A Great Bill to End a Bad Idea: HB1069
News and Analysis on the 2025 Legislative Session
Dec 18, 2024
NEWS. December 18, 2024, in Little Rock.
The 2025 legislative session kicks off next month. However, bills are already being filed. Today, a bill was filed by Representatives Meeks to end daylight savings time in Arkansas.
Pursuant to the Bill, Arkansas would only recognize Central Standard Time. Currently, Arkansas follows the daylight savings time model wherein clocks “spring forward” one hour in the Spring and “fall back” one hour during the fall. The model is designed to maximize the daylight hours for human activity.
The concept is that forcing humans to be more active in daylight hours promotes energy efficiency. Daylight savings time moves the hours of the work and activity of the daylight hours around the time of maximal sunlight.
Several are not fans of the model as it interrupts sleep patterns and eating routines which can impact human productivity, thereby eroding the alleged efficiency of the maximal daylight hours.
Use of daylight savings time is optional. Currently, only Arizona and Hawaii do not use the daylight savings time model. State employees will be given the option of moving their work schedules one hour to accommodate business practice with other states or entities that do observe daylight savings time.
ANALYSIS. There is an old pearl of wisdom attributed to Native Americans about daylight savings time.[1]“Only a white man thinks that cutting the end off a blanket and sewing it to the other end makes a longer blanket.”
As a kid, I enjoyed the “fall back” aspect of CDT as I got an extra hour of sleep, which I promptly paid for next Spring. Now that I am old and crusty, I don’t like having my sleep disturbed. I am all for this bill.
See the bill here.
[1] Suddenly, I find myself asking “am I racist.”
Attorney. America First. Sued Hunter Biden for child support. Represented President Trump in the 2020 Wisconsin election challenge. Former attorney for the Wisconsin Special Counsel. An official “Tough Cookie” per President Trump.
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