Column: Kids walking to school in the dark? Year-round daylight saving time in California makes no sense
You still want daylight saving time year-round? California voters answered an emphatic “yes” last year. Well, look outside these chilly mornings about 7 o’clock.
OK, everyone would get an extra hour of sunlight in the early evening. It wouldn’t get dark until around 6. And what’s with this “saving” nonsense? No law can change Earth’s rotation around the sun. We’ll get the same amount of daylight no matter how we set our clocks. The only question is whether we want more at the start of the day or toward the end.
Six of the seven counties that voted against the measure were in the San Joaquin Valley farm belt. Farmers apparently don’t like milking cows and gathering eggs in the dark. The seventh county was Del Norte in the far northwest, where there’s lots of commercial fishing and logging. Congress and the president must approve a switch to permanent daylight saving time, although California could move to all-year standard time on its own. Arizona and Hawaii did that long ago.
But despite the overwhelming vote of Californians, things are moving rather lethargically in Sacramento. There are much higher priorities such as wildfires, power outages, homelessness and affordable housing.
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