Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡"New Oregon bill aims to make standard time permanent" by @KGWNews NBC Portland - Unlike 2019 permanent DST effort, states may opt for permanent standard time without act of Congress. Bill not conditional on CA & WA joining. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/oregon-bill-aims-to-make-standard-time-permanent/283-d0c56e25-1d55-4152-bad7-010bdaf87013 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
"Oregon Senate committee votes overwhelmingly to end Daylight Saving Time" by @KATUNews ABC Portland - #SB1548 approved by committee. It would need approval by Oregon House & Senate and Governor's signature to become law. https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-senate-committee-votes-overwhelmingly-to-end-daylight-saving-time #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
2019 permanent DST effort in CA/OR/WA had problems. 1st: DST unequally distributes light toward late-day activities. Standard time centers on solar noon. 2nd: it was conditional on all 3 states passing it, and CA got stuck on DST vs standard debate. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
I see a potential solvable problem in Oregon #SB1548 permanent standard time bill. It only applies to Pacific Time portion of OR. Part of eastern OR near Boise ID is Mtn Time. Idaho bill H0584 also proposes #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST statewide.🤔 https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/SB1548 #PNW
#SB1548 permanent Standard Time bill update: 3rd reading failed 14-16 in Oregon Senate. Motion to Reconsider 26-3 referred it to the Rules Committee. So someone wants to change something. (Maybe statewide vs Pacific Time area due to similar Idaho bill H0584.) #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
"Oregon senators evenly split on the question of #PermanentStandardTime" by The Oregonian @OregonLive (mirror bot) / @lizzzyacker - Bill sent back to committee. All the western states are afraid to be first to make the change. https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2024/02/oregon-senators-evenly-split-on-the-question-of-permanent-standard-time.html #SB1548 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
Oregon #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill amendment in committee would make it conditional: not taking effect until Washington & California enact similar laws, expiring if not done in 10 years. No mention of Idaho, for SE Oregon's Mtn Time area. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
Another amendment to Oregon #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill makes it conditional upon Washington OR California (changed requirement of both to any of them) adopting permanent standard time to bring it into effect. CA & OR appear on course to #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST. #PNW
I submitted a statement to the Oregon State Senate in favor of #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/113966 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
"Why are Oregon lawmakers pushing for #PermanentStandardTime instead of permanent DST?" by @KGWNews NBC Portland - States can't make DST permanent without act of Congress. Also understanding Standard Time is more natural. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/oregon-bill-permanent-standard-time-daylight-saving-clock-change/283-f4bcb96a-3a74-4691-9a23-01a6b5e0ddfb #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
"Sleep experts call for end of seasonal time changes ahead of ‘springing forward’" by American Academy of Sleep Medicine @AASMorg - AASM press release advises #PermanentStandardTime / #DitchDST as the healthier and safer option to #DitchTheSwitch. https://aasm.org/sleep-experts-call-for-end-of-seasonal-time-changes-ahead-of-springing-forward/
"Oregon plan to ditch daylight saving time moves forward with key changes" by @OregonLive (mirror bot) - #SB1548 amended to set #PermanentStandardTime in Oregon only if Washington & California both do too. So far bill is in state Senate. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/02/oregon-bill-to-ditch-daylight-savings-time-moves-forward-with-key-changes.html #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
#SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill is in Oregon State Senate. If it passes, it would still need House & Governor to approve. It would not go into effect until CA & WA pass similar laws. Time to knock on or knock down doors in Olympia & Sacramento. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
Oregon State Senate Rules Committee sends amended #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill to floor with recommendation to pass. Readings scheduled Thu Feb 29 & Fri Mar 1, floor vote Fri Mar 1. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/SB1548?pubDate=2024-02-28-15-26 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW (cc @SaveStandard )
Oregon State Senate postponed votes on several bills including #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime to Monday March 4. If it passes the Senate, next week is all that's left in Oregon's 2024 legislative session for House to pass it too. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
#SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill passed the Oregon State Senate. It still needs House approval and the Governor's signature. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
"On a split vote, Oregon Senate passes a switch to standard time – if other West Coast states do" by Oregon Capital Chronicle @ORCapChronicle - #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill passed by Oregon Senate 16-14 https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/03/04/on-a-split-vote-oregon-senate-passes-a-switch-to-standard-time-if-other-west-coast-states-do/ #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW
"Oregon’s bid to end daylight saving time is dead for this year" by The Oregonian @OregonLive - After passing in Oregon Senate, Speaker of the House killed #SB1548 #PermanentStandardTime bill. Ran out of time with 4 days left in 2024 session. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/03/oregons-bid-to-end-daylight-saving-time-is-dead-for-this-year.html #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
Not yet ready for release, but this is a good time to ask who might be interested in collaborating in my #OpenSource #software project for code & tzfiles of longitude-based natural/solar time zones, so devices can opt out of DST. https://github.com/ikluft/LongitudeTZ #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
GitHub - ikluft/LongitudeTZ: Natural time zones based on longitude, a proposal for addition to the TZ Database. This includes longitude-based time zone definitions, data files and lookups, allowing devices to opt-out of daylight saving time and still interoperate with those who follow it
Natural time zones based on longitude, a proposal for addition to the TZ Database. This includes longitude-based time zone definitions, data files and lookups, allowing devices to opt-out of daylig...
#DaylightSavingTime has begun in the USA🇺🇸. Countries that use #DST vary start & end dates because it's entirely a product of legislation. During #DST average local solar noon, the actual mid-day point, is around 1pm depending how far east or west you are from the center of your time zone. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
Idaho's #PermanentStandardTime bill #H0584 is scheduled for a vote in the House on Monday. It's statewide, covering Pacific & Mountain Time parts of state. Requires 2+ other western states from MT, UT, WY, OR, WA, CA to join in. https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0584/ #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
"People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why." by @UndarkMag / @TeresaRCarr - Standard Time is natural time. It puts clock noon at average solar noon, balancing available daylight in morning & evening. https://undark.org/2024/03/11/time-zones-daylight-saving/ #PermanentStandardTime #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
California #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill scheduled for Tue Apr 2 hearing in state senate. It proposes unilateral change, no conditions on other states. Watch closely: CA is ⅛ of US population - if passed, western states except Arizona will certainly follow. (AZ is already permanent std time.) #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
After a delay in the scheduled hearing, California state senate committee approved 13-0 #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill with recommendation to pass it.
Next steps would need votes by state senate & assembly and governor's signature. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
Next steps would need votes by state senate & assembly and governor's signature. #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
All the western states are watching California debate on #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill. CA is only state big enough not to be afraid to go first. Senate committee kept it under consideration of bills vs available budget. https://universeodon.com/@SaveStandard/112396088930312201 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
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California State Senate committee voted #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill out of the "suspense file", a budget & political filter, keeping this one alive. Now we'll see if it goes next to another committee, or entire senate. https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/sites/sapro.senate.ca.gov/files/Hearing_Results%205-16-24%20Suspense.pdf #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
California State Senate advanced #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill to an upcoming floor vote. It needs a 2/3 vote to pass because an amendment added a budgetary cost, requiring a report be written. 2/3 may be steep uphill. 🙁 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1413 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
Unfortunately, California State Senate amended #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill to only a report, and removed actual repeal of DST. Unless CA Assembly unexpectedly revives AB1776, this ends any hope for #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST in the western states that could begin 2025. ☹️
California State Senate passed #SB1413 #PermanentStandardTime bill after it was amended down to a study due 2027, not repeal of DST. Slightly better than nothing. In the western states this year, Oregon got the farthest with Senate passing #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST bill #SB1548.
I watched as #Oregon SB566 #PermanentStandardTime bill apparently died. I didn't realize it was replaced by #SB1038 until that passed the Senate today. On to the House.
The new bill is weird. It'll go along with permanent Standard or Daylight time as long as both CA & WA adopt same in 10 years. Permanent DST would require an act of Congress first, since states aren't allowed to choose it. Excludes Mountain Time portion of Oregon in Malheur County. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB1038 #DitchTheSwitch #PNW
"Oregon Senate passes bill for permanent standard time... or possibly permanent daylight saving time" by KGW News (NBC Portland) - After #SB1038 passage in the #Oregon Senate, it will be up for a vote in the House. If passed by House and signed by governor, Oregon would go along if both CA & WA #DitchTheSwitch too within 10 years. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/oregon-senate-passes-bill-end-daylight-saving-time-switch/283-1e33b479-450f-4381-9dec-700ac409d308 #PNW
Unfortunately, the #PermanentStandardTime bill in the #Oregon legislature #SB1038 is dead for 2025. It passed the state senate Mar 25 but never made it out of committee in the House. Friday was the deadline for the 2025 session for bills to be acted on by a second chamber. This probably needs a ballot initiative to get done. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB1038 #PNW
The status of #PermanentStandardTime legislation in western states' 2025 sessions...
Arizona & Hawaii: Permanent Standard Time is law since late 1960s
Oregon: SB-1038 passed Senate, died in House
Nevada: AB81 passed Assembly, died in Senate
California: SB-51 approved by a Senate committee, stalled in another, deadline 2026
Alaska: complicated
bills died in originating chamber in WA UT ID MT
no 2025 bills in NM CO WY
Current list of legislation by @SaveStandard is at https://savestandardtime.com/current/
It's time for the twice-annual groaning about the time change with #DaylightSavingTime ending for the year in the US & Canada Sunday morning, November 2. A way we can resist/rebel is to develop software so our own computers + devices can opt-out of DST, and still interact with those required to use it. See my LongitudeTZ project on GitHub. Lots to do but it won't get anywhere without supporters. https://github.com/ikluft/LongitudeTZ #OpenSource #software #tech #PermanentStandardTime #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST
GitHub - ikluft/LongitudeTZ: Natural time zones based on longitude, a proposal for addition to the TZ Database. This includes longitude-based time zone definitions, data files and lookups, allowing devices to opt-out of daylight saving time and still interoperate with those who follow it
Natural time zones based on longitude, a proposal for addition to the TZ Database. This includes longitude-based time zone definitions, data files and lookups, allowing devices to opt-out of daylig...
baibold@baibold @SaveStandard Yeah, there's obviously consensus to "ditch the switch".
Permanent Standard Time can be chosen by states, and agrees with the natural setting of clock noon to solar noon. ST balancing daylight between AM & PM is advocated by sleep-specialist doctors.
Daylight Saving Time only exists by legislation. After a failed permanent DST experiment in the US in 1974-5, is not legal for states to choose permanent DST. It would require an act of Congress to repeal that law.
There should probably be a realignment of time zones. DST definitely 'feels' better on the east coast IMO.
@baibold @SaveStandard That "feel" is subjective to preferences for morning or evening sunlight, which varies but people can schedule around it. The average at solar noon = clock noon covers the population overall.
US Eastern Time's center line by longitude is 75° West. Each 1-hour time zone is 360/24=15° wide. EST is 5 hours west of UTC. So 15*5=75° for the center. That puts NYC-Philly-Baltimore within 1° of EST's center where solar noon and clock noon sync best. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75th_meridian_west
KevinOnEarth@KO6YQ @SaveStandard
It's now a multi-connected world. Everyone everywhere should just go UTC. 🤷
Right now, it's 01:35 UTC... For EVERYone!
It's now a multi-connected world. Everyone everywhere should just go UTC. 🤷
Right now, it's 01:35 UTC... For EVERYone!
Penguin@KO6YQ @SaveStandard @stshank Us late risers want to save daylight savings time, love the extra afternoon hour. I’ll take permanent daylight savings 🙂
Stephen Shankland@PenguinToot @KO6YQ @SaveStandard Boo! You should embrace some wholesome Protestant propaganda about the virtues of getting an early start
@stshank @KO6YQ @SaveStandard Ha, I’ve tried. I can wake up early when on vacation so I don’t miss any tourist sights but that’s about it. Especially on vacation I love the extra hour of daylight for photos. Oh well, things will happen as they happen, we’ll see 🙂
Mike Garrahan@PenguinToot
DST was a morning person's scheme to make us stop "wasting" summer mornings. Standard time lets us be ourselves.
DST was a morning person's scheme to make us stop "wasting" summer mornings. Standard time lets us be ourselves.
@mgarraha Ha, I waste summer mornings all the time, so I need the extra afternoon hour for activities & travel. But be it as it may, whatever hours the world decides upon I can learn to live with 🙂
@KO6YQ
Utah HB 120 passed the House but died in the Senate.
Alaska Senate Rules committee held SB 102 but let a perma-DST bill advance.
Utah HB 120 passed the House but died in the Senate.
Alaska Senate Rules committee held SB 102 but let a perma-DST bill advance.
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