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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I took an hour nap yesterday afternoon and don’t even know what year it is.
I remember Nixon’s executive order for year round DST. The sun came up at 8:45 in January.
Only a liberal can take 12” off the bottom of the blanket and sew it to the top of the blanket and think he has a longer blanket.
The sun determines the time of day. Directly overhead is noon.
Daylight savings time messes up the entire system and should be abandoned. It serves no purpose.
My cat thinks we’re still on DST, she tried to wake me up at 3:00 this morning......
Stop changing the clock twice a year.I just read here (FR) recently that someone described it ---
It is either pointless or pernicious.
12 off the bottom of the blanket...
Dang, you beat me by a mile... ;-)
Of course, school should be abolished.
You know, I always thought how arrogant it was of Our Government to pass some silly law changing the TIME at the whim of the calendar.
I’d have a little more Reality and less Government if I might.
Yes, I’d appreciate being able to see the deer right up to the actual ending time of the day’s hunt.
Two Republicans? Then we know it was intelligently thought out. Astonishing how the Left gets everything wrong!
Out of the mouth of babes: I asked my 8 year old granddaughter what she thought about sunset at 4:30pm... She said “Grandpa, the sun comes up in the morning, it’s light during the day, the sun sets in the evening, and it’s dark at night. Isn’t 4:30 in the afternoon still day time”? Yes it is honey. “Well then I think the sun should go down in the evening.” So do I honey, so do I. I think this about puts a wrap on this discussion,
No!
Nor now not ever.
Im putting Daylight savings time CORRECTION measure on the CA BALLOT when there are enough signatures
We have internal clocks. Pretending that trying to adjust to a SUDDEN time shift is painless just wont sell.
Travelers have to deal with jet lag.
People in general should not have to be FORCED to deal with the capricious reframing of the time of day.
Those insisting on more daylight hours after they get off work...START TO WORK EARLIER.
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