Lawmakers approve year-round Daylight Saving Time. But it's not a done deal yet.

[TexasTowelie]

After hours of divisive debate over guns, schools and freedom, the Florida Senate spent less than a minute Tuesday and voted on something they all could agree on: daylight.

The Senate voted 33-2 to send a bill to Gov. Rick Scott to ask the U.S. Congress to decide whether Florida should be a state that enjoys Daylight Savings Time year-round. It was passed by the House on Feb. 14, 103-11.

Under the plan, HB 1013, called the "Sunshine Protection Act," the state would ask Congress to pass a law to let the Sunshine State move from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time (when you set your clocks ahead one hour) year-round. Daylight Savings Time runs from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November and is set to start this Sunday, March 11, and end Nov. 4.

If approved, Florida would join two other states that have exempted themselves from the 1966 law that set a uniform time for all time zones across the country. Hawaii and most of Arizona are on standard time year-round.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/03/06/lawmakers-approve-year-round-daylight-savings-time-but-its-not-a-done-deal-yet/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Without getting into a debate about the rationality or reasonableness of this,

the big problem is going to be out of step.

I do get heartily sick of the yearly debate about Daylight Saving Time. If I were dictator of North America, I'd keep DST but it would start no earlier than mid-April and end at the end of September. The current system starts too early and ends too late. The rationale for extending it to the first Sunday in November had to do with Halloween and little kids trick-or-treating. I'm 69 years old, and trust me, even if you set the clocks forward three hours for Halloween, there will still be kids out after dark. The kids out after dark are not only no big deal but giant fun. I happen to live where I get LOTS of trick-or-treaters and still haven't quite mastered how much candy I need to buy.

Oh, and as I child, more than 60 years ago, when DST ended well before Halloween, the joy of that night was being out late, after dark. And all the candy.

[WestMichRad]

2. "Year-round DST" is ridiculous!

If I understand this right, what they want is to be in the Atlantic time zone. So call it that, you political idiots!

Calling it "year-round DST" is like renaming zero "one less than one". Ya know, like these political zeroes might be offended when we point out that they are Zeroes.