End of daylight saving time inches closer in California

[Future]

Blame Ben Franklin.

Blame Canada!

 

[Brownsocks]

Blame Canada!

Blame Trump! Lol.

 

[oldngray]

Blame global warming.

 

[Future]

Blame global warming.

Yes!

 

[Wally]

Never heard my parent or grandparents generation beef about changing the clock twice a year? I guess they were too busy enjoying the extra daylight in the evening? Otherwise sunrise starts around 5 am.

 

[Future]

Never heard my parent or grandparents generation beef about changing the clock twice a year? I guess they were too busy enjoying the extra daylight in the evening? Otherwise sunrise starts around 5 am.

Pros and cons I guess …it was originated for the mass farming industry back in the day

 

[Wally]

Pros and cons I guess …it was originated for the mass farming industry back in the day

What cons for any UPS driver?

 

[oldngray]

Pros and cons I guess …it was originated for the mass farming industry back in the day

No logical reason for it now. It probably ends up costing more money than it saves.

 

[Wally]

No logical reason for it now. It probably ends up costing more money than it saves.

I love it. Gives me time to mow the lawn after work.

 

[Wally]

No logical reason for it now. It probably ends up costing more money than it saves.

 

[Up In Smoke]

I love it. Gives me time to mow the lawn after work.

??? You mow your lawn between November and March??

 

[oldngray]

??? You mow your lawn between November and March??

He loves to mow more than Forrest Gump

 

[UnionStrong]

No logical reason for it now. It probably ends up costing more money than it saves.

Gotta go. Az doesn’t do it, nobody cares

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Gotta go. Az doesn’t do it, nobody cares

WDFD

 

[DOK]

Who else hates daylight saving.

End of daylight saving time inches closer in California
BY TARYN LUNA

June 14, 2018 01:50 PM

Updated June 15, 2018 08:27 AM

California voters may get a chance to weigh in on daylight saving time in November.

The state Senate on Thursday approved a proposal to ask voters to repeal a 70-year-old initiative that set a biannual clock change in California and give lawmakers the power to adjust the time with a two-thirds vote.

“If signed by the governor, the bill will bring California closer to abolishing the outdated practice of switching our clocks in the fall and spring," said Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D- San Jose, who introduced Assembly Bill 807.

Foes of the practice shouldn't celebrate just yet. The state cannot officially end daylight saving time until next year, at the earliest. The process is best described as complicated and would require a second bill and federal approval, according to analysis from the Legislature.

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AB 807 asks voters to repeal a 1949 ballot measure, the Daylight Saving Time Act, that established Standard Pacific Time in California. The older measure also required the state to advance the clock one hour on the last Sunday in April and set it back on the last Sunday of September. Voters later adjusted the fall back period to the last Sunday in October.

Today California conforms with federal mandates on daylight saving time by setting the clock ahead on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November. The state never changed the law, and AB 807, with voter approval, would alter the statute to match the current practice.

The Assembly passed AB 807 last year and is expected to sign off again on amendments made in the Senate. Then the bill heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.

Chu's ultimate goal is to stop the clock change altogether. He and others before him have argued that doing away with daylight saving time improves public health. But the state would have to jump through several additional hoops next year to officially scrap it.



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AB 807 allows the Legislature to amend daylight saving time with a two-thirds vote in the future. If voters approve the ballot measure, Chu, or another lawmaker, would need to introduce a new bill to establish a permanent daylight saving time.

The new proposal would have to clear the Senate and the Assembly and receive the governor's signature. Then Congress would have to take action to sanction the law an


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Are they keeping it standard time, which would mean we would keep the clocks how they are November through March and not spring forward in the spring? Confused.

 

[UnionStrong]

Are they keeping it standard time, which would mean we would keep the clocks how they are November through March and not spring forward in the spring? Confused.

Hopefully

 

[DOK]

Hopefully

Most of us on the east coast prefer daylight savings time, stays lighter out in the evenings. In December here the sun sets around 4:30ish. Keeping daylight savings time would mean it would set at 5:30pm here which we would prefer. Wonder what the nationwide consensus is.

 

[UnionStrong]

Most of us on the east coast prefer daylight savings time, stays lighter out in the evenings. In December here the sun sets around 4:30ish. Keeping daylight savings time would mean it would set at 5:30pm here which we would prefer. Wonder what the nationwide consensus is.

Lol the sun sets at the same time everywhere.

 

[UnionStrong]

Most of us on the east coast prefer daylight savings time, stays lighter out in the evenings. In December here the sun sets around 4:30ish. Keeping daylight savings time would mean it would set at 5:30pm here which we would prefer. Wonder what the nationwide consensus is.

Yeah, same here in Arizona. lol

 

[Wally]

??? You mow your lawn between November and March??

We are not on daylight savings time then?

Northern California is equal to New York in longitude. DST works well for them.