I support this, but I predict that if it becomes law it will be quickly reversed. Kids will be walking to school in darkness and that will cause an avalanche of stories about how unsafe this all is. Happened before in the seventies, in 1973-1974 when I was a junior in high school, and I think it will happen again.
This is so dumb… if daylight standard time becomes “standard” … then standard time will be supplanted by a new “standard”…
-why not just wake up an hour earlier?!
If they wanted to make something permanent, it should have been the standard time, not the savings time. I, too, recall the attempt in the 1970s, and I recall the reports on upticks in accidents and other problems impacting the kids who spent the first hours at school in the dark. But I almost knew if they ended changing the clocks, they would do it this way.
Those of us of a certain vintage recall the winter of 1973-74. Year round DST was one of the Nixon era measures to conserve petroleum. Another was the 55 mph speed limit. Another was federal subsidies for mass transit. Another was CAFE standards for vehicles. (New York added a regulation that you could only purchase gasoline every other day, which day depending on the last digit of your license plate). And, yes, we were all going to school in the dark of night. There was a run on reflector tape for winter coats. A buddy of mine had these armbands you could slip on.
Kids have never ben in the dark before?