A U.S. Senate bill to make daylight saving time permanent passed by unanimous consent — meaning without an actual roll-call vote. But the kind of daylight saving that would help Alaska is borrowing an hour from June and giving it to January.
Many Alaskans will be thrilled to learn we’re this close close to abolishing the drudgery of semiannual clock-changing.
To hear U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., tell it, staying on daylight saving time year-round will make children smarter, neighbors nicer and cats more cuddly. He says it’ll even make Congress function right. It doesn’t do that, of course. Daylight saving time can only provide an hour of evening light by borrowing it from the morning. And permanent daylight saving time would bring some unintended winter consequences in Alaska.
In Alaska, he said, permanent daylight saving time doesn’t bring as much benefit, or exact as high a cost. “You know, the real solution is to change the axial tilt of the earth, and then that solves everyone’s problem,” Brettschneider said.The more significant impact in Alaska of making daylight saving time permanent would be to spare everyone the ritual of resetting the clocks twice a year.
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