I know the US isn't alone in the practice of Daylight Savings. If you don't know wha tit is, most of the country moves their clocks forward an hour in the winter because darkness falls earlier in the day.

I live in AZ and get plenty of sun. We don't do Daylight Savings and I'm glad that we don't have to hassle with the semiannual changing of clocks.

Just found out there is a bill in Congress to make it permanent across the country. It just passed unanimously in the Senate. WHY!?!?

Why can't you just get up an hour earlier and save all the daylight on your own? Also, do you have nothing better to do?

No more having artificial jet lag twice a year and feeling sick from it for weeks? I'll take it...

Ah, yes, I would prefer to just abandon daylight savings time over making it permanent personally. Still, getting rid of the change is much more important than whether to keep normal time or permanent daylight savings.

And since people are stupid and you could not have convinced them in a 100 years to take away the daylight they need for their BBQs at night - this is really the best we could have hoped for.

I like sunset at 9pm thank you....

If only we had some sort of... medium... where we could coordinate things and communicate with people to changes in schedule.

But alas, as far as I know, outside of federal laws, schools have no way of telling parents if their school days will be cancelled, half days, or hour late, or any number of variation in hours.

Alas, snow days occur only on federal recognized snow days.

And, also, hilariously, 99% of all businesses have changed their hours during COVID and surprise, the world kept ticking by just fine. I live in Nashville... a literal city... with sprawling blocks of concrete as far as the eye can see. And most food closes at 9 PM "due to COVID". 9 PM ON SATURDAY IN THE CITY?! When I was younger (in a smaller city) you could get asian food delivered at 2 AM.

Further, banks have been opening at 9:05 (after you get to work, no time before) till like 4:30 PM (screw you, before you get off) since forever. Also, hilariously in Japan, the ATM machines close at 9 PM so the machines may rest after a hard day of work in preparation for the next day.

If your state/city/house gets really dark early, the solution is to schedule it during daylight not change the meaning of the numbers themselves. Especially because the entire rest of the world isn't changing their numbers with you so now you have to memorize not only your timezone but also whether you're in a DST zone (and whether THEY are) and subtract or add to both.

Heck, imagine if we changed Metric units of distance, or weight based on the time of year. "Oh this is Summer Gas, so we're going to use summer gallons." (fun fact: Summer gas, meaning a summer blend of does exist but it's not measured differently)

The fact DST has lasted this long is a perfect example of how crippled and pathetic our governments really are. A policy with no real-world application that exists solely because it has become a sacred ritual that people follow. If we cannot even agree to get rid of a pointless exercise like DST, imagine how many other laws on the books we follow "because that's the way we do it?"