Posted on 03/21/2015 3:29:12 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
States across the country are taking a dim view toward daylight saving time. And some say it's time to turn back the clock -- so to speak.
Lawmakers in 10 states have proposed legislation challenging what, for many, is a twice-a-year headache, and one they just endured again earlier this month. The new bills would mostly have states pick a time ... and stay on that time.
"Every time you have the spring forward or fall back, you get in the coffee shops, churches and everybody's complaining about it and all of a sudden it dawned on me it is kind of a hassle," said Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn, who proposed a bill that would place the entire state of Texas on central standard time year-round.
Beginning in 1966, every state in the country except Arizona and Hawaii started adjusting their clocks under the Uniform Act that permanently established daylight saving time nationwide.
States move their clock back one hour in the fall and one hour ahead in the spring in an effort to "save daylight" with later sunrises and sunsets.
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I hate it. It messes with me a lot. Sorry to see that CO isn’t one of the states considering eliminating it.
Old Indian saying:
“Only the government would think that you could cut a foot off the bottom of a blanket and sew it back on the top and think it would be longer”
Businesses and school districts are free to adjust their operating hours throughout the year as they see fit. No need to monkey with the standard.
My feelings exactly! Pick one, either one and then leave it alone!
...sunrise at 4 AM ...
Not a problem. With DST I only see the sunrise for about a month in June. When we were milking cows we sure like cool early mornings. It was great for farming.
Do you feel the same way about the IRS and taxes 'standard'?
/johnny
Each state should be able to choose.
Just one more place where Congress tries to do something, screws it up, and wants to either continue or more government.
I'm with you, let the states choose what is best for them, and put the federal government back in a tiny, broke, non-meddling box.
/johnny
Absolutely right. The father north, the more the day/night split is. Less reason for DST the farther south.
No one answer fits both States. Except getting the federal government out of it, except to standards setting (maybe). Limited to Art 1, Sec 8, anyway.
/johnny
I don't get to worked up about the sunrise side of the day. My employer has control of my time during those hours. I'm sitting inside with a keyboard and computer monitor.
Berdie,
When I saw your comment about the extra hour of daylight being precious, it went along with what I wanted to say about the needs of gardeners.
Then I just threw in everything else I wanted to say about this topic without thinking that the rest of my remarks didn’t really apply to your comment. My bad.
I've long said that the easiest way to make adjustments for the summer time is to simply change your work/business hours. If I want an "extra hour of daylight" in the evening, I should just change my work schedule accordingly and show up an hour earlier for work.
Interestingly, I believe a lot of the pressure to eliminate DST comes from companies that do business globally. Not every country has Daylight Savings Time, and DST is extremely disruptive for a company like FedEx because it operates on such a tight schedule and can't lose an hour of shipping time without causing a ripple-effect through its whole schedule.
The Florida situation can be resolved by simply having the schools change their hours so that the kids aren’t standing around waiting for a school bus in the dark.
I lived in Canada for a while. In the weeks before and after December 21st the sun was only up for around 7 hours or so. I remember arriving about an hour late for work one morning at about 9 AM ... and it was still dark enough that I needed to drive with my headlights on.
In the weeks before and after June 21st I never saw it dark outside unless I stayed up very late at night. I'd go to bed between 9:30 and 10:00 PM and it was still pretty light out. I'd wake up at 5:00 or 5:30 AM and the sun was already pretty high in the sky.
I live in Arizona many relatives live in Hawaii nice to always know the time we are in. It is difficult to remember the times in New York and Texas where other relatives live. Keep it easy!
I hate it being dark when I go to work and dark when I come home. At least if we kept dst all the time there would be a chance of some light in the evenings!
I've actually found that east-west time issues can be important when you live at the edge of a time zone. This has nothing to do with DST, but it's worth noting that if you live in a place like Fort Wayne, Indiana you are about 650 miles west of New York City. Tomorrow, the sun will rise in New York at 6:56 AM. In Fort Wayne, it will rise at about 7:40. There's almost a 45-minute difference between these two simply because Fort Wayne is so far west in the time zone.
I suspect a lot of the push for DST came from cities that are at the eastern ends of a time zone because the sun sets there "early" compared to the rest of the time zone. Places like New York City, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago are among the big cities that are very far east in their respective time zones.
I just can’t get excited about this. Take it or leave it. It’s certainly not needed in the tropics, where I live, and we don’t have it.
I liked it when I lived in northern latitudes. Could I have done without it, sure. But folks getting their knickers in a twist over it disturbs me. It’s just not worth the anguish.
The bottom line is that it’s not the government that is at the root of this issue, it’s spherical geometry. I would agree this far; it’s not federal issue. This is a state and county issue. And it’s not one right up there at the top of my issues list.
It is an opportunity for me to hammer the federal government and the statists that reflexively support the federal leviathan.
I'm much more interested in Constitutional Carry and those issues, but the solution remains the same: The federal government is a problem, reduce it.
/johnny
It isn't worth it to you (or me, for that matter). But it is to some, and they will be heard.
You getting disturbed because people care about the issue speaks only to you and your mindset.
/johnny
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