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Bills to end daylight saving time change could end insulin pump glitch
Healio ^ | 10/29/20 | Saleh Aladasouqi, MD

Posted on 10/29/2020 1:57:25 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

This Sunday, Nov. 2, will mark the end of daylight saving time for 2020.

I am pleased to share that, finally, serious legislative considerations — in several states — are underway in the quest to end the biannual rituals of changing from standard time to daylight saving time (DST). During the last 3 years, 13 states enacted legislation to provide for year-round daylight saving time if Congress were to allow such a change and, in some cases, if surrounding states would enact the same legislation, according to the website of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Full-time DST is not currently allowed by federal law and would require an act of Congress to make a change.

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KEYWORDS: dst; insulin; time
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To: Pining_4_TX

When Windows 95 came out, the first version had a logical flaw in its DST algorithm.

It seemed so simple. If the computer was set for a time zone with DST the clock would simply move backwards one hour when it hit 2 AM. What the programmers forgot to do was to set a flag to tell Windows that the clock had already been changed. So, at 2 AM, the clock went back one hour to 1 AM. An hour later, it would hit 2 AM AGAIN, and dutifully go back one hour to 1:00 AM. By the time the poor computer owner got up and checked his PC, he would find his computer stuck somewhere between 1 AM and 2 AM if he had left it on the whole time.


21 posted on 10/29/2020 2:21:03 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

That’s funny.


22 posted on 10/29/2020 2:21:56 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Nov. 2nd is Monday. Are they screwing with the turnout on election day?
23 posted on 10/29/2020 2:22:38 PM PDT by Company Man (THEDONALD.WIN is the #1 site in support of our President! Visit today! THEDONALD.WIN)
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To: Pining_4_TX

God’s rainbow has 7 colors, that other one has 6.

By definition noon for any particular spot on earth is when the sun is at it’s highest when on your meridian. It’s called Local Apparent Noon (LAN)

Time zones were created so people near you are on the same time and each zone is one hour, comprising 24 hours to make one day.

Get up earlier and go to bed earlier.


24 posted on 10/29/2020 2:23:10 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Portland Voted for IT)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Well, for those of you living in little houses on little bitty yard, it doesn’t matter to you. For those of us who are land owners and have to our land AFTER working an 8+ hour day....daylight savings time is an extreme necessity. If it goes back it will suck for myself and all the farmers around here who have jobs to support their families since farming doesn’t do it any longer.


25 posted on 10/29/2020 2:24:52 PM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: sevinufnine

Then leave it on DST. Just stop changing it! It affects people’s health and productivity.


26 posted on 10/29/2020 2:26:10 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Now, here in TN, when it gets uncomfortably cold out, I’ll say, “Global Warming, where are you when e]we need you.” However, back in 1987, when I was living in the Milwaukee, WI area and getting ready for cross country skiing in the Winter, I’d be looking forward to the bright, clear. cold (about 10 deg. f.) days that were the best of all for a good day out on the trail.


27 posted on 10/29/2020 2:26:11 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Pining_4_TX

Interesting point to consider: two of my grandchildren and two of my nephews work for Fedex, and Amazon.
They all agree having the sun set later in the evening makes their job easier, especially as daylight wans in the winter, because they can see house numbers better as they complete their deliveries.
That hour of daylight in the summer months allows people to luxury of talking a walk after dinner, or mowing the lawn before sunset, and still having a bit of daylight to sit outside and enjoy.


28 posted on 10/29/2020 2:27:27 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: libstripper

Ha! I’m getting to be like the old lady in the SNL skit about Alexa for seniors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk&t=25s


29 posted on 10/29/2020 2:28:50 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: bhive

To me, it is actually helpful to have the extra daylight in the evenings, during the part of the year that yard work must be done. Getting home from work after 5:30, and needing at least an hour to mow, it is easier with later sunset. And I also get why they want to have some daylight in the mornings, when kids are being picked up by the school buses.

To me, these are both advantages to keeping the status quo.


30 posted on 10/29/2020 2:30:10 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Pining_4_TX

Datetimes and time zones are tricky enough in software. But adding daylight savings on top is just pure evil. The one good thing the UN could do is agree to a worldwide standard of making every area of the globe have a fixed offset from UTC that never changes. Would make the advancement of bug free tech easier.


31 posted on 10/29/2020 2:30:11 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Pining_4_TX

They are not proposing to end Daylight Savings Time, but forever abolishing Standard Time. I say eliminate DST and stop all this nonsense.


32 posted on 10/29/2020 2:30:25 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Pining_4_TX

If this is the thing that puts an end to this foolishness, great


33 posted on 10/29/2020 2:30:26 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( Beginning my 20th year on FR! 2,500+ replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Amen! Whatever works.


34 posted on 10/29/2020 2:31:21 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Does Covid know we are changing time this Sunday? according to the Democrat Governors, bars and restaurants must close at 10:00 to stop the spread.

But have these Governors told the Virus about us Falling Back an Hour?


35 posted on 10/29/2020 2:31:33 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: PROCON
Nowadays DST has gone the way of the buggy whip.

Nope, if you got rid of DST Moms would be pissed they could no longer take their kids to the playground after work.

Not to mention Storekeepers, longer daylight at night means more shoppers.

36 posted on 10/29/2020 2:31:40 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Pining_4_TX

The government is saying that we’re cutting a foot off the top of your blanket and sewing on the bottom so you’d have a longer blanket; liberal logic.


37 posted on 10/29/2020 2:32:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Pining_4_TX
This Sunday, Nov. 21

Get your head out of your ass Selah.

38 posted on 10/29/2020 2:33:32 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EC Washington

Aha! That would be a great letter to write to these governors. Some of them are so dumb, they would think about it.


39 posted on 10/29/2020 2:33:49 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: mylife

Are you an accountant? That’s the kind of comment my husband would make. ;-)


40 posted on 10/29/2020 2:35:02 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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