DOGE: "No DST for you!"

[George K]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-time-changes-doge/index.html

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are suggesting the country stop its biannual ritual of falling back and springing forward – advocating a permanent end to time changes in a move that has garnered broad support in the past.

In a series of posts on X last week, both entrepreneurs called for the US to stop changing its clocks twice a year, with Musk declaring Americans want their country to “abolish the annoying time changes!” and Ramaswamy describing the century-old practice as “inefficient & easy to change.”

It’s unclear how seriously the two men are taking this push and whether they intend to make stopping time changes a priority for their newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, which President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with overhauling how the government operates and identifying and making recommendations to eliminate processes or programs deemed redundant.

While other objectives floated by Musk and Ramaswamy for their department to tackle have been criticized as unwieldy or not possible, the semi-annual clock change is a tradition that has lost its appeal to many voters, polls have shown.

[Mik]

Can we please address something more substantial?

[Jolly]

Meanwhile, I'm fer it....

[George K]

@Mik said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

Can we please address something more substantial?

I'm hopeful that will come to pass.

However, I have to wonder what the cost to the gummint is by enabling this semi-annual shift. Does it really cost money?

[LuFins Dad]

Pure populism, and piss poor populism at that.

Losing an hour of sleep sucks in the spring, but gaining the hour in the fall is awesome. At the same time, sending kids to the bus stop in the dark is far worse than dealing with the inconvenience of having your sleep cycle slightly affected for a week.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

Pure populism, and piss poor populism at that.

Would you feel the same if DST were made permanent?

[Horace]

Classic DOGE.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

@LuFins-Dad said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

Pure populism, and piss poor populism at that.

Would you feel the same if DST were made permanent?

Yep.

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

sending kids to the bus stop in the dark is far worse than dealing with the inconvenience

Yes, of course.

Start the bus an hour later.

Just a thought.

[George K]

@Copper said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

Start the bus an hour later.

Matt Walker would approve.

[Horace]

More like Matt Busser.

[jon-nyc]

Who’s going to tell them that they haven’t been appointed sovereign?

[89th]

@George-K said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

@Copper said in DOGE: "No DST for you!":

Start the bus an hour later.

Matt Walker would approve.

If he has a daughter and doesn't name her Sky, it will be very hard for me to sleep at night get over that.