Cohea you think…. you want an 8 year old walking in the dark to school?? I sure wouldn’t. What about waking up a high schooler in the dark????
@George V. Cohea want high/middle school to start in the dark???? My high schooler would be for an hour.
@George V. Cohea didn’t f****** work 50 years ago what makes you think it would work now??
@Sab
No, I am not sure you understand that the amount of daylight is exactly the same, whether US is on Standard Time or DST or even in between. Only the human created time when the sun is out changes, and this is where the school district has to decide what to do. Sunrise was 6:24 yesterday, and with DST, it was 7:24 today. This did nothing about the geographical reach of the sunlight that was going to happen regardless, it merely shifts what time sunrise and sunset occur. This time and the relative seasonal sun positions will be what local school districts will have to look at and figure out when to start school based on year round cycles. Obviously, the sunrise will be different in September when school starts than in January or even in June when the school year closes out, and finding when the daylight overlaps is only one option for them. They could also opt to have seasonal hours for summer, winter and spring to account for the differing sunrise/sunset patterns.
My point is, that a national time standard would not have anything to do with what locals have to do to make it best work for them. If schools decide to open in the dark, this is a local issue, not a federal one. You lot need the autonomy to do what’s best for the area you live in. Washington is not the place for deciding local matters but is the place to set broadly national standards. 1 minute, 1 pound, 1 meter, etc. needs to be the same in Clewiston, FL as it is in Cedar City, UT or Los Angeles, CA, but how locals utilise these federally mandated figures is mostly left up to the states and municipalities.
@Sab
It will work now because of the changes society has made in the past half century. The issues that made that previous attempt fail are not insurmountable these days and can be worked out in short order with a bit of planning and preparation. Remember, the amount of daylight does not change because of DST, only the timeframe of daylight changes.
If Florida is farther south than the continental states, why would it still be dark at 9am in Spring?
I like it dark by 6 please 😊
What I don’t understand is why can’t people just change their business hours, meeting schedules, etc. to be one hour later or one hour earlier based on the season? I’ve worked in tourism for a long time and our business hours change constantly. Office jobs could switch to 10 to 6 instead of 9 to 5 during the darker season. Schools can do the same thing with their schedules. Why don’t we as a society just do that instead of changing the clocks based on some arbitrary difference? Better yet, we have the technology now, why not conduct our business based off of time relative to sunset and sunrise?
The issue is that we are biologically driven to wake up with the sun, not at some arbitrary time that we created. Assuming no DST, in the summer, at 7am the sun has been up for several hours, and in the winter it is still pitch black.
Spring forward, then leave it there.
F…. Congress. They don’t know sh…. Have nothing to do and come up with a bill. Stupid idea. What a waste! Use your brain and come up important issue. 😂😂😂
Please god, just do it. More light in the evenings.
I cannot accurately communicate the feeling of immense uncomfortable pain with I feel with words knowing that the government or politicians get to decide our sleep. Also all the science points towards standard time being better than day light savings time, doesn’t matter what your argument or feeling is. Extremely disturbing how hard it is for people to understand. This is probably the only world or political issue I actually care about and it might go down the wrong way. I don’t remember the last time I woke up without pain.
Yep, years later people go to the doctor and say what’s wrong with me? For many conditions the answer is you ignored biology your whole life.
Debates for a day then gets forgotten about until next time change.
Cause humans today are stupid. Back then the indians only till time that its dawn is dawn, sunset is sunset and get home before dark. There no such thing 1 hour forward and backward. Smh. Especially is a german thing started this and all stupid humans start following it lmao
Day light savings is a joke
MORE LIGHT IN THE EVENING EVERYBODY WANTS THAT
It’s what Men and children want . It is not healthy for women
@Furthermore Jack ….. you’re remedial huh
Everyone wants more light in the morning. Winter will be real dark in the mornings if the time is not standard time.
We will solve other nations’ problems before we solve our own.
Didn’t Nixon try something about this stuff and it failed and had to be reversed?
Yes it sure did. It failed miserably, and it will fail this time too if they do it. It needs to be standard time all year long. Time needs to be accurate, not corrupted by crooked politicians.
You guys may be picking the wrong time .Studies have shown daylight further into the night increases risk of breast cancer in women . Plus kids stay up way later
Watching this at 1:59 a.m. and now it’s 3:02 a.m. Please do away with the time change!
They want to stay This timing … More daylight into the night
Just give me an extra hour of sleep 💤 😴
people who are sitting on top should end this stupidity!!!!
Make DST permanent ASAP! Standard Time is a joke. It gets dark at 4:45 in the afternoon during the winter. How can anyone want that?
The people who want Standard Time are mostly living on the western edges of the time zone
I live in Tennessee and I hope today is the last time and I hated the November change
This crap again
No one control time wake up people
end day saving time! DO NOT make it permanent!!!! because if you make it permanent our kids will be getting out of school when is too dark outside during the winter! is dangerous!!! they are not thinking right!
Well, the Americans aren’t happier than those living places without daylight saving. Thus pls, stop this nonsense
That’s good news I’m tired of changing time each the time changed
No. I won’t let Congress to make and reintroducing the bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent because of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. I want Daylight Saving Time continue every year temporarily to change the clock. Leave it alone. It cannot be renewed in Congress anymore. I won’t let Congress to pass the Sunshine Protection Act bill. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Representative Vern Buchanan has gone too far. They make a big mistake. They were party to defrauding the United States Senate and the election. They both stupid and crazy. They violated the Uniform Time Act of 1966, signed by President Lyndon Johnson. I demand Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Vern Buchanan of Florida to resign or they’ll be removed from Congress to face charges and be ousted. They’ll be at the Disciplinary Committee of Congress.
Pass it you dumb politicians!
Please pass this congress for the love of Christ, then my seasonal depression can finally go away for good.
Your seasonal depression isn’t caused by DST. It’s caused by a moronic abnormality in the frontal lobe. I believe they have a procedure now that doesn’t take very long and is quite effective…Ask your doctor about a frontal lobotomy. I’m sure that will help.
Hmmmmm.
Squirrel!
If I had to pick a time to go to permanently, it would be Standard Time. I’m not a morning person and I hate the idea of waking up in the winter and sunrise isn’t until 8 or 8:30 (where I’m at in Texas). I need some morning sun to help me wake up & get going.
Extra evening sun isn’t worth super dark mornings to me.
literally not that deep bro
IS THERE SOME SORT OF DEBT CEILING ON TIME ALSO?I guess if things get outta control we’ll just stop borrowing for next year.
*TIME WON’T LET ME*
(Outsiders Song Parody 1966)
I can’t turn my clock back
Even though you want me too
I don’t like changing time
You know it isn’t true
Time won’t let me
Time won’t let me
Time won’t let me do that crime
Can’t you see the folly
Saving time
To save an hour of sun
Time won’t let me
Time won’t let me
Time won’t let me, golly
Standard Time forever
Is the best that we can do
Daylight time is never
You know it to be true
Time won’t let you
Time won’t let you
Time won’t let you sing that tune
It won’t let you sing that tune.
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
(Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t sing that tune)
1966/2023 Chet Kelley / Thomas R King /Bruce Kiskaddon
are we really a democracy
No we are a constitutional republic with democratic representation.
The length of the day and the amount of sunlight in the day naturally get longer as we go through spring and into summer, even if we left the clocks alone. Daylight “saving” Time is unnatural and man-manipulated. It is so harmful and detrimental to people and wildlife. Imagine being a deer and used to the quiet and calm in the early morning, and then all of a sudden the cars and headlights and noise come an hour earlier…there are undoubtedly more accidents and deer killed the morning after Daylight “saving” Time. And how about being awake and alert driving into work on a Monday morning? Is that not important? Instead, we opt to be forced to get on the road an hour earlier, (still dark for a lot of people), drive still half asleep, and then get the sun directly shining in our eyes instead of being higher in the sky. No wonder there’s so many accidents the day after the time change, not to mention strokes, heart attacks, suicides, homicides, depression, etc. . And how about school kids? Does anyone care about them? Their safety? They will be walking to and standing at the bus stop in the dark the morning after the time change, not to mention, half asleep and discombobulated for their classes. How does this help them in their studies? And how about construction workers, landscapers, anyone working outdoors? It’s no fun, not possible, and dangerous for these people to be working out in the cold and dark. But who cares right? We get to get off work and have daylight til nine o’clock at night so we can mow the grass, ride our bicycles with are tight little bicycle shorts on, or go play golf with our pink under armour golf shirts on, or sit out at our outdoor cafes and sip Chardonnay all evening. I think it’s time for America to get more serious about things and get our priorities in order. We need to get to work, not play. Our country is in bad shape, and changing the clocks to serve our selfish desires is not going to help. And now our fearless leaders are trying to keep Daylight “saving” Time all year long. That would mean it will be dark in the winter until 9-9:30 in the morning! This is asinine! We should stay on Standard Time,(normal time), the time the rest of the world goes by, all the time.
Seriously pathetic how long it takes to vote on this!
Permanent daylight saving time start in march 2023 and wont fall back again in november 2023
I love daylight savings time I really don’t like moving the clock back a hour
This sucks
If the two sides can’t agree which is better, permanent standard time or permanent Daylight Saving time, split the difference and move the clocks just 30 minutes! 😅 And while we are at it, ditch the time zones and go with UTC (Universal Time Coordinated)! Time zones are cumbersome and silly.
Pure stupidity in modern society. Get rid of it!
Government doesn’t tell me what my clock says. If we the people refuse to do what Gubberment says and DO NOT turn our clocks forward or backward, then the gubberment has to follow suit. There are more of we the people then senators and representatives never forget that.
I like Daylight savings time; its standard time that I absolutely hate and im glad we are finally back on DST. Losing an hour of light at night for an hour of extra light in the morning sucks, in my opinion. Where I live, because of standard time (Nov 6th through March 11), there is days were i leave for work when its dark and leave work in the dark but w/ DST, id at least get to drive home while the sun is up. If it was standard time all year, there would be days in the summer where itd be light out around 4am when most are still asleep and dark around 7pm.
No agree with daylight saving. It’s totally nonsense.
Sick of the dⱥmn darkness, winter is already depressing as it is
I’m moving to Hawaii
I really don’t mind DST but see that it has some negatives.
Daylight saving time & imperial system 🤣🤣 America never disappoints
Our ” Do Nothing Congress ” will continue to handle a decision on the time the same way…do nothing. The health profession says permanent Standard Time. I agree.
Get up at 5 now I’m getting up at 4 this is crazy and it doesn’t make any since change the dog on thing already and stop playing games !!!!!