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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i mean, we could eliminate DST, and then also adjust our work days to start earlier, and we could go to bed earlier.
The point is that we have reached an era where having light later into the evening is more important than having light at 6am.
Nursing moms don’t like DST at all.
No Maam, excuse my french.
THANK YOU! It drives me nuts that people think that by adjusting to daylight time means more sunlit hours.
Even having the turkey as our national bird?
My cat hates the time changes. His feeding clock stays the same.
“Now my grandfather was a dairy farmer and he hated DST and called it a communist invention, but never the less, I like it the way it is.”
So you’re a Communist? Your Grandpa was right.
In the Fall, the early sunsets are usually quite pretty...but then a blanket of darkness sets in and doesn’t let up until 8am the next morning.
I can survive the winter months with lots of snow and outdoor activities such as snowmobiling and snowshoeing, and it can be as cold as it likes - as long as the sun is out! ;)
Greetings from Texas.
I prefer standard time too, which is how God created it.
Year-round daylight savings time was tried during the fuel shortage brought on by the Arab oil embargo following the Yom Kippur War, but it was unpopular—people didn’t like to get up and go to work in pitch dark. And besides, it was dangerous. In Florida, a school bus ran over several kids that the driver didn’t see because of the darkness. The scheme was soon abandoned.
If we have a single year-round time, it should be standard time.
As far as I’m concerned, I do NOT one more hour of 2020!!
It messes up people who travel from DST states to +hour states - like me when I fly. The daylight hours in the northern states is longer but the closer you get to the equator it doesn’t make much difference.
I see your point in Iowa. But in the southern states, there is less of a difference in daylight in summer vs winter.
I believe we should stay at standard time. Every six months I lose an hour of sleep with the spring forward idiocy.
Besides, the sun will come up and go down no matter what time it is.
Isaac Newton liked the number 7.
I might think moderns might prefer 8, putting Cyan between Green and Blue.
I assume Indigo is gone?
Why adjust a single hour at a time when you can cram in 24 years worth of DST in one day.
Or maybe Pope Francis is sick of the Gregorian Calendar and wants a Franciscan Calendar.
“Nov. 2nd is Monday. Are they screwing with the turnout on election day?” Only if they are deliberately targeting women and minorities who are always hardest hit
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