Sunshine Protection Act(DST Year Round in FL)
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i want more day light hours after work for kids to be able to play outside. i hate getting home and it feels like its already time to go to sleep. meanwhile my kids have tons of energy and keeping them inside is a pita.
This got more opposition than I expected over on the National Board. To me it feels like a no brainer for Florida residents. The best months to be outside for an extended period of time in Florida is the opposite of most of the nation and those are the months that get the least daylight(November-March).
Scott signed it a few days ago, the only hurdle left is Congress. Everything at the State level is done.
While nice to have more sunlight in winter, there are a lot of possible issues here too.
NFL games will now be 2 pm and 5 pm during these months
Sunrise will be like 8:30 in December
UCF could possibly have weeknight kicks at 9 pm if it's an 8 pm primetime game '
Primetime TV programs won't start until 9 pm
Possible travel complications with FL having its own time zone
Connecting to Atlanta may be nice since you'd land at same time you took off. Coming back from there will suck though. I often catch the late 11:30 pm flights to Tampa and that would now mean that I'll get to my door around 2 am.
NFL games will now be 2 pm and 5 pm during these months
Sunrise will be like 8:30 in December
UCF could possibly have weeknight kicks at 9 pm if it's an 8 pm primetime game '
Primetime TV programs won't start until 9 pm
Possible travel complications with FL having its own time zone
Connecting to Atlanta may be nice since you'd land at same time you took off. Coming back from there will suck though. I often catch the late 11:30 pm flights to Tampa and that would now mean that I'll get to my door around 2 am.
Meh, none of that is really that big of a deal and it will only be for four months of the year.
NFL games starting later is better IMO. Games at 1 is too early anyways.
Sunrise is not that big of a deal.
One or two UCF games a year maybe.
Who watches TV live anymore?
Travel isn't that big of a deal, most of the time people are changing time zones anyways.
Your beloved Packer games will air starting at 9:30 on Sunday or Monday nights. Have fun staying up til 1:30 for that finish!
I do like the later sports start times though . Easier to get some things done before watching on tv . As far as 9 o clock Ucf games I’ll be fine as long as they aren’t on cbs sports
Chances this passes Congress though? Interesting read on adverse effects of the DST transition: LINK
UCF Football games are the only sporting event that I consistently watch from start to finish anymore so the game times for other sports are not really a big deal to me. I see the inconvenience for those that travel out of State a lot for work but it would put Florida 1 hour closer to Western Europe during those Winter Months.
Arizona and Hawaii don't change clocks. The precedent is there. States in the south don't have the huge time swings in sunrises like northern states eitger so there is little reason for us to follow along. NY has a three hour swing in sunrises without changing clocks, FL has an hour and a half. .
Most of that doesn't apply here.
It's actually a change to Atlantic Standard Time (AST) year-round. We've been discussion this on and off in the Zoneinfo project. Florida (non-panhandle) would join AST, and data going forward would match America/Port_of_Spain Zoneinfo record (and the panhandle would match America/Panama record going forward), although Florida would get it's own Zoneinfo file (and another for the panhandle), for pre-change translation, probably America/Miami given Zoneinfo nomenclature (and possibly American/Pensacola for the panhandle).
PR and US VI are already on AST year-round -- PR has been since '45 (not sure about US VI). This would put Florida, sans the Panhandle, on AST as well. Various states in New England are looking at going to AST as well, to match eastern portions of Canada. Frankly, this should have been done years ago IMPO.
Nope. Not true.
The Congressional law allows states to skip DST -- i.e., skip moving to EDT (-0400), CDT (-0500), MDT (-0600) or PDT (-0700) -- for their respective, standard times -- i.e., EST (-0500), CST (-0600), MST (-0700) or PST (-0800) -- respectively. They can stay on the latter.
This is not a DST change. This is an entire timezone change to AST (-0400) year round. That requires Congressional approval and is not allowed by the current law.
Florida would also be the first continental US state to move to AST (-0400) as well. But NE and MA (at least the eastern part) will likely follow, and the other, select portions of of New England (at least RI and NH) will probably follow suit as well. CT, VT and western portions of MA might be a stretch though.
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with the clocks springing forward in less than a week what happened with this on a federal level? They never put it up for a vote?
They did just as good a job st this as they have passing budgets the last few presidents
