[ale] Stupid people and DST

[Raj Wurttemberg]

On a positive note… Governor Kemp signed a bill making daylight saving time
permanent in Georgia.



https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/permanent-daylight-saving-time-bill-signed-into-law-georgia/J7TKTZJY4ZGCBIEHH3KFPFXGXA/



Unfortunately… from the same article… “Current federal law prohibits states
from observing daylight saving time year-round.”  Sooo… This has to go to
D.C. to get voted on there also.



/Raj

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 3:16 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> As most functioning adults know, the annual stupidity action happened at
> 2am Sunday: yes, we changed the numbers on the clocks "so we could get more
> sunshine".
>
> Begin Rant
>
> Did anyone with access to writing in a national news medium ever actually
> take basic science? Did anyone with policy making responsibility actually
> pass a science class in their life?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> The time shift never made any sense. Now that there's a fair amount of
> evidence that is has a detrimental impact on human health maybe we should
> get rid of it. Yay! Great idea!
>
> But to shift permanently to DST "to get more sunshine" is just dumb.
>
> The east coast of USA (Unbelievably Stupid Authorities) is 5 time zones
> away from the UTC zone. Not 4.
>
> Maybe we can get policy punks to take an astronomy class and learn about
> things like axial tilt being the reason the planet has seasons and that
> determines the length of time the sun is visible above the horizon.
>
> And if they still want more sunshine, and moving them to the equator is
> not an option (current occupants will ship them back), maybe we can ship
> them to Mercury.
>
> End Rant
>
>
>
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