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Daylight Saving Time: Is the Clock Running Out on Yearly Time Changes?
People via MSN ^ | 3/11/22 | Jason Duaine Hahn

Posted on 03/12/2022 4:04:19 PM PST by Libloather

At 2 a.m. local time on the second Sunday of March, clocks around the country will "spring forward" one hour to 3 a.m., marking the start of daylight saving time and the end of standard time.

For decades, this shift has cost Americans a valuable hour of their weekend that they won't see again until clocks move back during the first Sunday of November. But an end to the tradition may be closer than ever before.

According to USA Today, the federal government first enacted daylight saving to conserve coal during World War I in the spring of 1918. But President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration didn't make it law until nearly 50 years later with the Uniform Time Act. Since then, daylight saving has increased from six months to its current eight-month span.

The Department of Transportation continues to observe daylight saving because it reportedly saves energy, cuts down on traffic accidents and reduces crime.

In recent years, there have been calls to end the twice-yearly time change, with one of the more vocal critics being Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

Rubio, a Republican, is endorsing the "Sunshine Protection Act," which would make daylight saving time permanent, essentially making it the new "standard time."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: clock; daylight; daylightlosingtime; daylightsavingtime; saving; time
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To: Drago

I’m with Marco: DST forever!


41 posted on 03/12/2022 4:37:25 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

PST, MST, CST, EST Forever!! ;-)


42 posted on 03/12/2022 4:40:37 PM PST by Drago
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To: Libloather

It is dumb to have the extra hour of daylight in the morning. They should have late at night when the crimes happen.


43 posted on 03/12/2022 4:45:05 PM PST by ExpatCanuck
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To: daniel1212

They don’t need Congress to permit anything. Arizona is not on daylight savings time, how did they get away with it?


44 posted on 03/12/2022 4:45:24 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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To: ExpatCanuck

Where I live, on the western edge of the time zone, it’s light in June ‘til 10:00 PM.


45 posted on 03/12/2022 4:48:06 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Libloather

Day light savings time is totally senseless. Pick a time and stop annualy switching time.


46 posted on 03/12/2022 4:50:34 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Libloather

I never understood why 60 silly minutes made such a difference in peoples lives. Everybody still gets 24 hours a day to manage. Manage accordingly.


47 posted on 03/12/2022 4:51:01 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I live in Arizona, and you’re exactly right. By evening in the summer, you just want the sun to go away.

Not all of Arizona stays on standard time. The Navajo Nation observes DST, but the Hopi Nation does not.


48 posted on 03/12/2022 4:51:08 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: wildcard_redneck

Not sure, but the Navajo territory does do DST. Go figure?


49 posted on 03/12/2022 4:53:45 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Libloather

I vote to stay on standard time year round, but would not have a problem with moving a half hour upward and leaving it that way.


50 posted on 03/12/2022 4:54:31 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Libloather
What we need is Local Noon Based Time(LNBT)

This time would be locally computer generated based on when high noon is at your physical local location. Your day would be exactly the hours between sunrise and sunset. Just like it used to be for centuries.

Anything requiring a schedule or coordination, class times, work meetings, conferences would all use GMT.

No confusing time zones to worry about.

We might need some new nomenclature for global coordintion but the old standards : morning, afternoon, evening and night should still suffice.

Does anybody really KNOW what time it is?

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51 posted on 03/12/2022 4:56:45 PM PST by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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To: OttawaFreeper

I too could compromise with a half-hour change if necessary, but I would prefer standard time year-round. During the summer I’m practically nocturnal anyway.


52 posted on 03/12/2022 4:57:54 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Libloather

NO! I hate DST. Absolutely hate it. Keep Standard Time. If DST was to become the law of the land I’m moving to a location in the Central time zone. PERIOD!


53 posted on 03/12/2022 4:59:17 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ExpatCanuck

Try telling that to the kids at the bus stops and the parents who want that extra hour of daylight in the morning hours!


54 posted on 03/12/2022 5:00:47 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: DuncanWaring

Your electric bill must be something since you have all of those extra hot daylight hours. Makes no sense that anyone wants to pay higher electric bills especially in this time of soaring energy prices.


55 posted on 03/12/2022 5:02:45 PM PST by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: Libloather

I belong to Clock Setters Local 312 and eliminating this twice a year time change will put me, and a lot of my clock setting union brothers and sisters out of a job!


56 posted on 03/12/2022 5:04:15 PM PST by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: Libloather

This is one of the dumbest things that we still hang onto for no reason. End it. Now.


57 posted on 03/12/2022 5:06:45 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Sequoyah101

“...show some sign of intelligent life.”

You know THAT’s not gonna happen.


58 posted on 03/12/2022 5:08:00 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Libloather

In these days of catastrophic Global Warming (tm) the very last thing we need to save is daylight. What if somebody releases it all at once?


59 posted on 03/12/2022 5:09:09 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

Love, love, love daylight savings. Gives me more sunshine to rain hate on the leftists who operate in the dark.


60 posted on 03/12/2022 5:09:21 PM PST by sergeantdave
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