Posted on 03/07/2020 9:00:07 AM PST by SamAdams76
Starting tomorrow, Sunday, March 8, the days will get one hour longer. No more driving home from work in the dark until October. One extra hour of daylight!
This is one of my favorite times of the year and the first true sign that spring is upon us. Now I will have time to sit outside on my patio after work and watch for signs of the coming summer with a beer in my hand and a steak on the grill.
I just want to give thanks to an otherwise horrible president, Lyndon Johnson, who did do one good thing for the U.S. by signing into law the Daylight Savings Act on April 12, 1966 that gave us an extra hour of daylight from last Sunday of April to the last Sunday of October. Now we did have DST well before 1966 - actually Benjamin Franklin first thought of it - but it was mostly during the summer months and different areas of the country had different rules about it.
Since then, future politicians would dick around with the timing, causing the extra hour of daylight to occur nearly two months sooner and extended the end of DST through first Sunday of November.
The latter, I do not like, because it means that on Halloween night, we are still having the longer days. Now growing up during the 1970s, dark would always come earlier on Halloween, effectively extending the trick-or-treating time for the kids. These days, nobody is really able to get out there trick-or-treating until around 7PM which is disturbingly close to bedtime for the little tots out there. I say move the end of DST back to the last Sunday of October so the kids get to stay out in the dark a little longer. Otherwise, I'm fine with having the longer days begin the first week of March.
It also makes sense to have more darkness in the winter months because it's not like anybody is going to be outside working in their tomato garden or sitting on their decks grilling hamburgers in 20 degree weather. Also, I like the extra darkness in winter because the Christmas lights, which pretty much go from mid November to mid January, look much nicer in the dark.
So anyway, this is a very exciting day for most of us. We get to see the sun set for the last time around 5PM. Starting tomorrow, it won't set until around 6PM and by mid-June, we'll be watching the sunset well past 8:30PM as we bat away mosquitoes and pull another cold one from the cooler.
As you can tell, I'm a big, big advocate of Daylight Savings Time and this is like a holiday for me.
How did you know that I was a friend of Samantha!
Small world. Did you see her latest posting?
“What kinda Bernie-Bro-Communist-Gun-Grabbing-Money-Stealing-Ugly-Stupid-Castro-Ass-Kissing degenerate doesn’t love extra daylight every day???”
Ha!
How about we just use DST all year? This is silly to make these changes like robots. The Standard time period we pass through is so short as to be insignificant. Any argument made for standard time is spurious in my view. Long dark winter evenings are not my cup of tea. The argument about it being dark when kids get on the bus is lame. Even here in the mid-south it is dark when the bus comes by.
I wish we would end this silliness and just go on DST all the time and let it be. We will adapt and overcome instead of being on a string contrived by the gooberment.
I would like to see the clocks moved foreword and kept there for good.
No more of this changing the time.it should be kept at standard time.
I always had a hard time with the clock changes and read in a homeopathic book about your internal clock and if you leave your alarm clocks/bedroom clocks set for DST, it won’t interfere with your internal clock.
I did that about 5 years ago and I never have a problem with the time changes.
Let’s compromise.
Move it 30 minutes and leave it there.
That's what India did and you see how messed up that country is? No wonder they always sound so sleepy when they answer my call from one of their call centers!
"Hello! My name is John, how might I ....." ....... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!
Navien NR 20DU, natural gas for the heat set at 115 and electric pump when we want in or when demand kicks in.
We have 4 baths and it can provide heated water to all of the baths at the same time scattered throughout a 2800 square foot home.
It is both on demand, and you can set it up for several times a day to come on, which I do.
How about an extended time cruise ship for retirees called “The Sunshine Ship”
Sail the North in Summer and the South in Winter
So do I. I love it.
FANTASTIC!!!
YOU ARE RIGHT!!
Call Greta and AOC, just do away with DST completely and with one less hour of daylight there should be no more Global Warming!!!!
Yeah... about that....
Oh never mind.
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If we were using Gods time there would be no time zones and every city/town would have their own local time.
How is it God’s time?
LOL, that was my first thought, my car clock will finally be right again.
Ill root for daylight savings time all year long. I hope the Donald makes it permanent. More daylight in the evening is much more conducive to this old dude’s lifestyle. And changing the clock back and forth twice a year is a pain in the butt.
My latest one supposedly grabs the time from radio stations so will be interested to see if it changes tomw.
And I hate finishing a round of golf in the dark.
I defied the time change last fall. Been going to work an hour “early” all winter in order to have daylight left after work. Tomorrow is the payoff.
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