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Sun setting on daylight saving time? States consider alternative to clock-changing ‘hassle’
Fox News ^ | 3-21-15 | Matt Finn

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2good2betrue; clocks; daylightsavings; lovesunlight; timechange
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To: Oliviaforever

Not if you have real clocks rather then a computer chip run item.


41 posted on 03/21/2015 4:05:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Cicero

Most kids these days struggle to read a regular non digital clock as it is.

My sister’s kids have never forgiven me for buying their mom a kitchen clock that doesn’t have numbers on it.


42 posted on 03/21/2015 4:06:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Get rid of two time zones while we’re at it as well. Just have Eastern and Western time zones.”

Umm, how about we just have one time zone? CST.


43 posted on 03/21/2015 4:09:22 PM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I ignore clocks all the time when I’m at home. :) None of my clocks reflect the “correct” time except for the one that summons me to work. That could be why the time change isn’t a big deal to me. The lack of daylight when I get away from the confines of work (where time IS observed) is an issue.


44 posted on 03/21/2015 4:09:48 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Mears

“I have always hated DST.”

Tell me about it. Man, back in the day, when playing HS football, I thought two-a-days would never end, ugh :)


45 posted on 03/21/2015 4:12:39 PM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: goldstategop

The time change gives me jet lag that takes me two weeks to recover from.

We should just pass a law to require that sunrise and sunset must be at 6am and 6pm every day, like countries along the equator.


46 posted on 03/21/2015 4:12:40 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Falling back” in a house with a hungry cat is not acceptable. We’ve learned to keep her on kitty time year-round.


47 posted on 03/21/2015 4:12:41 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: cripplecreek

My kitchen clock has all of the numbers jumbled at the bottom. Across the middle is written..”Whatever”.


49 posted on 03/21/2015 4:12:56 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie

I love clocks. I keep many of them on DST.


50 posted on 03/21/2015 4:14:09 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I agree with the complaints, but I think it’s a petty issue when there’s an anus orifice in the White House whom along with his political party is destroying this country.

Perhaps we could find some way to fire his ass, and take up the small stuff later.


51 posted on 03/21/2015 4:14:29 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: berdie
The lack of daylight when I get away from the confines of work (where time IS observed) is an issue.

Does sunlight after you leave work require a twice a year change? Or can the changes stop and you still get the daylight you seek with a fixed time that doesn't change twice a year?

/johnny

52 posted on 03/21/2015 4:14:43 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: cripplecreek

Send them sliderules for their birthdays. Circular ones if you can find them.


53 posted on 03/21/2015 4:15:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Florida tried leaving the time at DST one year.

It was a problem because in the winter school kids were walking to their bus stops and standing around waiting for their buses in the dark.

There were some serious accidents so the experiment only lasted one winter.


54 posted on 03/21/2015 4:15:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro
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To: cripplecreek

My wristwatch has Roman Numerals. I wonder what kids would make of that?


55 posted on 03/21/2015 4:16:17 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

PLEEEASSSE end it!!! I STILL feel like I’m missing that hour every day.


56 posted on 03/21/2015 4:17:48 PM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I was Tuba City Arizona last Summer and one side of the main street is on the Navajo reservation, while the other side is on the Hopi reservation. The Navajos observe daylight savings time, but the Hopis don’t, or maybe it’s the other way around. Our hotel was on one side, and many of the stores and restaurants were on the other. This lead to all sorts of confusion about when businesses closed, when events were taking place, and what time you were actually making a dinner reservation for. Even if you stayed on one side of the street, you could not be sure that the time someone gave you, or the time you read somewhere for something was one hour early or one hour late.


57 posted on 03/21/2015 4:17:52 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Repeal The 17th

The clocks, being imperfect, gain or loose time on their own...


58 posted on 03/21/2015 4:18:28 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The new bills would mostly have states pick a time ... and stay on that time.

That would continue to cause problems when crossing state lines, if multiple states had different times.

All states in the 4 major times zones should stay on DST year-round. That way, they get the benefits of longer summer evenings.
59 posted on 03/21/2015 4:19:15 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Contrary to what has been posted earlier in the thread, the imposition of DST had little to do with convenience and much more to do with energy savings during wartime. It started under Wilson, was repealed after the war, then was reinstituted under FDR. The idea was that, with more work hours under daylight, less power would be needed for lighting, leaving more resources for the war.

Considering how small a fraction of our present power generation goes to lighting, there’s really no reason to keep DST except for the convenience of those who have chosen poor geographic locations to live with respect to their available daylight. Considering the disruption to sleep cycles, DST has long outlived its usefulness.


60 posted on 03/21/2015 4:23:21 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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