'Stop the clock': GOP, Dems come together to end Daylight Saving over health, economic risks

[mystery-ak]

'Stop the clock': GOP, Dems come together to end Daylight Saving over health, economic risks
'It's time to figure this out,' said Democratic Sen Lisa Blunt-Rochester
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published April 10, 2025 12:48pm EDT

In 1957, rockabilly singer Bob Ehret repeated, "We’ve got to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you" — and in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle strongly considered the benefits of doing so, in a way.

Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Daylight Saving was grounded in good-faith efforts to reduce energy consumption, but that instead it has led to increased auto accidents in the dark, workplace issues and objections from the agriculture sector that relies on early-morning sunlight.

"We find ourselves adjusting our clocks… springing forward and falling back in the fall. For many Americans, this biannual ritual is a minor inconvenience… But when we take a closer look at the implications of changing the clocks, its impact on our economy, our health and our everyday lives, we can see that this practice is more than an annoyance," Cruz said.

"The idea was simple. Fewer hours of darkness meant less electricity consumption for lighting and heating."

However, unlike the early 1900s, when the U.S. economy was heavily reliant on energy consumption tied to daylight hours, today’s effects from sunrise and sunset timings are "de minimis," he said.

Cruz, along with Massachusetts neurology physician Dr. Karin Johnson, spoke about the health concerns associated with changing the time twice a year and with the permanence of Daylight Saving Time (DST), versus Standard Time.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stop-clock-gop-dems-come-together-end-daylight-saving-over-health-economic-risks

[Bigun]

'Stop the clock': GOP, Dems come together to end Daylight Saving over health, economic risks
'It's time to figure this out,' said Democratic Sen Lisa Blunt-Rochester
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published April 10, 2025 12:48pm EDT

In 1957, rockabilly singer Bob Ehret repeated, "We’ve got to stop the clock, baby; to spend more time with you" — and in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle strongly considered the benefits of doing so, in a way.

Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Daylight Saving was grounded in good-faith efforts to reduce energy consumption, but that instead it has led to increased auto accidents in the dark, workplace issues and objections from the agriculture sector that relies on early-morning sunlight.

"We find ourselves adjusting our clocks… springing forward and falling back in the fall. For many Americans, this biannual ritual is a minor inconvenience… But when we take a closer look at the implications of changing the clocks, its impact on our economy, our health and our everyday lives, we can see that this practice is more than an annoyance," Cruz said.

"The idea was simple. Fewer hours of darkness meant less electricity consumption for lighting and heating."

However, unlike the early 1900s, when the U.S. economy was heavily reliant on energy consumption tied to daylight hours, today’s effects from sunrise and sunset timings are "de minimis," he said.

Cruz, along with Massachusetts neurology physician Dr. Karin Johnson, spoke about the health concerns associated with changing the time twice a year and with the permanence of Daylight Saving Time (DST), versus Standard Time.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stop-clock-gop-dems-come-together-end-daylight-saving-over-health-economic-risks

 

[Sighlass]

Except I want more daylight in the evening... so I imagine they are going to go the opposite direction I would want.

[andy58-in-nh]

Except I want more daylight in the evening... so I imagine they are going to go the opposite direction I would want.

I can't wait until the sun's up here at 4:00am in June... almost makes me wish I had some cows to milk. 

[rustynail]

No vote just talk.  Same as every year.

[Bigun]

I can't wait until the sun's up here at 4:00am in June... almost makes me wish I had some cows to milk.

I don't care where they put it as long as they put it there and leave it there!

[Sighlass]

I can't wait until the sun's up here at 4:00am in June... almost makes me wish I had some cows to milk. 

Yeah, NO... but looks like it is going that direction... Uggg, give me sunlight fading at 9 pm...

[DefiantMassRINO]

Please move Eastern Massachusetts to the Atlantic Time Zone - in the Winter, the sun will set at 5:00 PM instead of 4:00 PM.

[roamer_1]

Oh HAPPY DAY! Not that it will ever happen. Just the burden of changing all the computers that automagically update for DST would make it prohibitive.

Y'all make me laugh.

I come from a land where 'the sun comes up at about 10 in the morning, and the sun goes down at about 3 in the day'

The sun behind the mountains means far more dusk than most of you folks ever see. And a hella long dawn. Here we live in the gloaming.

Add to that the far north - While MT don't have it like Canada or AK, we have it some. In the summer we have light from 4am till well past 10pm, maybe 11... In the winter there isn't light till maybe after 8 am, and dark by 4pm.

Now, just for sh*ts and giggles, throw DST into all of that. 

[Wingnut]

Compromise.  Just move it 1/2 hour between the two.  Then no one will be happy which is what congress is all about.

[Cyber Liberty]

I can't say one way or another because I live in Arizona.  I wouldn't like being forced into DST though, because the sun would set at a ridiculous time in the evening.

[Smokin Joe]

I don't care where they put it as long as they put it there and leave it there!

Right. Between the shift from 16 hours of dark to 16 hours of daylight (winter to summer), and them screwing with the clocks, it gets disorienting. Put a number on it and let's get on with the show.

[Smokin Joe]

I can't say one way or another because I live in Arizona.  I wouldn't like being forced into DST though, because the sun would set at a ridiculous time in the evening.

Not unusual to have sunset in midsummer here after 10 PM...Try rounding the kids up for bedtime...

[rustynail]

Could they do same with temperature?  Twenty degrees cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter?

[Smokin Joe]

Could they do same with temperature?  Twenty degrees cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter?

Fahrenheit in winter, Celsius in summer?