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extend Daylight Savings Time Year Around.
We the People ^ | Nov. 3rd, 2013 | Adam Sparks

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: daylightsavings; economy; energy
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We want daylight hours in the early evening when we can use them, not in the early morning! Let's get it changed, sign the petition.
1 posted on 11/03/2013 8:37:40 PM PST by sfwarrior
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To: sfwarrior

Get up earlier and leave the rest of us alone.


2 posted on 11/03/2013 8:44:07 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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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? ;)


3 posted on 11/03/2013 8:45:10 PM PST by Thorliveshere (I wish I lived in Texas.)
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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.


4 posted on 11/03/2013 8:45:26 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: sfwarrior

AMEN!


5 posted on 11/03/2013 8:46:44 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: sfwarrior
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.

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.

6 posted on 11/03/2013 8:47:49 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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I like the way we do DST in Arizona. We just change the batteries in our smoke detectors. Done. LOL!


7 posted on 11/03/2013 8:49:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (From a Nation of Laws to a Nation of Lies in just one election. Amazing.)
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To: Arthur McGowan
When Nixon increased the portion of the year for DST, there were more kids killed by cars in the mornings.

I wasn't a big fan of walking to school in the dark..

8 posted on 11/03/2013 8:50:56 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
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To: sfwarrior

No! Extend standard time year around.


9 posted on 11/03/2013 8:51:44 PM PST by cynwoody
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DST all year round?

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

10 posted on 11/03/2013 8:51:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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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.


11 posted on 11/03/2013 8:52:34 PM PST by lardog ( Obama should be locked up.)
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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.


12 posted on 11/03/2013 8:55:06 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Thorliveshere
split the difference, and then leave it?

Yes.

13 posted on 11/03/2013 8:55:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

If you are worried about children in the morning then leave standard time all year long. How about that?


14 posted on 11/03/2013 8:56:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: sfwarrior

Russia went to all daylight savings time in 2011. Just saw an article about it.


15 posted on 11/03/2013 8:57:03 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: sfwarrior

AS General Patton said: “Nuts!”


16 posted on 11/03/2013 8:57:20 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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That was General Anthony Clement, not Patton.


17 posted on 11/03/2013 8:58:57 PM PST by Loud Mime (Liberal: greedy person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
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To: BenLurkin
. . . leave standard time all year long. How about that?

Yes!!

Getting up an hour earlier is for the birds.

18 posted on 11/03/2013 9:02:58 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: sfwarrior

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.


19 posted on 11/03/2013 9:04:45 PM PST by Constitutionalist 91787
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To: Jess Kitting

An hour earlier than what?

Besides... the early birds can still get the worms on a half hour permanent time correction.


20 posted on 11/03/2013 9:05:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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