https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-07-14/house-passes-bill-to-ditch-the-switch-and-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent Personally? I'm thinking that you can't get 60 legislatures in the upper house to agree to ANYTHING, but that's all we need to end DST forever -or continue it forever.....depending on how one looks at these things. Bets? Thoughts?
Approve the switch in Congress, then a separate ballot measure as to which one to keep. I would vote for standard time.
There's already a fish-slapping contest under way about that. I'm thinking that the new bill would make DST permanent but I'm not emotionally involved enough to know for sure or care very much about it. If I were King for a day, I would "fall back" 30 minutes this fall and make that permanent until the issue was settled by a Constitutional Amendment or a veto-proof bill. I predict that this 'not-a-law' might just face a tougher slog in the Upper House than people might think JUST BECAUSE of who would have to sign it into law......or NOT sign it....as things go in these 'enlightened times.'
British Columbia, Canada, has gone to permanent daylight saving time, as of spring of this year. My preference would have been permanent standard time, because it places noon at the suns high point in the sky, it’s traditional, it’s brighter for kids off to school on a winter morn, and adults off to work for that matter. Ah well.
Meh. The thermostats in my house already understand the switch. I'm not sure I'll be able to obtain a firmware update with the changed rules. So if they take away the time switch, I may end up having to change the time on my thermostats twice a year. Or buy new ones. I suppose that's better than if they kept standard and daylight time but changed the rules for when to switch. That would leave me resetting the thermostats four times a year.
Changing to DST here permanently, in the middle of the Pacific? If it actually chgs HST (more than likely not), then prefer std time instead. If you're a farmer and depended on DST, then adjust your schedule against std time, rather than drag the rest of the country not in ag, along with you. The concept's been obsolete how many generations now...?
