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Florida could keep daylight saving time all year under 'Sunshine Protection Act'

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Florida could keep daylight saving time all year under 'Sunshine Protection Act'
Ever get bummed out that the sun sets so early after daylight saving time ends in the fall?

You're not alone.
One state lawmaker agrees, and he's pushing to keep Florida on daylight time permanently.
State Sen. Darren Soto has filed a bill that would mandate that Florida keep its clock in daylight-saving time year-round.

The Orlando Democrat said he sponsored the bill (S.B. 734) because he gets frustrated that it gets dark earlier during the winter.

The bill's name: The "Sunshine Protection Act."

Soto represents Florida's 14th Senate district, covering parts of Orange, Osceola and Polk counties.
He admitted he has little hope his bill will get passed this year, but said he wants to start a discussion about daylight saving time.

Soto also said there is a question whether it's legal under federal law for Florida to keep itself on daylight saving time.
Sunshine Protection Act
  • "Daylight Saving Time;
  • Citing this act as the 'Sunshine Protection Act';
  • Requiring that the State of Florida and its political subdivisions observe daylight saving time year-round;
  • Authorizing each district school board to adjust school start times due to the year-round observance of daylight saving time;
  • Authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study adjustments in standard agricultural practices due to the year-round observance of daylight saving time, etc."

I don't think this is something that should be done at the state level. It would be chaotic and problematic to have half of the states in the same time zone with different times. As far as the idea of implementing it at the national level; I'm unsure. I like having extra light at night, but I don't like the idea of it still being dark at 8am in the winter.
 
Arizona has done it for years, hardly life ending. Its pointless in the modern age.

Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time at all. This bill would make Florida observe Daylight Saving Time year round.
 
Time changing is UN_necessary IMO- leave it at one or the other, Just leave it @ the time that works better for the kids, Not being in the dark for those kids that Do still have to walk to the bus or to school',
the kids should be out Main priority, Not Golf'
 
Living in Florida, this is bad news. :( What will the idiots think of next?

I don't really object to Daylight Savings Time, but 6 months out of the year is plenty. 8 or 9 months out of the year is too much.

Those who pay the price are the kids out there standing in the dark and walking in the dark on their way to school. Every year a few are killed because of this stupid policy.
 
Living in Florida, this is bad news. :( What will the idiots think of next?

I don't really object to Daylight Savings Time, but 6 months out of the year is plenty. 8 or 9 months out of the year is too much.

Those who pay the price are the kids out there standing in the dark and walking in the dark on their way to school. Every year a few are killed because of this stupid policy.

I actually saw that one of his reasons for this bill was that he was tired leaving his office in the dark. Way to think about your constituents.
 
good for Florida. the entire nation should do this immediately. it is beyond pointless to switch the ****ing clocks back to standard for just a few months of the year. it annoys me to no end, because it is pointless, it throws me off for weeks, and I hate it.

if an extra hour of sunlight after work is desirable in april, then it's desirable every other month. put permanent DST in place, and leave the ****ing clocks alone.
 
Living in Florida, this is bad news. :( What will the idiots think of next?

I don't really object to Daylight Savings Time, but 6 months out of the year is plenty. 8 or 9 months out of the year is too much.

Those who pay the price are the kids out there standing in the dark and walking in the dark on their way to school. Every year a few are killed because of this stupid policy.

and every year, people of all ages are killed because it takes longer than a day to reset the circadian rhythms of an entire country of commuting drivers. switching the clocks back for a few months is less than pointless. just leave it in place all year.
 
Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time at all. This bill would make Florida observe Daylight Saving Time year round.

I meant that they don't change their clocks. Think it makes sense for Florida as winter/summer darkness shift doesn't impact it as much as elsewhere. During the winters in the NE, the sunsets at 430 pm. Not dusk, not pink skies, set and dark. Rises later too. Florida doesn't gain nearly as much night in the winter.
 
I don't understand how Florida could do such a thing. Florida would lose 2 hours a year if they did it. They would lose an entire calender day every 12 years.

This proposal is one of the dumbest things I have heard this week.
 
I meant that they don't change their clocks. Think it makes sense for Florida as winter/summer darkness shift doesn't impact it as much as elsewhere. During the winters in the NE, the sunsets at 430 pm. Not dusk, not pink skies, set and dark. Rises later too. Florida doesn't gain nearly as much night in the winter.

It wouldn't mesh with the rest of the US and world.. Eventually in Florida 4:30 pm to the rest in the eastern timezone would become 4:30 AM to Florida, then they would start losing calender days.
 
I wish my state would keep DST year round. It would be good for me (the most important person I know) and good for business. If it's too dark, let school start an hour later, not so big of a deal.
 
I wish my state would keep DST year round. It would be good for me (the most important person I know) and good for business. If it's too dark, let school start an hour later, not so big of a deal.

It would make absolutely no sense to do that... We would lose time.

This proposed idea by this politician from Florida is so silly it actually works against it's actual intent.

The sun can't always be in the middle of the sky at noon - the laws that be won't allow it to happen.
 
I don't understand how Florida could do such a thing. Florida would lose 2 hours a year if they did it. They would lose an entire calender day every 12 years.

This proposal is one of the dumbest things I have heard this week.

It wouldn't mesh with the rest of the US and world.. Eventually in Florida 4:30 pm to the rest in the eastern timezone would become 4:30 AM to Florida, then they would start losing calender days.

It would make absolutely no sense to do that... We would lose time.

This proposed idea by this politician from Florida is so silly it actually works against it's actual intent.

The sun can't always be in the middle of the sky at noon - the laws that be won't allow it to happen.


Are you being serious? Excuse John Galt, the man of such industrial prowess the rest of us meager leeches must feed from him a la Ayn Rand, but are you being serious here? I can't imagine such a producer and self made man would be saying something so damn dumb.

So let me break it down for you, the proposed law would simply mean Florida stayed on Eastern Standard Time year round. It would NOT mean that every Day Light Savings that Florida would jump ANOTHER hour forward. They are only going to spring forward ONCE.

I mean are you serious? Seriously? I don't even.... Wow I can't believe this, am I really reading this? Holy **** man.
 
Are you being serious? Excuse John Galt, the man of such industrial prowess the rest of us meager leeches must feed from him a la Ayn Rand, but are you being serious here? I can't imagine such a producer and self made man would be saying something so damn dumb.

So let me break it down for you, the proposed law would simply mean Florida stayed on Eastern Standard Time year round. It would NOT mean that every Day Light Savings that Florida would jump ANOTHER hour forward. They are only going to spring forward ONCE.

I mean are you serious? Seriously? I don't even.... Wow I can't believe this, am I really reading this? Holy **** man.

It doesn't work that way...

What Florida (or this idiot politician) wants is a definite time... He wants the sun to be in the same position of the sky every time on the same day. Such an idea is impossible.
 
It doesn't work that way...

What Florida (or this idiot politician) wants is a definite time... He wants the sun to be in the same position of the sky every time on the same day. Such an idea is impossible.

No he wants to move Florida permanently an hour ahead in March. That won't cause the sun to be in the same spot of the sky every time of every day and no one is saying it will. And it certainly won't in 12 years mean if I drive from Alabama to Florida that i'll go from 430PM to 0430AM and the sun will still be out. God damn I can't believe you wrote that.
 
I don't understand how Florida could do such a thing. Florida would lose 2 hours a year if they did it. They would lose an entire calender day every 12 years.

This proposal is one of the dumbest things I have heard this week.

That's...not how this works.
 
It doesn't work that way...

What Florida (or this idiot politician) wants is a definite time... He wants the sun to be in the same position of the sky every time on the same day. Such an idea is impossible.


You are misinterpreting.
 
Florida could keep daylight saving time all year under 'Sunshine Protection Act'


I don't think this is something that should be done at the state level. It would be chaotic and problematic to have half of the states in the same time zone with different times. As far as the idea of implementing it at the national level; I'm unsure. I like having extra light at night, but I don't like the idea of it still being dark at 8am in the winter.

I sure wish Georgia would do the same. I don't care which time they choose, just keep one all year around. Indiana had some counties that didn't change their time, but most did. Arizona and hawaii do not change times either.
 
No he wants to move Florida permanently an hour ahead in March. That won't cause the sun to be in the same spot of the sky every time of every day and no one is saying it will. And it certainly won't in 12 years mean if I drive from Alabama to Florida that i'll go from 430PM to 0430AM and the sun will still be out. God damn I can't believe you wrote that.

Are you seriously trying to assert this proposed idea will not change time in Florida??

If that's the case then what the hell is the purpose of this proposed legislation??

You don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Florida would lose 2 hours every year (against time everywhere else but Florida)... In other words when it's 2pm in Atlanta it be noon in Florida, then every year it would just get progressively more off..

If you don't understand this then fine...
 
I don't care if we have DLS all year or standard all year, but just leave it at one or the other
 
Are you seriously trying to assert this proposed idea will not change time in Florida??

If that's the case then what the hell is the purpose of this proposed legislation??

You don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Florida would lose 2 hours every year (against time everywhere else but Florida)... In other words when it's 2pm in Atlanta it be noon in Florida, then every year it would just get progressively more off..

If you don't understand this then fine...

Florida wouldn't lose anything or any state for that matter. Right now we just changed to DST, it is exactly 1500 hrs for every state in the Eastern time Zone. Come fall, all other states would set their clocks back an hour to standard time, florida would not. So it would be 1400 hrs now for all the Eastern time zone states except florida which would stay at 1500hrs. Come spring time, spring forward and move your clocks forward an hour, the rest of the eastern time zone would set their clocks up an hous and now both Florida and the rest are back at 1500hrs. There is no losing two hours every years. The rest of the eastern time zone would fall back one hour in the fall putting them one hour behind florida. In the spring they would spring forward once again to come on the same time that Florida kept all year around.
 
That's...not how this works.

I propose a simple experiment - buy a clock set the time and let it run for 6 years. 2am 6 years later will be 2pm on your clock.

The notion one can set the sun rise every day to a Floridian at 6am is not only goofy it's ignorant and that is exactly what is being proposed here.
 
Florida wouldn't lose anything or any state for that matter. Right now we just changed to DST, it is exactly 1500 hrs for every state in the Eastern time Zone. Come fall, all other states would set their clocks back an hour to standard time, florida would not. So it would be 1400 hrs now for all the Eastern time zone states except florida which would stay at 1500hrs. Come spring time, spring forward and move your clocks forward an hour, the rest of the eastern time zone would set their clocks up an hous and now both Florida and the rest are back at 1500hrs. There is no losing two hours every years. The rest of the eastern time zone would fall back one hour in the fall putting them one hour behind florida. In the spring they would spring forward once again to come on the same time that Florida kept all year around.

So Florida is proposing they be the center of the solar system and time? Because that is the only possible way such an idea could work.. It would make Florida the center of time.
 
So Florida is proposing they be the center of the solar system and time? Because that is the only possible way such an idea could work.. It would make Florida the center of time.

you're wrong. It works for Arizona and Hawaii and certain counties in Indiana if Indiana hadn't changed their laws. It just mean for a half a year, Florida and the rest of the states in the Eastern time zone there would be exactly one hour time difference. For the remaining half of the year the time would be the same. It is no big thing. I would love to see Georgia stay on DST all year around. Perhaps if this becomes law in Florida, Georgia will follow. In fact I am about to write a letter to my state legislature suggesting Georgia stay on the same time all year around. As it is Florida to the south is on the same time, but Alabama to the west is on Central time. So there is an hours difference with Alabama anyway.
 
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