Project 2025: No More DST!

Think this will happen by 2026?

OK, so the punctuation is confusing me here. The commas would appear to be making his statement say that the Republicans will use their best efforts to eliminate DST, but shouldn't do that and then he goes on to say that DST is inconvenient and expensive, which would be an argument for eliminating the time change.

Farmers and nature are governed by the sun, not a timepiece. The clock is for the industrial world, and DST allows those that inhabit that space to enjoy more of their time away from work in a naturally lit environment during the most enjoyable seasonable temperatures in our hemisphere. I, personally, would much prefer permanent DST to permanent Standard time if the congress critters are set on eliminating the practice of springing forward and falling back.

One of the reasons for DST was that kids walking to school in the dark were getting killed by cars. These days parents deliver children to school.

Actually, that was the argument for not going to DST year round. By advancing the clocks an hour, the sun rises later in the day during the winter months and children are making their way to school in the dark.

The “spring forward” period usually starts around vernal equinox, the arrival of spring. On 1Jan 2025 the sun will rise at around 0721 hours, on 10 March 2025, after we “spring forward”, the sun will rise at 0721 hours, so there is no discernible change with regards to the kids on their way to school.

Staying on DST year round would have them going to school an hour plus before the sun rose at 0821 hours on 1January.

On “standard time”, the sun would be rising at 0432 and setting at 1930 around the end of June. DST has the sun rising at 0532 and setting at 2030, giving the kids an extra hour outside to play before bedtime when they are out of school.