Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Why It's a Bad Idea

Of course, there is no “extra hour of sunshine” in the day.

Andy Woodruff also published an interactive tool that showsfull-year statistics on sunrises and sunsets.

One of the original reasons for daylight saving time,to save energy, is marginal at best.

Research in 2017 examining 44 studies foundoverall electricity savings of 0.34%.

Indeed, the American public itself is perhaps the biggest obstacle to a permanent daylight saving time.

One partial fix for the problems of permanent DST would be to start schools later.

But there’s a kernel of wisdom to the idea.

Thin political support for daylight saving

The swift, decisive Senate vote surprised and worried me.

It signaled broad support for a policy I despised.

But it turns out the vote wasn’t as unanimous as it initially appeared.

We have plenty of cultural divides these days beyond just the gulf between Democrats and Republicans.

Plenty of people do like DST, and they’re not necessarily unhinged or irrational.

Another shares my displeasure at getting kids to school in the dark.

I hate to say it, but I don’t see any easy solution.