Nineteen states have passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent. But those laws won’t take effect until Congress makes it legal. And the medical community sees one major problem.
Nineteen states have passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent. But those laws won’t take effect until Congress makes it legal. And the medical community sees one major problem.
I mean you’re not wrong, but its also a larger societal thing which ends up meaning government who negotiates such things. Its not just work, but school start times and bus schedules, public transport times, parking fees/times. It balloons out a bit, so its easier to have some official stance. However, it doesn’t have to be federal, and could just be local municipal governments.
In general, though. Yes, individuals could just shift what they do, and this is exactly what humans did for a long time. The industrial revolution changed us so that we needed to coordinate and regiment societal schedules, and here we are now.
For the sake of sanity please no… I can only imagine a bunch of rural vs city splits where some county decides they should be in rooster time vs their neighbors.
Oh I agree it would be utter chaos! The idea that “why does it take an act of congress to change time” on the one hand sounds crazy, but I think what I’m trying to point out is why it takes an actual act of congress — we are coordinating lots of services and activities, and no one wants to descend back to the days of no one agreeing on noon!
You raise some good points. Though technically there are local regulations already. Most of Arizona, for instance, ignores DST. They have plenty of Sun - no need to save it…