End Daylight Savings Time Change

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The Sunshine Protect Act passed the Senate in 2022. It never passed the House despite being introduced multiple times.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida recently asked again to pass a bill he introduced that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide in November 2024.

The reasons the USA started daylight savings time no longer applies. Further, there are health implications (higher car accidents, strokes, heart attacks during the week of the time change). Lastly, it impacts everyone daily schedule, sleep and more. “The medical and scientific communities are unified … that permanent standard time is better for human health,” said Erik Herzog, a professor of biology and neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis.

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I am here for it. I grew up in Indiana where there was no Daylight Savings Time. As an adult, using daylight savings has been more of nuisance than anything else.

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The science is clear. Standard time is the only healthy time there is. Supporters of DST are like the smokers and drinkers of yesteryear, they all screamed and cried during debates about drinking and driving and smoking indoors. We should not let DST supporters dictate things for the rest of us today any more than we did smokers and drinkers in the past.