Besides, let's do it for the children.
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!
Was tried during the Carter Administration. Kids waiting for the schoolbus in pitch darkness turned out to be an unpopular idea.
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????
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.
Totally agree.
This was tried for a moment back in the Nixon years. The sun didn’t rise until 10am.
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.
That extra hour of sun every day is what causes global warming.
DST, burn it on the ash heap of history.
WHy not just keep standard time all year round?
The point is, stop this silly time-switching.
Here in Arizona, we don’t change the time. But for anything outside the state, the time effectively changes anyway.
I’d rather keep Standard Time year round,like Hawaii.
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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.
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.
Split the difference and call it a day.
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.
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.