Posted on 11/02/2019 1:47:53 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Um, no, days will stay the same length, 24 hours. The daylight hours will only be shorter until the winter solstice on December 22. They will then get longer.
I live in NE and do not like it getting dark at about 4PM, thank you. I would rather DST be year around in this longitude.
I work in construction, so the length of day is going to make little difference.
See? it is so simple.
And how much more up North. Here sunset is 4:11 pm Dec. 4...
Since our all powerful government is able to make days longer or shorter by enacting legislation, would not it be of equal or greater benefit to enact legislation changing the temperature to make it warmer during the winter and cooler during the summer.
Then, If we had DST year round, people would complain the kids are going to school in the morning in the dark. There are pros and cons on both sides depending on which side people choose to be on in this debate.
I really want to know if it saves energy, which was one key justification for it originally.
Pick one and stay with it. No more moving clock dials back or pushing buttons.
I don’t know if you’re serious or trying to be ironic.
I’m retired. I don’t care what the clock says. If someone somehow can find a way to give me more sunshine, I’m interested.
However, I do like how I get more sunshine in the kitchen during the winter...when the sun shines, that is.
I wish they’d either eliminate DST or adopt it year round. I despise the changing of the clocks.
So government flexes its muscle and forces a change in time and the people in our country say, how much?
It doesn’t:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/daylight-saving-time-isnt-worth-the-energy-2017-11-02
In Indiana, residential electricity use actually rose after most of the state adopted daylight saving time
Adding and taking away that extra hour has to have a heavy impact on glowbull warming.
The earliest the sun sets around here is about 4:20 pm. On or around December 13, sunset ticks one minute later, but the days continue to get shorter because sunrise is still getting later. By December 31, sunset is back to 4:30pm. By about the end of the first week of January, the days actually start getting longer again minute by minute.
Still changing clocks here in Florida. Uck.
The day gets shorter until the Winter Solstice, Dec 21st.
THEN, they start getting longer until the Summer Solstice, June 21.
The solution to global warming is to remark our thermometers.
We were just counting the number of clocks we need to change. 12 plus the two cars. The one clock is one of those chime clocks which reduce my husband to cussing rages twice a year.
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