Omg, please for the love of everything, get rid of the time change.
I don't care which way they pick, just get rid of it. It's absolutely useless.
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Omg, please for the love of everything, get rid of the time change.
I don't care which way they pick, just get rid of it. It's absolutely useless.
Compromise and make DST permanent but 30 minutes ahead.
Jesus Christ a Republican I agree with, what year is it?!
An election year.
Don't do it. Daylight savings time saves 366 lives a year from traffic accidents alone Coate and Markowitz which while isn't that much is still worth the inconvenience.
Also, 2015 paper from the Brookings Institute claims a 7% drop in crime, when they extended by 4 weeks, we saved 60 million dollars. If we account for indirect costs like those of murder, rape, we get 246 million saved (Popular Mechanics)
Basically more light is good
Why do you say "Don't do it." And then say a bunch of things that agree it would be good? This proposal is advocating for making daylight saving time permanent.