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Daylight Savings Is A Scam
The Federalist ^
| 3/11/2024
| Nathan Stone
Posted on 03/11/2024 8:45:15 AM PDT by ducttape45
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To: Alberta's Child
Wow, I can only barely imagine what that’s like for tens-of-thousands of employees worldwide, and having to deal with that stupid crap ‘tradition’. It messes-up many, many people for a week or two, maybe more.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:23:51 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: fwdude
My wife recently retired from over 25 years of police/fire/EMS dispatch. Her organization properly handled the compensation issue. The computer automated dispatch system was less graceful. The officers in the field often became confused around the 2 AM point of the time change. The error was not reporting standard vs saving time attributes on the "incidents". The kerfluffle is only an issue for a couple hours immediately adjacent to the time switch. Sometimes there is NO activity and the event passes with no impact.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:24:25 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: PAR35
"The Kaiser put Daylight Savings Time into effect in an effort to win World War I. It’s a proven failure."
If I remember correctly, Daylight Saving was instituted in the United States during WWII in order to save electricity and the fuel to make it.
To: PAR35
And he stole our word for "twenty"!
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:26:36 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
To: ShadowAce
I agree. The sun should never go down before 5 pm.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:27:07 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: DesertRhino
"I like summer evenings with sun until 9. It’s great.
And I like it getting dark early in the winter and wrapping up my day and lighting a fire.
Best of both worlds."
^This.
Really can't understand why people get so worked up over it. People who travel to a different time zone for more than a couple of days do this all the time.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:28:33 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
To: ducttape45
For a century people didn’t understand DST and said it must be for the farmers.
Now we find out that farmers didn’t like it either.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:28:50 AM PDT
by
x
To: ducttape45
these past few years, anything the govt demands is suspect....things are done for reasons other than "our own good"....
vaxxes...meds...foods...drink...etc etc...
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:32:38 AM PDT
by
cherry
To: ducttape45
Yes...please leave it stay lighter later. I LOATHE darkness at 5:00 PM.
To: SunStar
"Changing the time twice per year is the best situation to maximize light, depending on the season ..." If we are keeping the system as-is, I wish we would go back to when we used to make the time changes. Last Sunday in October. First Sunday in April.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:35:04 AM PDT
by
CatOwner
(Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
To: Robert DeLong
I won’t be showing my response to my wife.
To: ducttape45
Next thing you know the government will be telling us what sort of fuel we must use in our cars.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:36:49 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: ducttape45
We have this same discussion twice a year, we all hate both changes, we all think it is stupid, we all would like it to end. Why then does it go on? Should elimination of such stupidity be immediate simply to show this nation can get at least one thing done and right?
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:37:03 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
To: Carriage Hill
"This DST-ET stuff is in the top 5 of dumbest crap the country does, and TWICE a year!"It would be dumber if it were only done once a year.
To: ducttape45
It takes a lot more than setting a clock an hour different to get my panties in a wad. What a useless thing to worry about. How about the cost of a new transmission in my Suburban? That would be a problem. Time change is like climate change...Nothing to worry about.
To: ducttape45
Pets, and the body cannot be fooled by this twice-a-year illusion. Changing the clocks is stupid.
The only way congress will act on this to eliminate it, is if they’re suddenly convinced that the change is adversely affecting POCS, women, native Americans or LGBTxyz.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:40:17 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
To: ducttape45
I hate always having to change the clocks. When I changed them this time, I dropped my favorite kitchen clock and broke it.
I hate DST. My State shoud be on central time instead of eastern time anyway.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:45:04 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: ducttape45
Had
S.623 - Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 passed both houses of Congress and been signed into law instead of just the Senate in March 2022, none of this would have happened because we would not have changed the clocks last November. However, we would have still changed the designation from Daylight to Standard and it would remain designated as Standard meaning what we once knew as Daylight time would be known as Standard forevermore…until there was enough wailing and gnashing of teeth to reverse it again like we did in the mid-seventies.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:48:10 AM PDT
by
Dahoser
(I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
To: ducttape45
It's a freakin' hour, for heaven's sake! We're not pushing acroo the International Date Line or anything.
Besides, if we didn't go on DST it would start getting light out here at 3:15 a.m. or so during May and June. That's a bit early, doncha think?
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:52:30 AM PDT
by
glennaro
(Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
To: ducttape45
I have said repeatedly that with real freedom so called “Daylight Savings Time” is unnecessary.
The official time does not need to change.
If towns, businesses, schools and others want to adopt a seasonal change in their hours of operation, starting operations earlier or later, as the case may be, by choice, they can do so individually, or collectively and no change of the official time of day is needed.
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posted on
03/11/2024 9:55:06 AM PDT
by
Wuli
(ena)
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