Posted on 03/19/2016 9:49:29 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
why are we embracing DST? Wouldn't following nature's biological clock be more beneficial to our wellbeing?
As my body struggles each spring to cope with the Daylight Savings Time (DST), I wonder if it is beneficial to humans and what effect does it have, if any on loss of productivity due to sleep deprivation, on health, and potential accidents. Who decided first that it was a good idea to turn clocks forward one hour in spring and wind them back in the fall? Did it save significant amounts of energy and thus money?
At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March until 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November, all states except Arizona, Hawaii, and territories, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands observe DST. Seventy other nations around the world also follow DST.
I just realized this week that my dog has trouble with daylight savings time. He gets so many clues from when things happen.
Here in Arizony, we don’t hold with no ideas of that crazy Ben Franklin. (Except for the post office, electricity, bifocals and stuff like that. And America. We like that.)
Exactly who wants Daylight Savings Time to continue? Over the last decade, just about everyone I know....wants it terminated.
There is no reason for it. Not one little bit. Change the school hours...or the factory hours. To change the clock is stupid.
If Trump would promise to abolish DST, he will win in a landslide.
Apparently I am in the minority, but I really really like the sun being up until 9 or 10 at night. I like being able to hang out in the backyard in the light, or even better yet have time to 4 wheel in the hills for a few hours after work...to me going to work in the dark, then coming home in the dark is depressing as hell.
Yup, Trump will abolish DST and make the Sun pay for it!
What we need is Local Noon Based Time(LNBT) this time would be locally computer generated based on when high noon is at your physical local location. Your day would be exactly the hours between sunrise and sunset. Just like it used to be for centuries. Anything requiring a schedule or coordination, class times, work meetings, conferences would all use GMT. No confusing time zones to worry about. We might need some new nomenclature for global coordintion but the old standards : morning, afternoon, evening and night should still suffice.
Does anybody really KNOW what time it is?
If it weren’t for trying to schedule phone conferences, trucking, deliveries and such that might make sense. As it stands, it would be pure chaos to shift back to purely local time.
Everybody should get two hours of daylight before having to clock in and get to leave two hours before dusk. Summer workdays might be ten hours, but winter workdays would be cozily short. Same rules for schools.
Could be a way to attract and keep good employees, students etc. Give them an LNBT/GMT app (with a wakeup smart rise alarm) and explain the policy, see how it works out.
Any non-local scheduleing would be done in GMT. I agree it would be chaos but so is DST.
I don’t care, DST or non-DST. Pick a damn time, and stick with it. This changing forward and back is absolutely nuts. Back when our country was larely agricultural based, and our farm machinery didn’t have built-in headlights, this made sense.
But, as most harvesting machinery has more than adequate power to run multiple floodlights, and the number of people who perform this labor is now a microscopic minority - let’s either stay on DST year around, or abandon it all together.
However, being a States Rights proponent; this should be handled by independant States, not driven down by the Federal Government.
Yeah, but the REAL PROBLEM is the leap year!
The earth is simply spinning too fast. We need to slow it down.
SLOW GLOBAL SPINNING!
Restore balance to the 365 day year.
It would average out to 40hrs minimum over a year and time to shop before and after. Safer for traffic and kids, too.
Luckily I'm retired, but I would have been griping about that extra day this year. Not only was it a work day, but it was a Monday.
Yeah, usually unpaid too, if you are salary.
Slowly the earth steals(about one second a day) our time then BAM all at once we have to make up 24 hours all at once.
Wadda lousy deal.
We should start a movement to slow the earth down and get unsuspecting taxpayers to fund it.
Based on 2080 hours of work per year only 24% of the time being made up happened during working hours. Based on that criteria when Feb 29th falls on a workday it should be limited to 5 hours and 45 minutes.
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