I agree with Senator Cotton. We should change the clocks back to Standard Time next week for the last time and be done with it.
It's insane have a hour of light a 5 a.m. in the summer rather than at night.
Almost everyone is up between 4 and 6 p.m. in the winter.
I don't care which time they choose. Just pick one.
“I agree with Senator Cotton. We should change the clocks back to Standard Time next week for the last time and be done with it.”
I completely agree! Having it dark in the winter in the mornings when people are driving to work is much worse than having the sun set an hour later in the summer. I’m retired, so it’s not much of an issue for me personally, but I know the roads would be much less safe on winter mornings if we went to year round DST.
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I agree with Senator Cotton. We should change the clocks back to Standard Time next week for the last time and be done with it.”
NO! Exactly WRONG!
We should make Daylight Savings Time PERMANENT!
It sounds like Cotton (AR) wants to keep the times changing.
Scott (FL) does not.
FL doesn’t matter much - 14 hours of day in the summer, 10 in the winter. They could change to permanent Eastern time if they wanted to. The western panhandle could be permanent central time.
About 40 degrees north (say San Fran to Philly) you get a 15 hour day in the summer, 9 in the winter.
Do you want 6 am - 9 pm in the summer and 9 am to 6 pm in the winter, or how about 5 am -8 pm in the summer and then 8 am - 5 pm in the winter?
About 48 degrees north (roughly CONUS-Canada) you get a 16 hour day in the summer, 8 in the winter.
Ketchikan AK - 19.5 hour days in the summer; 4.5 hour days in the winter.
Point Barrow AK - up all day in summer; down all day in winter.
The northernmost point of Arizona is north of the northernmost point of Arkansas, but most of the population of Arizona is south of 34 degrees N.