It is insane that we weren’t able to shake this decades ago.
I’ve considered daylight savings time to be our culture’s “vestigial organ” for decades.
Twice a year these people come out and complain about DST.
If they succeed in getting rid of it, there will emerge another set of people complaining about their kids having to go to school in the dark. I suppose that’ll create pressure to do away with set hours for the school day, and other forms of group activity.
Probably the people agitating to bring it back will mostly be the same people who agitated to get rid of it.
My daughter lives in Maine. We visited her in the winter last year. Pitch black at 3:45pm until 8:30am. And 10 degrees! We were ready for bed at 7:00.
We bought her a “happy” light designed to keep people from going insane. They actually work.
Daylight savings time is like cutting the ends off the christmas ham before it goes in the oven. We do it because we’ve always done it, because that’s what great grandma did.
And she did it because those old ovens were too small to fit a full ham. 🤣
If we stop it now all the computers will crash! We will be doomed!
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(if you don't recognize sarcasm then shame on you!)
I don’t participate. When the clocks go back I go back. I wake up at 6 instead of 7. Sleep at 10 instead of 11. Take all my meals one hour earlier.
As I’ve gotten older, my body just does not adjust well to the time change.
I don’t participate. When the clocks go back I go back. I wake up at 6 instead of 7. Sleep at 10 instead of 11. Take all my meals one hour earlier.
As I’ve gotten older, my body just does not adjust well to the time change.
I thought it was about making war. Changing the clocks gave armies an extra hour to kill each other.
I thought it was about making war. Changing the clocks gave armies an extra hour to kill each other.
An interesting article.
‘Fall back’ no more? Where all 50 states stand on making daylight saving time permanent
All my life, I have looked forward to having that extra hour of daylight during the warm months so that I could get home from work, slap a steak on the grill, crack a beer and sit on my back deck with plenty of daylight left to go before darkness and mosquitoes set in.
Doing away with that extra hour of daylight because it is inconvenient for a few old cranks to move a few clocks back and forth twice a year will be a kick in the stomach to all the working people who keep this world running for everybody else.
Now it is time to give that extra hour of daylight back as we move into the darker, colder winter months because the OTHER side of the day is now plunged in darkness and those same working people have to get up in the morning for work and fumble for light switches and stumble out to their cars in the icy, cold darkness to defrost their windshields. So having that daylight moved back to morning in winter helps the working people as well as the dim, low sun at least has a fighting chance to attack those windshields as we are frying our eggs and drinking our black coffee indoors.
It's dark when we get home but it's too cold to do anything outdoors anyway this time of year.
So let's keep that Daylight Savings time going for all the working people out there who work hard to keep the lights on for all the rest of us. Surely the moving around of a few clocks twice a year cannot be that bad of an inconvenience.
If a politician were to run on ONE issue of eliminating DST they could be elected Ruler Of The Universe.
I like Daylight Savings. Where I live the sun would be bright in the sky at 4AM in May/June/July without it. I’d much rather have daylight be from 5AM to 8PM than 4AM to 7PM.
Put an end to drive end theaters....never forgave the politicians for it!!!
Daylight savings is white supremacy and disproportionately affects women and minorities.
Having lived in Arizona most of my life and then moving to Indiana, I can say from an outsiders perspective that DST is soul sucking, one of the worst things about Indiana, and a very good reason to move back amongst other reasons or on its own.
Even though my wife has been retired from being an RN for 10 + years, she semi goes into orbit each fall worrying about our clocks, getting to church and other stuff due to the time change.
I refuse to create an unnecessary panic.
We got to church now via a delayed video recording when we want to watch it.
Then, we make zero appointments for the week after the change until mid afternoon. We go to bed, when we are ready and get up on our own time. We reset the clocks on the first or second afternoon after the time change.
Being retired, we can wake up, when we want to and go to bed whenever we feel like it. The few tv shows, we watch can be watched whenever we decide and not the nets’ schedules.