Hello there. It is Eric Eurickson here. The phone number is 877-9737-937-7-425. Glad to have you with me.

We got, well, I want to begin and listen. Charlie, listen to me here. I want to take your phone calls on this because this may be the most controversial

thing that happened in this country in a long time despite unanimity in the United States Senate.

Now, what am I talking about here if you haven't heard?

The United States Senate, the House of Representatives has not voted yet, but the United States Senate has passed unanimously Marco Rubio's law to make daylight saving time permanent.

This would mean we would fall back, under the legislation, we would fall back one more time in this fall.

And then next March, we would spring forward and never change time again.

Now, the reason we would fall back one more time is because airlines, telecom companies,

and computers need time to do updates because so many systems in this country automatically do it, automatically are set to spring forward fallback. All the systems need time to put in the programming to make sure

and to test it that we're not going to have any screw ups. The airline industry in particular

asks for more time apparently. So we would fall back

one more time this fall, spring forward in March, and then never do it again. The tourism industry

in the country wants this desperately. The tourism industry, particularly in Florida and California,

has been begging for permanent daylight saving time.

Interestingly enough, if we stay on daylight saving time, where we are now, when you spring forward, that's daylight saving time.

When you fall back, that's standard time.

Standard time is natural time.

Standard time is as the world naturally occurs, daylight saving time is the artificial bit of time.

Daylight saving time puts you an hour ahead. But by doing so, the eastern time zone in the United States under daylight saving time is exactly 12 hours from China. So if it is 1 p.m. on the East Coast during the spring and summer,

it is 1 a.m. in Beijing. It's very easy to remember that one. But there are some problems and you should know

we did this before the 1970s and it wound up being deeply unpopular.

This is from the Washington Post December or January 8th, 1974. The sun rose at 8.27 a.m.

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