I would prefer standard time. The sun should be on the central meridian at noon. But if you can drop one of the colors out of the rainbow you might as well mess with time also.
This is the only bad idea Benjamin Franklin had. It was a stupid idea at best. Everything else he envisioned was spectacular!
The pumps can’t use GMT?
Sunday, Nov. 2?
They said the same thing last year! Nothing will happen. A year from this weekend, we will be turning back our clocks.
Why don’t they fix the software in the insulin pump? It should adjust automatically.
I can remember when the current protocol was implemented in my elementary school days of Nixon. It screwed us kids up royally (large family of stair-step siblings) when we were getting ready for school. Had to suddenly walk to school in the dark for a few weeks in the spring. Parents HATED it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They are not proposing to end Daylight Savings Time, but forever abolishing Standard Time. I say eliminate DST and stop all this nonsense.
If this is the thing that puts an end to this foolishness, great
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?
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.
Get your head out of your ass Selah.
My cat hates the time changes. His feeding clock stays the same.
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.