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To: NOBO2012

One advantage of DST is of efficiency. Many societal activities would, without DST, make their own choices to shift that activity by an hour according to daylight. DST allows one central time switch decision, freeing all those societal activities from having to make the change decision.

I don’t know of any activity that finds the need to cancel DST and undoing it by springing backward and falling forward.

One example: we have a local sound of bugle’s event for veterans late in the day on the 1st Sunday of the month. The time for that can be fixed across the year, rather than adjusted seasonally.


8 posted on 11/04/2018 5:20:41 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: C210N

I agree.

Yes it would be simpler to keep one time year round, but we do things that need light at different times at different times of the year.

Last week I was driving my Son to school in darkness. The driving is somewhat stressful on rural roads with the out of control deer population and the rut on and bow season right now. This week the Sun will be up and it should be nicer.

While pretty early in the spring after DST he plays baseball in the evenings on weekdays. It would be logistically hard to play these games without DST.


37 posted on 11/04/2018 6:32:39 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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