Florida’s Permanent Daylight Saving Time is Effed Again
For as long as I can remember, people have been talking about Daylight Saving Time. Some think it’s awesome and others think it’s a crappy idea. We’ve all heard the story.
It was put into place initially for farmers to have more time in their fields during the winter months, with their accompanying shorter days. For the last few years, the buzz seemed to be getting louder.
Stories swirled and bills were introduced in the state legislature. The effort came to a head with the Sunshine Protection Act back in 2018.
Just a heads up! Daylight Saving Time comes to an end this weekend. We return to Central Standard Time at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 7th.
— Jillian Grace ⚡️ (@wx_jillian) November 4, 2021
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Flash forward to 2021. This year’s end date for Daylight Saving Time is this Sunday, meaning we will “fall back” an hour, giving us all an extra hour of sleep.
Yep, you heard that right. We are continuing the process for yet another year.
Why? I know this is gonna be hard to believe, but government inaction has rammed it up our backsides yet again. Once the Sunshine Protection Act was passed at the state level in 2018, the next step was for the feds to get it ratified.
Yeeeaaahhhh, about that. They never did squat.
According to WFLA, due to their inability to get it ratified, the current system stays in place indefinitely. That means it will not change until the federal government gets off their butts to make it happen.
Until they do, we will remain in our current situation, moving clocks forward and back twice a year. Each year, without fail, the bill is proposed by Florida, only to have it shot down when it goes up the food chain.
Until the issue is addressed, nothing will change. Daylight Saving Time will end for the year this Sunday morning at 2 a.m.
[SOURCE: WFLA.com]
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