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Daylight Saving Time: Keep it year round
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/opinion/yates-daylight-saving-time/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 ^ | Oct. 24, 2014 | Scott C. Yates

Posted on 10/24/2014 1:11:47 PM PDT by PROCON

(CNN) -- On Sunday, November 2, it will again be the end of Daylight Saving Time. Many of us will be muttering to ourselves as we wander around resetting all of our various clocks -- on the thermostat, clock radio and stove, among other places.

Sure, you'll get an extra hour of sleep by turning back the clock by an hour in the fall. But if you have a regular day job, you'll be commuting home in the dark instead of in daylight come the following day.

Why do we do this every fall? And why do we dial forward the clock by an hour every spring.

Daylight Saving Time has been around for a good part of 20th century, but there's no really good reason why we should continue with the status quo.

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To: lurk

Crimea jumped 2 time zones when the Russians seized it.
That must be awful!


21 posted on 10/24/2014 1:26:11 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Veggie Todd
That extra hour of sun every day is what causes global warming.

Damn straight. Let's end it now, to save the erf!

22 posted on 10/24/2014 1:26:44 PM PDT by PROCON (Ask Yourself This..Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago?)
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To: PROCON

I’m for keeping Standard time year-round. The idea of getting up before sunrise is for the birds.


23 posted on 10/24/2014 1:26:55 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: PROCON

What is the difference between commuting in the dark in the morning and the evening? Besides, if we don’t get off DST, the kids will be waiting for the school bus in the dark.


24 posted on 10/24/2014 1:27:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Indiana now accepts DST like the rest of us.
They changed a few years ago. I think Arizona
and Hawaii are the lone holdouts.

I used to live in Michigan on the far northwest edge
of the time zone. In June you’d go outside at 10PM and it would not be quite dark yet. Really messed with my brain!


25 posted on 10/24/2014 1:28:11 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PROCON
Sure, you'll get an extra hour of sleep by turning back the clock by an hour in the fall

Tell my dog that. I cannot seem to make him understand...

26 posted on 10/24/2014 1:28:44 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: PROCON

DST is coming again?

Crap, my wife is a total mess 2-3 weeks after the time change. She keeps asking, is it really 8.....no it’s 7 look at the clock.

I’m not sure who is worse off, her or me.


27 posted on 10/24/2014 1:29:02 PM PDT by occamrzr06 (A great life is but a series of dogs!)
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To: PROCON

The sun comes up at nearly 9 AM in January in year round DST.


28 posted on 10/24/2014 1:29:20 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: lurk
This was tried for a moment back in the Nixon years. The sun didn’t rise until 10am.

Obama has been president for six years. The sun has yet to rise.

29 posted on 10/24/2014 1:29:43 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Let those Ebola-carrying Liberians into the USA. What could go wrong?)
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To: lurk
The sun didn’t rise until 10am.

Exaggerating just a little, aren't we? Where was that? Anchorage, Alaska? I grew up in Fargo, Dakota Territory, pretty far north and toward the west end of the Central Time Zone. Even with year-round DST, it was light by 8:45 am.

Before then, you'd have the Northern Lights sometimes, but that's another story.

30 posted on 10/24/2014 1:30:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Now I don’t to readjust myself for weeks trying to get used to daylights saving time. I really prefer the way we have it in AZ, the only thing is, I have to recalculate what timezone we are in when the change does happen for the rest of the US.

Hawaii also does not have daylight savings time and and it was a bummer when I left for CA and had to recalibrate ( actually for a lot of things.)


31 posted on 10/24/2014 1:30:25 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: PROCON

Split the difference and call it a day.


32 posted on 10/24/2014 1:30:50 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Growing up in Fargo, we played baseball until 10:30 pm in the early part of the summer. By late summer, we had to knock it off at 10 pm.


33 posted on 10/24/2014 1:34:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: PROCON

It’s practically year around anyway. Every year they keep extending the months. It used to be the last weekend in April until the last in October.

It’s now pushing 7 months.


34 posted on 10/24/2014 1:35:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOPe has to EARN my support and not blame me for their loss.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Did Indianapolis finally cave? They used to hold out regardless of the rest of Indiana.


35 posted on 10/24/2014 1:36:32 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOPe has to EARN my support and not blame me for their loss.)
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To: PROCON

The only good thing about it is if you use it to remind you to change the batteries in your smoke alarms.
I just wish they could also teach the animal kingdom to cooperate. The people rushing home are suddenly plowing through herds of deer that cross that road at the same time everyday. They are now running into the stupid humans that play with clocks.


36 posted on 10/24/2014 1:36:42 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Vigilanteman

They do play that annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Alaska


37 posted on 10/24/2014 1:37:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PROCON

I like standard time in the winter.
Life does slow down a bit when it gets dark earlier. We all need that.


38 posted on 10/24/2014 1:39:26 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: PROCON

I like DST because where I live it gets dark at 9:00 on the longest day of the year. It would be 8:00 under Standard Time, and I just really like it being light later.

In fact, I’d prefer DST all year, but I do understand the issue of kids waiting in the dark for school busses.

But the real headache with switching is what we have to do for hospital computer systems to deal with there being two 1:30 AMs on the same day. That’s a real issue. The “spring forward” isn’t too bad because from the computer’s point of view, it’s just that nothing happens from 2:00 - 3:00 AM. But the “fall back” is an entirely different story. If a patient arrives in the Emergency Department at 1:30 AM, which 1:30 was it?!

It can be dealt with, but it literally takes hours and hours of planning by dozens of people to make sure all systems, interfaces, and people know what to do at that time. Planning usually starts 6 weeks ahead of time.

And several dozen people who normally would get the extra hour of sleep instead need to be awake and working to bring systems down, bring them up, check to make sure everything worked, and handle any miscommunications between systems that occurred.


39 posted on 10/24/2014 1:43:13 PM PDT by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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To: PROCON

???

If you are going to keep one system use the system that makes noon the sun at its highest point in the sky and make 8-4 work/school schedules 7-3. The purpose of daylight savings is for longer daylight in the evenings....so adjust your schedules accordingly

BTW if you move to Arizona the clocks don’t change.


40 posted on 10/24/2014 1:44:47 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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