On November 8, Members of the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee approved HB-846, An Act amending the act of April 13, 1887 (P.L.21, No.18), entitled “An act for the establishment of a uniform standard of time throughout the Commonwealth,” prohibiting the use of daylight saving time.
The committee vote drew 15 YEAs and 9 NAYs. For the most part, the vote split along party lines, with one notable exception. Malcolm Kenyatta, a Philadelphia Democrat who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate race next year – he voted with the majority, as did Maureen Madden, a Democrat from Stroudsburg.
According to the Website of Save Standard Time, “a nonprofit, nonpartisan, donor-funded, volunteer-run effort to preserve and extend the observation of longitudinally correct Standard Time,” Daylight Savings Time represents both a public health and a public safety threat. From their website – Both the change of clocks to DST and the continual observation of DST pose lethal threats to human health. Changing clocks causes acute harm that persists for several days or even several weeks. Continually observing DST causes chronic harms that last for months (in the case of seasonal observance) or years without end (in the case of year-round observance). We “never adjust” to DST—instead, we sleep less long and less well than we need.
Save Standard Time also claims that – DST risks the lives of commuting children and adults, whether we observe it seasonally or year-round. Other studies estimate as many as 195 motorists’ and 171 pedestrians’ lives each year are lost.
I like this. Daylight savings time is outdated and saves nothing.
Great idea i loathe this darkness it’s not good for your health at all! Mental, Physical,, Emotional! There’s more suicidal people (a known fact) Plus workers at malls, etc whom must walk , or whatever kind they take are sitting ducks! I am all for it!
My vote is yea for this Bill, which is long in coming.