Posted on 11/03/2013 8:37:40 PM PST by sfwarrior
Extend daylight savings time for the entire year. More useful light in the day and less energy use. Daylight savings time was instituted by congress in 1918 to make better use of daylight hours to benefit the economy and to save energy by having daylight hours during the most productive time of the day. Standard time, when the clocks go back an hour, begins in the first Sunday of November and serves no purpose. Standard time simply means early morning hours are in daylight, however sunset and darkness greet Americans at or about 5pm.
Americans would much prefer to have daylight hours to extend daylight later in the day which will permit more family oriented after-work activities to be enjoyed: daylight for playing outside with the kids, gardening, biking, running etc.
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Get up earlier and leave the rest of us alone.
Would it work to just split the difference, and then leave it? I hate this crap. They say this change causes more heart attack fatalities, so why even risk it? People want a risk-free world, right? ;)
If people want to arrive at work at 8 AM, they will do so. If they want to knock off at 4 PM, they will do so. If they want to eat lunch at 11 AM, they will do so. Trick them into doing it by making DST year-round? The disadvantages of leaving the house before dawn will cause people to alter their schedules.
Besides: So-called DST means children and others are out on the streets in the dark in the morning. When Nixon increased the portion of the year for DST, there were more kids killed by cars in the mornings.
AMEN!
I'm just about ready to plant my winter tomatoes. < /sarc>
Between now and March the question on EDT vs. EST is whether I drive home in twilight or in the dark and whether I drive into work in twilight or just after sunrise. Either way I'm not getting anything useful done on either end of the day.
On the other hand I love DST in the summer with sunset after 9 pm.
I like the way we do DST in Arizona. We just change the batteries in our smoke detectors. Done. LOL!
I wasn't a big fan of walking to school in the dark..
No! Extend standard time year around.
You don't want the sun overhead at noon and on the horizon at 6:00PM?
You'd rather it be overhead at 1:00PM and set at 7:00PM?
-PJ
No no no. We should do away with daylight saving completely. It’s not good to have darkness until nearly 8 o’clock in the AM. Kids going to school in the dark, dragging yourself out of bed in the dark...No No No! Daylight Saving time should be from the Sunday following the Spring Equinox to the Sunday following the Autumn Equinox. Better yet, do away with DST altogether.
Stop changing the clock twice a year.
It is either pointless or pernicious.
Either way, it is a sick farce that has gone on WAY too long in an nation where everyone has electricity.
Yes.
If you are worried about children in the morning then leave standard time all year long. How about that?
Russia went to all daylight savings time in 2011. Just saw an article about it.
AS General Patton said: “Nuts!”
That was General Anthony Clement, not Patton.
Yes!!
Getting up an hour earlier is for the birds.
The benefits of DST are at best negligible. Let’s just keep standard time. BTW, the driving Congressional force behind tacking ANOTHER week on to DST in 2006 were two Republicans.
An hour earlier than what?
Besides... the early birds can still get the worms on a half hour permanent time correction.
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