The Federal Bureau of Time finally did something!
It was really different to have all is siblings together and running a house for my parents. But that was five years ago now.
Arizona will persist on Mountain Standard, though we all understand that's a fig leaf and in reality the state has conquered by Pacific time after decades of struggle.
My wife really doesn't get the concept of siblings on anything but an intellectual level. It's strange.
That's remarkable... I think the last time the three of us were together with my parents was November, and the last time in the ancestral home was... also November.
It's s very small island with good train service.
My nuclear family split in 1992, but since we were only a helium nucleus it hasn't been that unusual for my sister and I to get together with one parent or the other.
My mom, whose woes I posted about in one of the check-in threads, has been doing much much better since we went out to see her a few weeks back.
It makes me really sad because we all get along really well and have a blast when we're together. We could've/should've been getting together yearly and enjoyed all this time together.
Also all five of us were there for maybe 15 hours total.
We're renting a house at the beach this summer to get together.
We don't even have a parents' house.
Since the Pacific coast states move to Mountain Standard Time during daylight saving time, which is Arizona's permanent time zone, Arizona would always be aligned with those states instead of being an hour ahead of them during the winter months if the bill is signed into law.
That article is correct about the time zones using current definitions, but those definitions would change under the Senate bill:
(b) Advancement Of Standard Time.--
(1) IN GENERAL.--The second sentence of subsection (a) of section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918 (commonly known as the "Calder Act") (15 U.S.C. 261), is amended--
(A) by striking "4 hours" and inserting "3 hours";
(B) by striking "5 hours" and inserting "4 hours"; [etc.]
So what is now Pacific Daylight would be renamed Pacific Standard, and Arizona would be one hour behind the new Mountain Standard - effectively in the Pacific zone as 3 said.
I don't want to be in the same time zone as Indiana. Does the new system fix that.
On the repeal of standard time, I don't know where that will go in the house.
I should have thoughts on the interest rate, but I just don't.
I'm mildly skeptical the DST bill will get through the House, but even if it does and takes effect I'm skeptical it'll take any better than the last time we tried this back in the '70s. People think they hate the time change, and adjusting the clocks is somewhat annoying, but what they actually hate is winter.
The article in 3 doesn't mention what the Navajos will do if this passes. If they stick with current practice, the Reservation will be on permanent (new) Mountain Time while the rest of Arizona is on permanent Pacific Time.
The rest of Arizona in this case including the Hopi Reservation, btw. In the summer it's currently possible to drive about 200 miles entirely within the state of Arizona and have the time change 8 times.
19: Isn't that basically going from 65% of the year being different to 100%?
The Senate didn't vote to repeal DST, they voted to make it permanent year-round. I'm against this! I want year-round standard time. I hate waking up in the dark, and I like dusk to fall at a reasonable hour in the summer. You can't make everyone happy I guess. It's still better than losing an hour of my life every spring.
Oh man, apparently this only went through because Rubio's office pulled a fast one and exploited a loophole in Senate procedure.
Parent of 5, all now in their 30s. Having them and spouses/partners/significant others plus 2 grandkids together in our family home a couple times a year are the happiest moments in my life. Even when they're ragging on each other for dumb stuff. On the other hand, my wife's sister lives 2 miles away and we see her maybe once or twice a year.
I was going to post the link in 23, which I find hilarious.
Why doesn't this happen all the time? Because of traditions of senate decorum, as otherwise each faction would have to have someone babysitting the floor at all times to object to every request for unanimous consent. Congrats to senator Rubio's staff for making the place one click more dysfunctional!
Was that an exploit? It looks like senators were notified and either they slept on the switch or their staff did.
It's an exploit because they went ahead and actually did it when the expected objection fell through rather than finding someone else to object.
13: Speaking of, I think people who live in NYC or DC and write opinion pieces about how much they like DST, because it makes the sun set later, should be forced to move to Indiana.
Nobody should be forced to live in Indiana. Monster.
30: I live in Ohio, and I like DST. But I think there should also be laws stating schools need to start later.
I was just with all my siblings in September of last year for a family reunion/baby shower. But the last time I was with my siblings without their spouses -- well, I think that was probably over 35 years ago, before they were all married.
People think they hate the time change, and adjusting the clocks is somewhat annoying, but what they actually hate is winter.
That's probably true, and that's why so few people are motivated to do anything about global warming.
Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool. A helpful map to fuel the argument. For example, you can easily see who gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop.*
* New England, of course.
I don't like going to work in the dark, but I hate getting off work and it's nighttime already, and I've wasted my life.
I'll sign it "Woody Hayes, Jr. Certified practitioner of public healthiness. "
I'd like to see a push to return to whatever that Roman calendar was where there are 10 months and then some indeterminate "winter". Also Ides.
My birthday is in one of the bullshit months they added.
What about the Mayan one where they get to 2012 and start over?
The pontifex can tell us when to change the clocks and how far forward or back based on the auguries.
Give me a sheep liver instead of that nonsense.
People think they hate the time change, and adjusting the clocks is somewhat annoying, but what they actually hate is winter.
Or commuting. Or working. I didn't hate Standard Time as much last year when I was purely working from home and not stuck in the middle of a cubicle farm until released into darkness.
In the same week as our extremely rare nuclear family reunion, we had to make plans to put my mom's dog down (she stopped eating on Monday, although she is still drinking water and tottering around occasionally to find my mom), and then yesterday my dad was removed from his director positions (after 32 years) and more or less forced into emeritus status (after 45 years). So it's been an intense week. (Not bad exactly, and I was glad to be there for the harder parts, but still intense.)
48: Last Dog is a sad milestone for me - when parents/grandparents realize that any replacement pet might well outlive them or they could no longer take good care of an animal if their health declined. I'm sorry.
That's why I'm worried about my tortoise.
51: Are there any younger lurkers out there willing to take on a pet tortoise once Moby gets too infirm to take the tortoise out for a daily walk?
(pretty sure everyone that comments here is too old for this to work)
30: Moved from NY to Indiana and love the way daylight works here! (Of course it'll depend a lot on your job and daily schedule.)
50: Amy MIL got a corgi shortly before my FIL got sick. It really helped her when he died, especially the lonely months after COVID. Corgis can live 15 or 16 years, so everyone figures it might outlive her. When Tim's brother had a second kid, they had to send their dog to the grandparents. One day they forgot to take him out for a walk. That poor dog was so stressed, because the 18 month old was running around the apartment all day, and then the newborn was up all night, and it never got to sleep. It had been an anxious dog it's whole life and would moan all day when left alone in a crate. Moving in with retired people with another dog, was peaceful. Tim's brother figures that he'll probably have to return the favor. She's in an apartment now, and they have a house.