Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "'Time has come': Vote to make daylight saving time permanent passes US Senate" video.

  1. So, instead of being out-of-synch with the global time zones for half of the year, we will be out-of-synch permanently. Is there a plan to re-draw the time zone maps?
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  2. 20 million smoke detectors will stop working, how is that safer?
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  3. Eastern time will become effectively central time permanently. In the 60's we just had standard time, no switching about, we had what the time zone intended.
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  4.  @jimantonino4394  Even worse
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  5. That is what the established time ones were for. Will we expect the rest of the world to adapt?
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  6. They should stop the changing and return to standard time all year.
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  7. With daylight savings time, one time zone on our coast effectively ceases to exist (for the US)
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  8. That would allow people to make choices; the government makes the choices.
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  9.  @itsnotthesamething  So, "noon" will be detached from the position of the sun in the sky.
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  10. @Johnny Rep This is certainly true for Central Standard Time. We're about to make that worse by one hour.
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  11. Well, the East Coast will now be on CST.
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