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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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I like the idea of staying on DST year around. It's only 2 days a year to switch back and forth but it's annoying.

Besides, let's do it for the children.

1 posted on 10/24/2014 1:11:48 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

How about changing the schedules, instead of having a fiction that we can change time. (Allowing for rounding to the hour, due to travel schedules and the speed of transportation). The farmers in Indiana have stood firm. The cows don’t like it!


2 posted on 10/24/2014 1:14:40 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: PROCON

Was tried during the Carter Administration. Kids waiting for the schoolbus in pitch darkness turned out to be an unpopular idea.


3 posted on 10/24/2014 1:14:45 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PROCON

Arizona stays on standard time year round. Don’t know about any other states.

But does it really save energy, as that was a key reason to do this????


4 posted on 10/24/2014 1:15:46 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: PROCON

It’s so the kids can go to and come from school while it is light out. Otherwise, they would be going to school before the sun rises.


5 posted on 10/24/2014 1:16:05 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: PROCON

Totally agree.


6 posted on 10/24/2014 1:16:42 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Poser

Couldn’t they adjust the starting time of school, rather than changing the clocks? Just a thought.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 1:17:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: PROCON

This was tried for a moment back in the Nixon years. The sun didn’t rise until 10am.


8 posted on 10/24/2014 1:17:34 PM PDT by lurk
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To: PROCON

I used to think the same thing. Leave DST on year around. But now I’m retired and I could care less. Spring forward 6 hours and fall back 4. I don’t care.


9 posted on 10/24/2014 1:18:15 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: PROCON

That extra hour of sun every day is what causes global warming.


10 posted on 10/24/2014 1:19:05 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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It’s so the kids can go to and come from school while it is light out.

But if you go back an hour Nov. 2, the next school morning will be darker.

11 posted on 10/24/2014 1:19:34 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

DST, burn it on the ash heap of history.


12 posted on 10/24/2014 1:19:35 PM PDT by discostu (YAHTZEE!)
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To: Starstruck

LOL! Now THAT’S a plan I can go with.


13 posted on 10/24/2014 1:20:10 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Starstruck

LOL!


14 posted on 10/24/2014 1:20:28 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

WHy not just keep standard time all year round?

The point is, stop this silly time-switching.


15 posted on 10/24/2014 1:21:30 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: PROCON

Here in Arizona, we don’t change the time. But for anything outside the state, the time effectively changes anyway.


16 posted on 10/24/2014 1:23:06 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: Starstruck
I’m retired and I could care less.

Me too. Darn spoiled kids!

When I was their age....

17 posted on 10/24/2014 1:23:07 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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I’d rather keep Standard Time year round,like Hawaii.

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18 posted on 10/24/2014 1:25:00 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Yep. I remember that. Of course, they could have started school 30 to 60 minutes later, but I guess that though never occurred to them.

Personally, I'd like to flip off the time changing idea the way they do in Indiana and Arizona.

A decent compromise might be to put in half-hour time zones so the difference would be muted.

Our area (near Pittsburgh) really has more of a midwestern than an east coast feel.

Run the time zone down the Allegheny ridge and call us the east central time zone.

19 posted on 10/24/2014 1:26:05 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

>>But does it really save energy, as that was a key reason to do this????<<

I thought it had something to do with farming or harvest.


20 posted on 10/24/2014 1:26:10 PM PDT by servantboy777
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