Nice to see a time zone post on this list. ;) I actually don’t think this is a bad idea. It satisfies the desire of most Americans to stop changing the clocks, and it strikes a balance between people who want more evening daylight in winter and those like me who don't want absurdly late sunrises in winter, which is the source of greatest conflict in the US. It might be the only proposal that has a chance of success.
The half-hour offsets would be a bit of a mental adjustment, but we’d adapt; something like 20 percent of the world’s population seems to get along with them today. The proposed 90-day window, of course, is a horrible idea. Steube and others who support that part of the bill have absolutely no idea of the chaos this would cause. The right approach would be to spring forward as usual two weeks from now, then fall back on November 1 as planned, and then spring forward half an hour on March 14, 2027 and leave it there. -- Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
