Posted on 04/16/2017 7:10:55 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The last time there was an attempt to “lock the clock” (do away with daylight savings time), it was made longer. About 10-12 years ago, they added a month on each end of DST. That meant that all the traffic lights in the City had to be reprogrammed. Naturally, the City personnel couldn’t do that.
how about it. I can get in 18 holes of golf.
“Getting rid of it and just using one system, either system, would be music to my ears.”
Bump! Or, split the difference.
Reasonable arguments haven’t worked, but maybe the rhyming catch phrase “lock the clock” will work in a country where reasoned thought is devalued but slogans are taken as meaningful.
In the winter, I needed a longer blanket because my feet got cold. So I cut the top of the blanket off and sewed it on the bottom. In the summer, I cut those threads and re-sew that piece back on the top. It works wonders!!!
I would love to see Alaska permanently observe Pacific time.
You are not alone;) There are a lot of comments using that analogy - a shame the bureaucrats are not as smart as tax payers who are capable of solving real problems.
How about abolishing Standard Time instead? I hate it when it gets dark early.
I detest daylight savings time, except for one thing: my garden grows SO much better because of that extra hour of sunshine in the summer.
Amen! I’m with you on that.
—correct-—and , IIRC, the “kids getting mowed down in the morning” myth was debunked, also—
...kids were getting hit and killed walking to school buses because it was still dark in the morning.
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Do we know if that is really true?
I think “biannual” is okay to use as a synonym for “semiannual”, whereas “biennial” means “every two years”.
I think the idea that it’s “savings” time is absurd.
But I agree. I don’t mind getting up in the dark and seeing the sun rise even if I drive to work in the dark. But I hate hate hate hate driving home from work in the dark.
One study I read said that the window of danger for kids in the morning was minimum because who gets to the bus stop early, but it did have the kids outside playing in the dark before being called in to dinner.
This was, of course, before we had a nation of couch potato kids who don’t play outside anymore. For which the nanny state would arrest the parents unless constantly supervised.
So, change school hours so they start classes later.
No, semi-annually means twice a year, bi-annually means once every two years.
Well said and AMEN!
Year-round DST was referred to as “War Time” during WWI and WWII.
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