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Tired of daylight saving time, lawmakers look to 'lock the clock' *about time*
Tribune News Service ^
| 4/16/2017
| Jen Fifield
Posted on 04/16/2017 7:10:55 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The movement to "lock the clock" is growing as more research indicates that the biannual ritual of changing the time is not only annoying to some but harmful to public health, productivity and safety. This year, about half of states have considered or are considering time-related bills.
Bills to abolish daylight saving time have been introduced for years, and have always faced opposition, including from sport and retail industries that say the extra hour of evening sun in the summer brings them more business.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: moredstplease; sensible; sunsunsun
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To: sodpoodle
This is an idea that is long over due. As for Washington. My side of the state is already a half hour ahead of Seattle in the earths rotation. So what's another half? ;-)
Ed
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posted on
04/16/2017 8:57:37 AM PDT
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: Locomotive Breath
But I hate hate hate hate driving home from work in the dark.
Yup.
To: dfwgator
Year-round DST was referred to as War Time during WWI and WWII. Would also help explain why so many heavy industry and assembly plants were constructed with glass walls during those times.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:03:58 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: rellimpank
There is nothing *new* about fake news.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:05:58 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: marktwain
Knowing Old Ben he probably is laughing at us.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:07:01 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
To: sodpoodle
Yay!
66
posted on
04/16/2017 9:07:26 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Viriycho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
To: sodpoodle
We need to convert to the metric clock!
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:07:48 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
To: deweyfrank
I like the extra hour in the evening.You don't have an "extra hour in the evening." You get up one hour earlier.
Please feel free to continue to do so, but kindly leave the rest of us alone.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:09:05 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Viriycho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
To: dfwgator
Interesting tid-bit.
The NHL eliminated “overtime” for regular season games that ended in ties after 60 minutes of play. Since the games were played mainly at night, the League wanted fans to be able to get home at a decent hour so they could perform at their war time jobs next day.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:12:29 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: sheana
Same here.
Who cares if it’s dark in the morning.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:15:09 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: sodpoodle
One of the many excuses was farm workers, but farm workers don’t care, they go to work when the sun rises. Then they said it conserves energy, but it doesn’t. When you get right down to it the only reason DST exists is to remind you who’s boss. The government says “change your clock” you change your clock.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:17:43 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
To: Kozy
Without daylight savings, climate change will happen one hour sooner, the end of the world one hour sooner and just do it for the children. That extra hour of sunlight is contributing to global warming!
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:18:22 AM PDT
by
Smittie
(Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
To: Williams
Daylight savings makes it darker in the morning.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:18:36 AM PDT
by
moonhawk
(My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
To: sodpoodle
During the Carter-years it was expaned with the argument that ‘we are saving energy’.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:19:03 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: sodpoodle
With these long hot Texas summer days, should’nt we want the sun to go down? In July and August it doesn’t get dark until 9:00 PM. Doesn’t make sense.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:25:37 AM PDT
by
38special
(For real, y'all.)
To: Bigg Red; DennisR
I think you guys are right.
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:31:41 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Williams
Any child walking to school north of the California/Oregon border is walking in the dark in the winter anyway! For some (ie Alaskans), it’s dark BOTH to and from school!
That whole premise is the definition of a red herring.
“It’s fo’ da CHILLUNS!”
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:35:08 AM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
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posted on
04/16/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT
by
deweyfrank
(Nobody's Perfect)
To: sodpoodle
Split the difference. Spring forward 30 minutes and be done with it.
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posted on
04/16/2017 10:38:18 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Vaquero
The cats have more time to do stuff, too. I’m up late trying to get them in the summer.
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posted on
04/16/2017 10:41:46 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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