Posted on 04/16/2017 7:10:55 AM PDT by sodpoodle
****but benefits us greatly by giving us more daylight****
The daylight is not affected by our time clocks - Geez WF, IMHO you are one of the smartest FReepers and I am SHOCKED that you made that comment.
XOXOXO
We can no more legislate “more daylight” than “more summer.”
I like the extra hour in the evening.
Me too. I like the light when I can enjoy it a bit after work.
Evenin be prime stoop-sitting time baby.
The East Coast, particularly the Northeast, would be screwed without DST because in the summer daylight comes while most people are sleeping and they are robbed of daylight when they get home from work.
http://www.businessinsider.com/health-effects-of-daylight-saving-time-2014-10
The Daylight Savings Time debate should consider how unhealthy the ridiculous practice is.
No it wasn’t . The changes in the seventies were first sold as a way to save energy. When that proved false they continued it as a way for families to spend more time together.
DST is a joke. It is like having a six foot blanket, cutting off a foot at one end, sewing that foot on the other end, and then claiming you have a longer blanket
Ben was joking about it. He then gave his blanket analogy
I love it!
Both of these words mean twice yearly, no?
The best explanation I ever heard about DST was this:
DST is like cutting off one hour (say 12 inches) from one end of a blanklet and sowing it onto the other end of that blanket.
It would be easier to keep the clock as is and businesses/schools, etc., could have ‘summer hours’ and ‘winter hours’ if they thought they needed more daylight time.
So then lock the current time as "time". It's all arbitrary and the government has shown then can even change the dates for this nonsense.
--it took my cats about a week to get used to different early am feeding time though--
“Let’s compromise, shift the clock 1/2 hour and leave it there.”
That is what I have been saying.
I live in Texas, it’s summer already.
No they're not. First because it was Nixon, not Carter and second because it was year-round DST, not Standard Time.
From wiki
During the 1973 oil embargo by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), in an effort to conserve fuel, Congress enacted a trial period of year-round DST (P.L. 93-182), beginning January 6, 1974, and ending April 27, 1975.[8] The trial was hotly debated. Those in favor pointed to increased daylight hours in the winter evening: more time for recreation, reduced lighting and heating demands, reduced crime, and reduced automobile accidents. The opposition was concerned about children leaving for school in the dark. The act was amended in October 1974 (P.L. 93-434) to return to standard time for the period beginning October 27, 1974, and ending February 23, 1975, when DST resumed. When the trial ended in 1975, the country returned to observing summer DST (with the aforementioned exceptions).[7]
Me too! I really like daylight saving time!
I like the extra hour in the evening.
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Same here. We need to keep this time and do away with standard.
I think we have more to worry about in this country than whether or not we have DST. How bout we concentrate on stopping terrorists and illegals and MS-13 and Marxists in the shadow government.
I hear what you are saying. But, I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can debate daylight time and still deal with the more serious issues such as you mention.
If the standard time had the buses arriving at 6:30 and the sun was coming up on that spring day at the same time and THEN the following morning daylight savings time was imposed, the sunrise would be at 7:30 and the bus would have arrived an hour earlier, IN THE DARK.
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