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Mr Jay Pea

@jtheletter.com
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“‘It rejoices my heart, but do your people not know except by looking at this thing how much of the day has worn?’” —CS Lewis Let’s #DitchDST and #SaveStandardTime! 👉 @savestandard.bsky.social

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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 17/09/2026
There 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).
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 16/09/2026
The orchid dropped its flowers in July. Now in September it grows new roots.
Photo of the base of the orchid, where two new green roots can be seen growing outward.Photo of the base of the orchid, where two new green roots can be seen growing outward.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 16/09/2026
Pie charts of three recent polls.
Three pie charts: One from Gallup finds most (48%) support permanent Standard Time. One from ActiVote finds most (49%) support permanent Standard Time. One from Rasmussen Reports finds most (41%) support permanent Standard Time.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 15/09/2026
Seymour!
“Simpsons” meme. Principal Skinner wonders to himself: “Should I start my day earlier to get more daylight at the end of my day?” He answers himself: “No, we should ‘spring forward’ all clocks and force everyone to wake an hour early every day.”
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 14/09/2026
I sympathize with Mr David G here.
Screenshot from X. User “Save Standard Time” posted an article from 1962 with the headline “Eugene Back on Standard Time”, in reference to the city in Oregon. User “David G” replied: “Never so much wished I was named Eugene as today”.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 09/09/2026
Serve no fries before their time.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026
“Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.”
“The Simpsons” meme. Mr Scorpio facepalms and smiles. Caption: “If adding one hour to the clock is beneficial… Adding twenty-three more would maximize the benefit!”
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026
If Wonder Woman lassoes a clock set to Daylight Saving Time, it falls back to Standard Time.
Wonder Woman meme from the old TV show. WW points her finger with a sassy expression on her face. Top caption: “Daylight Saving Time is a trick to make you set your alarm an hour earlier than Standard Time”. Bottom caption: “You can do that on your own without changing the clock”.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026
“And you can spring forward next year or not. I’m not going to.”
“That MF” meme. A distraught woman on an airplane points her finger. Caption: “Daylight Saving Time is not real!”
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/09/2026
Daylight Saving Time is a delusion.
Two photos of the “Gigachad”. In the first, he looks skeptically at the camera with the sun behind him, captioned “You want it lighter later?” In the second, he smiles, captioned “Start your own day earlier! Let clocks stay on Standard”.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 03/09/2026
In “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.
Screen still from “The Truman Show” (1998): The silhouette of two men on a hilltop watching a setting sun, with a nearly full moon not far above the sun.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/08/2026
Yes, amend the Sunshine Protection Act from permanent DST to permanent Standard Time!
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/08/2026
Standard Time is better for health. But golf lobbyists think Daylight Saving Time makes more money.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 01/08/2026
Lawmakers in summer easily forget the difficulties of late sunrises that DST brings to other seasons.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 26/07/2026
Hank gives Bobby “the talk”.
“King of the Hill” meme. Hank tells his son, “Daylight Saving Time was invented by European golfers to make all us regular folks wake up an hour early.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 26/07/2026
Standard Time is king! #DitchDST
“King of the Hill” meme. Hank is at some customer service desk, looking frustrated. He says, “I just want my clock aligned to the got-dang sun!”
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/07/2026
Daylight Saving Time’s “extra hour” is stolen from our sleep every night.
Meme of “Office Space” (1999). “What would you do if you had an extra hour?” “I’ll tell you what I’d do, man. Scroll my phone and watch TV at the same time, man.”
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 24/07/2026
Sometimes I want to share the inane spam I receive.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 23/07/2026
But he previously claimed it was for our health.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 18/07/2026
No, this bill immediately repeals DST exemption the moment it passes!
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 17/07/2026
CANT SAVE DAYLIGHT
In the style of the Gadsden Flag: A sundial on a yellow background with the words “DONT SPRING FORWARD”.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026
No, 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026
No, 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).
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026
Senator 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026
Thank you, Reps Scanlon and Harrigan! Permanent Standard Time is the healthy clock and the right clock!
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/07/2026
Yes! Permanent Standard Time is best!
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/07/2026
When 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.
Photograph from 1853 of a train wreck caused by miscalculation in departure times.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/07/2026
Georgia 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 06/07/2026
No, 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/...
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 03/07/2026
China’s overly wide single time zone lowers longevity. Studies in the US find similar effects on the western edges of our own time zones.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 03/07/2026
San Diego’s mean solar time is even closer to its Standard Time than is Wichita’s.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 28/06/2026
Two timely quotations from CS Lewis.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 26/06/2026
You feel it.
Screen still from “The Matrix” (1999). Neo stares at a spoon, which reflects the image of a bald child. Caption reads: “THERE IS NO EXTRA HOUR”.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026
DST was supposed to be temporary and for summers only. Its renewals and extensions boil us like frogs.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026
Timing of sunlight matters. DST has no benefits.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026
Changing 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 25/06/2026
Humans are diurnal creatures. Our bodily functions have circadian rhythms, encoded in our genes, and entrained to the sun.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 24/06/2026
Humans adjust to travel because the timing of sunlight changes with travel. We don’t adjust to DST because DST does not change sunlight.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 24/06/2026
No. 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 21/06/2026
Front page and above the fold! Thank you, Armstrong Williams and @baltimoresun.bsky.social!
Front-page and above-the-fold half of “The Baltimore Sun” from Thursday, June 18, 2026. First headline is “The Interview – Jay Pea – Advocate makes case for standard time – By Armstrong Williams”.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 18/06/2026
Yes! 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 14/06/2026
This 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).
Photograph of an orchid with more than a dozen pink blooms, in a white pot on a wooden table. A new, small green leaf is rising from its center.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 12/06/2026
Yes, 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!
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/06/2026
Quotations on left and videos on right are real. Central headline is parody. Politico did not publish this meme.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 10/06/2026
Quotation image of Senator Cotton’s speech last year.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 09/06/2026
Another version.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 08/06/2026
I 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/06/2026
Franklin 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.
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/06/2026
Virgin/Chad meme
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Mr Jay Pea @jtheletter.com · 07/06/2026
Daylight Saving Time was introduced and extended to force earlier waking, in the hopes of increasing after-work spending on golfing and shopping.
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