Passions always run high with the topic of daylight saving time, but the system we’ve had for decades works for a reason, writes Robert Gehrke.
Passions always run high with the topic of daylight saving, but the system we’ve had for decades works for a reason, Gehrke says.We live in a polarized society and yet there is one issue above all others that will make people want to gouge each other’s eyes out — daylight saving time.
“Mine was a states rights play where, do we really need the federal government to tell us what time it is?” he told me. We could simply have “Utah time.” On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate, which normally can’t agree on much of anything, including the time of day,, beginning in 2023. The delay was built in to let airlines and other companies that need precise times to update their systems.
There certainly are some compelling reasons to get rid of it. Studies have found that springing forward takes a toll on the body andAnd there are economic arguments, specifically that the disruption in our schedules hurts productivity and that the energy savings — one of the arguments used to justify daylight saving in the first place — are negligible, if any.and there are considerably fewer traffic accidents — which makes sense because it’s easier to drive during daylight hours.
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