Georgia House passes permanent daylight saving time bill

[left-of-center2012]

The state House of Representatives Monday approved Senate Bill 100, which could eventually switch Georgia to year-round daylight saving time. It’s the Legislature’s latest attempt to end the twice-annual changing of the clocks that annoys many residents.

... it authorizes permanent daylight saving time once Congress allows it.

The revised measure passed by a vote of 111 to 48. It now goes back to the Senate.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-state-legislature/georgia-house-passes-permanent-daylight-savings-time-bill/KMOZ3ZZEN5BERPOKBG4ETH5IUA/

[TheRealNorth]

1. Putting aside valid reasons for or against DST.....

Republicans are pandering to their elderly, technologically incompetent base that can't figure out how to change a clock (even though most things hooked up to the internet will do that automatically now).

I guess that one of the other reasons for DST was energy efficiency, which is something that Republicans are also against.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Better to be on permanent standard time.

Or set the switch to and from DST to more sensible dates. Mid April to late September is what I'd go for.

[TDale313]

3. California tried this a few years ago. Passed it.

It was shot down (I think at the federal level) on the grounds that there was no mechanism to allow states to stay on Daylight Savings time year round. They could do the twice yearly change or stay on standard, but not daylight savings year round.

[Blues Heron]

4. "the clock struck 13"

So Orwellian to renumber the clock like this.