{"id":21,"date":"2015-01-16T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopdaylightsavingtime.us\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-01-16T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T13:52:29","slug":"washington-state-requests-consideration-for-year-round-dst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Washington state requests consideration for year-round DST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, a reminder that <span style=\"color: #008000;\">this site supports year-round DST<\/span>\u2026 it\u2019s <strong>DST transitions<\/strong> that kill people!<\/p>\n<p>The following bill information is taken from the Washington state legislative web site and <a href=\"http:\/\/TrackBill.com\" target=\"_blank\">TrackBill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Designation: House Joint Memorial 4001<\/h1>\n<p>State of Washington, 64th Legislature, Regular Session<\/p>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Requests congress to allow states to adopt year-round daylight saving time.<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"LEFT\">Sponsors<\/h3>\n<p>Representatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Schmick of the 9th Legislative District<\/li>\n<li>Derek Stanford of the 1st Legislative District<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Text, As Prefiled January 9, 2015<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, The United States department of energy determined in a 2008 report that extending daylight saving time saves; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, An additional hour of daylight in the evening will help the economy; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, An additional hour of daylight in the evening will allow for more outdoor recreation time; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, An additional hour of daylight in the evening will reduce crime; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, An additional hour of daylight at the end of the day will reduce automobile accidents; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, Changing clocks twice a year has a negative impact on agriculture;<\/p>\n<p>NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that Congress allow states to adopt daylight saving time on a year-round basis.<\/p>\n<p>BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-21\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-21\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-21\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, a reminder that this site supports year-round DST\u2026 it\u2019s DST transitions that kill people! The following bill information is taken from the Washington state legislative web site and TrackBill. Designation: House Joint Memorial 4001 State of Washington, 64th Legislature, Regular Session Summary Requests congress to allow states to adopt year-round daylight saving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-21\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-21\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-21\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/?p=21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-states","category-washington","tag-hjm4001","tag-wa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Cw9H-l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TimeZoneReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}