@NWS_MountHolly
8:30pm is just 3½ hours before midnight; it’s too late for sunset, it makes it too hard to fall asleep.
Let those who like DST set their own alarms an hour early. Let the rest of us sleep past sunrise year-round.
@GunjanJS
@WSJ
@ChipCutter
Conventional work arrangements—commuting, planning meals and sleep and exercise around the workplace, dress codes, etc—these are messy. Working from home is a relief (and it’s more productive).
@SenWhitehouse
Perma-DST is a deadly failure. Please amend to permanent Standard Time, Mr Senator, as advised by the PTA, Safety Council, Sleep Academy, and many more.
#StandardTime
Save Standard Time is receiving multiple notifications per second this evening! 🤯 And
@SaveStandard
just surpassed 2,000 followers on Twitter! 🥳
#SaveStandardTime
Permanent Daylight Saving Time would put TX sunrise past 8am for up to 5 months, as late as 9am. It cost children’s lives in 1974.
Permanent Standard Time would end clock change and keep sunrise before 8am for health and safety.
Mexico chose pST last year. The US should too!
If one state restores permanent Standard Time this year, many more will follow next year, and the nation will abolish Daylight Saving Time the year afterward.
#EndDST
#SaveStandardTime
Save Standard Time (
@SaveStandard
) has decreased the number of permanent Daylight Saving Time bills, increased the number of permanent Standard Time bills, and helped shift the national conversation.
But our operations need greater funding. Suggestions are welcome, please.
Excitement for
#SLEEP2022
is building as we get ready to return to an in-person meeting in the beautiful city of Charlotte this June. Reserve your spot at the premier meeting for
#SleepMedicine
and sleep and circadian research today:
Tennessee: New bill: SB-342, permanent Standard Time (DST exemption), to be effective when neighboring states enact the same, filed by Senator Heidi Campbell (D)
@Campbell4TN
. 👏👏👏
Tell TN legislators to support SB-342!
@MarkHamill
Dear Mark Hamill,
Standard Time is the natural time—it should be permanent. Daylight Saving Time forces early waking—it should not be permanent.
I’d love to talk more astronomy with you anytime, thanks!
Accidentally waking early after ending Daylight Saving Time? That’s because DST was waking you early the last 7 or 8 months.
#EndDST
Standard Time lets you sleep later through winter. Permanent Standard Time lets you sleep later year-round.
#SaveStandardTime
Standard Time is
#NaturalTime
because it aligns clocks and sun. Daylight Saving Time falsifies clocks away from the sun as a means to force earlier waking.
@SenMarkey
Tomorrow, and every weekday until November, Senator Markey and others in Congress will force millions to wake an hour earlier than naturally inclined. Who in Congress is brave enough to make clocks honest again?
#SaveStandardTime
#LetUsSleep
#EndDaylightSaving
Do you notice as we move from summer into autumn…?
• Sunrise comes later.
• Sunset comes earlier.
• Sun’s zenith lowers.
• Sunlight is less sharp, more golden.
• Sunbeams reach farther through windows.
• Shadows grow longer.
#StandardTime
is a measurement of nature.
If legislators decreed thermometers to read ten degrees less—so water froze at –10°C, boiled at 90°C—it would be our responsibility as members of the scientific community to stop such severance of the scale’s connection to nature.
#EndDaylightSaving
#SaveStandardTime
@AAS_Office
Aurora time-lapse in Arizona by Kevin O’Donnell.
“One the evening of May 10th, 2024, after a gigantic solar flare triggered a G5 geomagnetic warning, even Arizona witnessed the Aurora Borealis! I took these time lapse shots north of Phoenix on Dugas Road, a Bortle 3 location,
@hubermanlab
I testify in legislatures nationwide for
@SaveStandard
, sometimes with local doctors. We show science, history, polls, visual aids. Legislators start to understand…then one of them says, “but summer!” and they flip to pass the wrong bill. More work is urgently needed everywhere.
@MayraFlores2022
Permanent Daylight Saving Time would put TX sunrise past 8am for up to 5 months, as late as 9am. It cost children’s lives in 1974.
Permanent Standard Time would end clock change and keep sunrise before 8am for health and safety.
Mexico chose pST last year. The US should too!
Daylight Saving Time, being an hour ahead of Standard Time, forces us to work/school an hour early every day. We can’t “just sleep in”. Hopefully the Colorado Senate will vote more wisely.
#COPol
#COLeg
#EndDST
Dear Senator
@JeffBridges
: In HB-1297’s hearing, you said evidence for permanent Daylight Saving Time and permanent Standard Time are equal. May I ask how?
Researchers in CO and worldwide urge permanent DST is worse than clock change, permanent Standard Time is best.
Clocks are not arbitrary. Time measures nature (where sunlight falls on earth).
#SaveStandardTime
I had a plastic longitude/time calculator as a child in the 1980s. This card-paper tool is dated 1892.
@seanspicer
Daylight Saving Time is a lie to force earlier waking—against health, safety, and prosperity. If you like DST, please set your own alarm early, let the rest of us sleep.
#DitchDST
Standard Time is the honest-to-God sundial time. It should be permanent again.
#SaveStandardTime
Senator
@PattyMurray
, please read these letters from children in 1974 asking Congress to repeal permanent DST for their safety. We need permanent Standard Time.
@SenWhitehouse
Your bill would force everyone out of bed an hour early all winter. Americans need more sleep, not less. Restore permanent Standard Time instead, let us sleep.
#SaveStandardTime
Contrary to myth, I am not a tireless advocate for Standard Time. This is my most tiring week of the year! Yet my advocacy continues…
#SaveStandardTime
@LlamaInaTux
Day and night were divided into twelve hours each, because twelve divides neatly into halves, thirds, quarters, and sixths.
Then rather than split on sunrise and set, which change, we split on midnight and midday, which are constant.
@RepDustyJohnson
No! Permanent Daylight Saving Time endangers children, farmers, commuters. Doctors and teachers endorse permanent Standard Time instead.
#SaveStandardTime
We’ve reached the time of year where I’m no longer able to read all replies and tags, likely for the next few weeks. Thanks for your support and understanding! Please keep furthering our message.
#SaveStandardTime
Oregon: A new bill, HB-3102, to implement permanent Standard Time (Daylight Saving Time exemption) immediately, from Representative Mark Owens (R, Crane), is filed. 👏
Tell state legislators to support!
#EndDaylightSaving
#SaveStandardTime
#ORLeg
“The 13th century “Noon and Midnight Manual” describes a principle of Chinese traditional medicine whereby qi—the body’s vital force—flows to different organs across twelve two-hour increments, repeating every 24 hours.” h/t
@rnkamyar
@pjmaughan
@NoemaMag
New York: New Bill: A 5733: Permanent Standard Time (Daylight Saving Time Exemption) Effective ASAP. Filed by
@JeffreyDinowitz
&
@JoAnneSimonBK52
. Referred to Committee on Governmental Operations. Tell NY legislators to support A 5733. Find them here:
@GovHowardDean
Mr Governor, do you know there are three options, not just two?
• Permanent Daylight Saving Time (worst).
• Biannual clock change (status quo).
• Permanent Standard Time (healthiest, safest).
It’s nearly 8pm in
#Arizona
. The sun has set, the twilight is rising. Midnight is still more than four hours away. The balance of
#StandardTime
is beautiful.
Why did the senator replace science-based SB-135 (permanent Standard Time) with unhealthy/unsafe HB-1297 (permanent DST)?
#COLeg
#ListenToScience
#EndDST
DST activists assure you’ll “get used” to waking early in dark/cold by alarm half the year.
Why would you want to get used to such unhealthy, unsafe unpleasantry?
“Sunshine Protection” (permanent DST) is a scam. Restore permanent Standard Time and let us sleep!
#StandardTime
Daylight Saving Time isn’t a one-day clock change. It’s forced early waking every day.
Permanent DST is forced early waking every day in the cold/dark of winter.
Clock change harms, but also DST itself—forced early waking—continually harms.
Restore permanent
#StandardTime
.
I love to see so many people express what I’ve known all my life.
@SaveStandard
and I retweet you here on Twitter, but here are a few recent examples from Facebook. Thank you!
#DitchDST
#SaveStandardTime
Dear
@GovofCO
@jaredpolis
: State legislators were misinformed by lobbyists in passing
#HB1297
. Scientific consensus is against permanent Daylight Saving Time. Please veto for public health!
I love summer and noon. I love spring, autumn, sunrise, and sunset. I love winter, and I love the night. And I wouldn’t try to rearrange them one bit.
#NaturalTime
Updated tile map. We need to nurture the little yellow spots and quash the little blue spots. We want more boxes outlined and filled in yellow, not blue.
#SaveStandardTime
@helenjung
Polling shows Oregonians want permanent Standard Time more than permanent DST. National polling agrees. Tell your legislators!
#EndDST
#SaveStandardTime
@tkyahagi72
@SaveStandard
@seattletimes
We have made monumental progress over the last three years, and especially in the last two weeks.
Discussion has advanced from merely ending clock change to ensuring the correct clock (permanent Standard Time) is kept (please keep reminding lawmakers).
We will get there soon.
Winter solstice is tomorrow in the northern hemisphere. We’ll have our year’s shortest daylight, then longer daylight into summer.
However, sunrises continue to come later until early January, due to astronomical imperfections. Sunsets have become later since early December.
Daylight Saving Time is a deadly pain. Permanent DST is indeed worse. But there’s a third way—permanent Standard Time—endorsed by doctors and teachers.
@GovHowardDean
, let’s
#SaveStandardTime
!
The volume of evidence being published against Daylight Saving Time and for permanent Standard Time is so great, it’s become a monumental challenge to keep
@SaveStandard
’s sources up to date!
#EndDST
#SaveStandardTime
“You can change the hour of sunrise, but you can’t change the time of sunrise.
“Time is quantifiable, but that doesn’t mean time is a quantity.”
—Unnamed friend of Michael Downing
H.R.1279 Sunshine Protection Act (permanent DST) is now sponsored by
@repsummerlee
(D-PA)—against advice of American Medical Association, National Safety Council, dozens more. Tell Congress NO, file a new bill for permanent Standard Time instead.
@SenMarcoRubio
No, sir. History, science, and common sense are against permanent DST and for permanent Standard Time, the natural clock set to the sun (
#GodsClock
,
#NaturalTime
).
I’m pleased my first testimony at a legislative hearing in 2022 is in support of a bill for permanent Standard Time! Comments can be filed (yes to SB-5511) and video can be watched (8am PST) here.
#SaveStandardTime
#WALeg
@PattyMurray
University of Washington doctors urge no! Please reverse to permanent Standard Time. Permanent DST forces early waking, deprives sleep, endangers kids and workers!
#EndDaylightSaving
Dear
@GovAbbott
, Mexico is now on permanent Standard Time. Permanent DST bills also failed repeatedly in Texas’s neighboring states. pDST would disrupt TX business and risk TX lives. No on HB 1422!
Daylight Saving Time gives you less time each day.
When the sun sets, my clock (in Arizona) says 7:30pm Standard Time, and I still have 90 minutes to get to bed by 9pm. If we were on DST, it would say 8:30pm, and I would only have 30 minutes.
#DitchDST
#SaveStandardTime
Ben Franklin is often credited/blamed for inventing
#DaylightSavingTime
.
In 1784, he satirically suggested we force early waking upon night-loving Parisians to save candle wax.
#ItWasAJoke
Today is
#equinox
, one of two days each year (one in spring, one in autumn) when day and night are equal in duration (12 hours each).
The sun rises near 6am and sets near 6pm
#StandardTime
, halfway between midnight and noon (Daylight Saving Time offsets this balance).
A new
@SaveStandard
webpage now hosts our draft bills. For anyone wishing to give their state and federal lawmakers exact language of how to end Daylight Saving Time, please send them here, or send them a PDF from here. Thanks!
#SaveStandardTime
@SenMarcoRubio
“The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.” Proverbs 11:1 NIV
“Sunshine Protection” (permanent Daylight Saving Time) is a dishonest scale. We need Standard Time permanent again instead.
#DitchDST
#SaveStandardTime