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I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:36 am
by dales
We've lived with this asinine DST for to dammed long!
A bill to scrap daylight saving time has just made its way through another Senate committee, which means California may be closer to standard time year round.
In an interview with the Sacramento Bee, Assemblymember Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) - who authored the bill - said, "Daylight saving time is an institution that has been in place largely without a question for more than half a century." Chu continued, "I think we owe it to the general public to be given the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not daylight saving time ought to be continued."
Chu presented Assembly Bill 385 to the State Senate Appropriations Committee on August 11, 2016. The bill was initially introduced in 2015 and written to put an end to daylight savings time as we know it.
Chu also cited statistics in the bill that link daylight savings time to a higher heart attack rate, traffic accidents and fatalities and energy waste.
After several amendments last year, the bill made its way to the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee in June and eventually to the State Senate Appropriation Committee this past week.
After clearing the Senate committee, the bill is now headed to the Senate floor. If the bill passes and receives Gov. Jerry Brown's approval, California voters will see the bill on the ballot no later than 2018.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:49 am
by Jarlaxle
That would be nice...might get most of the damn west-coast games started early enough I don't fall asleep before the final out.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:58 am
by Long Run
Check out Jarl having a positive take on this. If i was still a Golden State voter i would be a big yes on this too.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:09 am
by Lord Jim
If i was still a Golden State voter i would be a big yes on this too.
Well I am, and I give this a big
Absolutely
NOT
I
love daylight savings time, I wish we had it all year 'round...
Leave it to the chuckle heads in Sacramento to come up with this horrible idea...
Fortunately to be put on the ballot it requires a 2/3 vote of both houses of the legislature, so hopefully this will die on the floor...
ETA:
We've lived with this asinine DST for to dammed long!
You just don't like DST because you're a curmudgeonly old fuddy duddy...
You still have a rotary phone fer crissakes...
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:40 pm
by Burning Petard
I think for most people it is the change that is most bothersome. Go to 'daylite savings' year round.
snailgate
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:32 pm
by Econoline
I've got a box full of rotary phones somewhere out in the garage, and I *
LOVE* DST!
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:31 pm
by dales
You just don't like DST because you're a curmudgeonly old fuddy duddy...
You still have a rotary phone fer crissakes...
I used to, not anymore.
I'll have you know that I ditched my old rotary phone and now have one you have to crank to get an operator.
Ain't technology grand?
And I have to disagree with you on scrapping DST, the majority of Californians and I would vote for this in a heartbeat.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 5:22 pm
by Bicycle Bill
Econoline wrote:I've got a box full of rotary phones somewhere out in the garage, and I *
LOVE* DST!
If they're "somewhere out in the garage" that means you're not using them and you are at least caught up to the 1970s.
-"BB"-
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 5:27 pm
by rubato
Burning Petard wrote:I think for most people it is the change that is most bothersome. Go to 'daylite savings' year round.
snailgate
DST year round!
I'd vote for that.
yrs,
rubato
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:15 pm
by dales
Make it one or the other, changing the clocks back and forth is STUPID!
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:16 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
... but if we must change 'em, let's put the clocks forward at 2pm on a Friday. And then put them one hour back at 8 pm on a Saturday
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:29 pm
by MGMcAnick
I've long thought we should put DST on and leave it there. When it ends in October, it's just like someone in Washington flipped a switch. Customers have no time to come in after work in the daylight, so they don't come in at all.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 12:20 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
You still have a rotary phone fer crissakes..
That would be me.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 12:39 pm
by Lord Jim
oldr_n_wsr wrote:You still have a rotary phone fer crissakes..
That would be me.
You know oldr, even though it's only Monday I feel very confident in saying that is likely to be the
least surprising thing I learn all week...
I assume you built it yourself...
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:34 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Nah, (well the prototype I did) I had the plant in Mexico build it. (no tpp for me, nafta all the way)
However, I did design it.
On a somewhat serious note (I think I mentioned this before), when I was working at Motorola, I was involved in the design of a cell-phone "like" device (for fireman/plolice/emergency depts, etc) and I did not own a cell phone at the time.
I do have one now, a tracphone. I got 180 minutes 3 months ago and have about 120 minutes left. I have to buy more as my "time limit" is approaching. You get three more months each time you buy minutes. I'll buy the minimum amount of minutes this time around
and maybe use the phone more 
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:12 pm
by dales
I do have one now, a tracphone. I got 180 minutes 3 months ago and have about 120 minutes left. I have to buy more as my "time limit" is approaching. You get three more months each time you buy minutes.
That's what I use.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:05 pm
by Scooter
We've had this discussion before - not changing time is fine in lower latitudes, but in higher ones, unless you want the sun coming up at 4AM in the summer or 9AM in the winter, you need to change the time in the fall and spring.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:19 pm
by Big RR
I agree Scooter.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 1:19 am
by dales
If the bill passes in Sacramento, California.................it stands to reason that only those living in California would have to worry about it.
Others, not so much.
Re: I REALLY WANT THIS BILL TO PASS IN SACTO!
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 1:29 am
by Scooter
It also became a general discussion on DST to which several non-Californians contributed their opinions. Deal.