Posted on 10/24/2014 1:11:47 PM PDT by PROCON
Crimea jumped 2 time zones when the Russians seized it.
That must be awful!
Damn straight. Let's end it now, to save the erf!
I’m for keeping Standard time year-round. The idea of getting up before sunrise is for the birds.
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.
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!
Tell my dog that. I cannot seem to make him understand...
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.
The sun comes up at nearly 9 AM in January in year round DST.
Obama has been president for six years. The sun has yet to rise.
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.
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.)
Split the difference and call it a day.
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.
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.
Did Indianapolis finally cave? They used to hold out regardless of the rest of Indiana.
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.
They do play that annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Alaska
I like standard time in the winter.
Life does slow down a bit when it gets dark earlier. We all need that.
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.
???
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.
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