Posted on 10/28/2015 12:17:14 PM PDT by MichCapCon
When I went to Hillsdale, one of the popular radio stations was WOWO out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Indiana doesn’t do DST, so you’d get time checks that sound like this:
“It’s 7 o’clock. It’s 8 o’clock in Ohio and Michigan.”
Michigan is towards the Western end of the Eastern time zone, so this might make sense.
Think of all the alarm clocks and computers that will be so confused...: >)
Yeah, that’s the problem in Michigan. Daylight Saving Time.
I think the last sentence sums it up.
If this is the only obstacle you have , then yeah, count your blessings.
got to tell you i always thought DSL was dumb but now that my daughter is in middle school and catches the bus at 7:15AM EST i have a change of heart..
My problem with the hour change thingy is it is done because they say “Because we can.”
Quit changing the dam clocks.
I’ve read that daylight savings time goes back to Ben Franklin,to save candle wax.
Adding an hour much of the year has got to impact globull warming. /s
Pick a damn time and stick with it. If you want more daytime after work in the summer, lobby businesses to go to summer hours.
You not adjusting the sun, nothing changes there. Just leave the damn clocks alone.
Looking at a map, most of Michigan should be in the Central time zone anyway. Heck, during the summer up North, it doesn’t get dark until after 10 pm.
The sun would have been up an hour longer this morning prior to your daughter getting on the bus if we weren't on daylight savings time right now. So, if it's just now only daylight at, say, 7 AM, it will be daylight at 6 AM come Sunday (minus a few minutes for the shorter day overall moving closer to the Winter Solstice).
All we do when we turn back / forward clocks is substitute daylight in the evening for daylight in the morning.
Evening daylight is preferred by just about everyone.
Keep “Savings” time all year round as some states and cities are already doing.
Protect our evening daylight.
Lincoln Chaffee should have used this as a campaign issue.
Citizens started down the road to Big Government serfdom when they allowed lobbyists for restaurants and golf courses to pay their Congressmen to fool with the clock so they could pad their pocketbooks. Children suffer when they have to go to school in the dark just so some selfish adults can golf after work.
When do you want daylight? More of it in the morning or more of it in the evening? Me I would have sunset at 10:00 pm every day. That is impractical of course but I like having daylight after work until bedtime.
I am well acquainted with the school kids and farmer logic. Having been one a kid in a rural backwater and two worked in early start jobs such as construction and manufacturing and three having raised three kids, I still like daylight in the evening.
I have two kids one who lives on the back edge of EST and another who lives on the front edge of CST. The one in CST hates it. Like living on the front edge of anytime zone it is almost dark at 4:00pm in the winter and that just plain stinks.
Ditto..in spades
Living in 1 of the 4 counties in the UP of Michigan at 4:00 the county, state and city offices close as the eastern standard time is 5:00. It sucks when going to one of the offices because at 4:00 everything is closed. Except if you golf, the golf course is open and the DPW workers quit at 3:30 so they can leave at 4:00. Daylight savings time is a waste!
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