Welcome to the first full spring day.
Finally the hours of the day exceed the hours of darkness.
The snowfall of winter has largely melted.
Snow in the air after the beginning of spring is common.
Also measurable snow can still fall.
Whatever white stuff will come to us in the next few weeks, the main load of winter has passed.
The snowmobile season is over.
If something stays over the ski season, it will be short.
Crocuses begin to look out of the ground.
Daffodils and tulips are gone for a while, but it won't be too long.
The tasks of spring cleaning are – or shortly – in hand.
Warm weather outdoor sports start to start.
Soon it will be time to extinguish docks and put boats into the region's waters.
With spring, the return of daylight savings comes.
Daylight savings layer one hour daylight from the beginning of the day to the end of the day.
With this ritual, the semi -annual conversation comes from some who oppose the watches twice a year by one hour.
Consider the following: How do you feel when you change the clocks by an hour when you travel to a neighboring time zone, such as: This is west of Michigan, the majority of Indiana, Ostkentucky, Ost -Ttennessee, Georgia and the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle.
Is that a big deal? If so, why? If not why, twice a year by an hour twice a hour?
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Let us pick up where we stopped this week three years ago.
In 2022, the US Senate-Fahn was looking for a law on a serious debate that the United States was permanently sent to the US House of Representatives a day with the daylight savings period from 2023.
The bill died in the house.
The United States once tried to switch to the permanent daylight savings period.
That was in 1974 and it didn't take long. It soon became apparent that at the end of the day it was better to have an additional hour of daylight at the beginning. For example, many not everyone, but many children who went to school during the standard time during the standard time, suddenly went to school during the daylight savings.
In Chautauqua County, for example, it will be easy in the winter solstice shortly after 7 a.m. That is eastern daylight shortly after 8 a.m. At the other end of the day it gets dark shortly before 5 p.m. East standard. That is eastern daylight shortly before 6 p.m.
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According to reports, there is now the opposite proposal: leave the whole country permanently in the standard time. In other words: Make the daylight savings all over the country.
That also applies.
During today's month, Dawn would be an hour earlier and would come by an hour in which many people do not need daylight.
The additional hour of the day in the evening would have disappeared.
In Chautauqua County, the June drop in darkness came in the 8:00 hour and not in the 9:00 hour.
And on October 31, children who celebrated Halloween would lose the additional daylight lesson in the early evening.
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If individual states want to go their own way if they only have a standard time or only the daylight saving time, you can do so freely. Fine. Please continue. Hawaii and the majority of Arizona remain the standard time all year round. Most of Indiana used to do it.
Nevertheless, no states should impose such preferences for the rest of us.
In short, it's about federalism: The federal government should keep it out of the decision whether they should change the clocks twice a year.
In the meantime, those who oppose the semi -annual change of watches would be good to save us the invited title of the “Sunshine Protection Act”. Change or does not change every six months does not protect sunshine. Instead, it determines when – Sunshine appears.
The congress should reject the failed “sunshine protection law”.
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Randy Elf competes twice a year in favor of the change of watches.
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