Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 17/09/2026There is no “Standard Daylight Time”. There is Standard Time (the clock set by the sun), and there is Daylight Saving Time (the clock set an hour fast). 130
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 16/09/2026The orchid dropped its flowers in July. Now in September it grows new roots. 031
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026“Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.” 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026If Wonder Woman lassoes a clock set to Daylight Saving Time, it falls back to Standard Time. 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026“And you can spring forward next year or not. I’m not going to.” 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 03/09/2026In “The Truman Show” (1998), the nearly full moon is seen close above the setting sun. At that lunar phase, the moon should have just risen in the opposite side of the sky. Astronomy class was apparently omitted from Truman’s school. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/08/2026Yes, amend the Sunshine Protection Act from permanent DST to permanent Standard Time! 141
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/08/2026Standard Time is better for health. But golf lobbyists think Daylight Saving Time makes more money. 140
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 01/08/2026Lawmakers in summer easily forget the difficulties of late sunrises that DST brings to other seasons. 030
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/07/2026Daylight Saving Time’s “extra hour” is stolen from our sleep every night. 011
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 18/07/2026No, this bill immediately repeals DST exemption the moment it passes! 100
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026No, permanent Standard Time more honestly tells the sun’s position in the sky. Permanent DST is a hidden mandate to work earlier and sleep less, which increases fatal crashes and chronic illnesses when implemented. 1133
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026No, permanent Standard Time provides an essential foundation to starting school later. We already start school too early, and permanent DST would make us start an additional hour earlier (hidden by fudging the clock time). 0111
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026Senator Cotton rightly opposes the “Sunshine Protection Act” because its permanent DST would send kids to school in the dark. We need Congress to support instead permanent Standard Time with the “Sunshine for Our Kids Act” filed yesterday. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026Thank you, Reps Scanlon and Harrigan! Permanent Standard Time is the healthy clock and the right clock! 010
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/07/2026When every town differs by a few minutes, it becomes difficult to prevent trains from crashing into each other. This is why solar time was standardized in 1883. 120
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/07/2026Georgia is on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone, which increases its solar misalignment, which then decreases its residents’ sleep and increases their injuries. Most of Georgia would fare best on Central Standard Time, but at a minimum Georgia should ditch Eastern Daylight Time. 320
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/07/2026No, as I wrote above, studies in the US also find increased fatal accidents and illnesses the further clocks stray from solar time. Examples: • www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... • www.newschannel10.com/2023/01/30/e... • journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... • www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 210
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 03/07/2026China’s overly wide single time zone lowers longevity. Studies in the US find similar effects on the western edges of our own time zones. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 03/07/2026San Diego’s mean solar time is even closer to its Standard Time than is Wichita’s. 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026DST was supposed to be temporary and for summers only. Its renewals and extensions boil us like frogs. 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026Changing the clock makes us set alarms an hour earlier than Standard Time, which reduces sleep and health. Americans on the western edges of time zones suffer more obesity, stroke, heart disease, and cancer. China’s one overly wide time zone reduces longevity in western regions. 120
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026Humans are diurnal creatures. Our bodily functions have circadian rhythms, encoded in our genes, and entrained to the sun. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 24/06/2026Humans adjust to travel because the timing of sunlight changes with travel. We don’t adjust to DST because DST does not change sunlight. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 24/06/2026No. Deviation from mean solar time is a good metric. It correlates with observed health and safety outcomes in multiple studies. And except for a few square miles in Maine, everywhere in the US is closer to solar time on Standard Time than on DST. This is also true in most other nations. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 21/06/2026Front page and above the fold! Thank you, Armstrong Williams and @baltimoresun.bsky.social! 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 18/06/2026Yes! I love balanced, natural, honest time in Arizona, I love it in Iowa during winter, and I wish we had it in Iowa during summer. 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 14/06/2026This orchid began to bloom around New Year’s, it reached full bloom around equinox, and it now is sprouting a new leaf (zoom into the center of the photo to see). 141
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 12/06/2026Yes, Congresswoman Scanlon, please help stop the so-called “Sunshine Protection Act”. Dark mornings and bright nights deprive sleep, harm health, and reduce productivity. Thank you! 020
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/06/2026Quotations on left and videos on right are real. Central headline is parody. Politico did not publish this meme. 000
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 08/06/2026I saw yet another claim that states can continue to opt for permanent Standard Time under the Sunshine Protection Act (even told to “go look it up”), so I quickly created this infographic. 110
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/06/2026Franklin wrote an essay mocking Parisians who partied all night and slept all day. He suggested taxing their windows shutters and firing cannons at dawn, to wake them early and save candle wax. It was a joke, and it was never about clocks. 032
Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/06/2026Daylight Saving Time was introduced and extended to force earlier waking, in the hopes of increasing after-work spending on golfing and shopping. 111