{"id":53399,"date":"2022-11-07T01:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53399"},"modified":"2022-11-07T02:01:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:01:23","slug":"time-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53399","title":{"rendered":"Standard or Daylight?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now that many millions of Americans have been told to “fall back” to Standard Time, I want to revisit an issue that comes up about, oh, twice a year … or about the time we go to Daylight Saving Time or back to Standard Time.<\/p>\n

At issue is whether we ought to keep switching between DST and Standard Time. For me, I don’t care. It never has bothered me to change the clocks in my house twice annually. I don’t feel sleep deprived after losing the hour in the spring when we, um, “spring forward.” Nor does falling back in the autumn give me any grief.<\/p>\n

However, if we were to cease the back-and-forth, my preference would be to stick with a permanent Daylight Saving Time, I like the longer daylight hours in the evening.<\/p>\n

The 2019 Texas Legislature was set to ask Texas residents what we preferred: permanent DST, permanent Standard Time, or keep changing back and forth.\u00a0 The Legislature, though, couldn’t prepare a statewide resolution in time and the measure died a quiet death that hardly anyone even noticed.<\/p>\n

Now we hear about Congress possibly enacting a federal law.\u00a0 Same thing, folks. If we’re going to keep a permanent time on the books, I would ask our federal lawmakers to stick with a permanent Daylight Saving Time.<\/p>\n

Absent that, well, then just allow us to change our clocks in the spring and again in the fall.<\/p>\n

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