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."
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Pick one and leave it.
I prefer Standard time.
30 years on 6p-6a and 11p-7a for me. Yuck. But I still liked some daylight when I woke! Lol
I know you’re right. I’m just trying not to be so negative all the time.
Northern states not fans of “year round DST”....sunrise at 9am is a bummer for school kids and the AM commute:
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/seattle?month=1&year=2022
Az time is wonderful. Lived there for a decade. It was the only time in my life that I didn’t experience sleep issues.
I’m with you. My clocks are preset from last year, and the years before.
I pretty much hate the clock change.
Always did, always will.
BTTT
I’m with you. . . I’m all for longer days of light at the end of the day, especially with the dreary weather and cold in the northeast. I almost dread the time change in November, as if November, December and January weather isn’t bad enough. Waking up in the dark isn’t quite so bad as walking your dogs in the dark at 4 in the afternoon.
If you compare the present-day time zones to the original time zones (soon after Daylight Saving Time became common) you will see a tendency for the borders to shift to the west--some areas which were originally in the Central Time Zone are now in the Eastern Time Zone.
Supposedly Benjamin Franklin first came up with the idea of daylight saving time when he was the US Minister to France. Paris being pretty far north (almost 49 degrees North latitude) meant that sunlight came into his bedroom pretty early in the morning in the summertime, and he liked to go to parties in the evening.
If it were up to me, I'd have everybody move the clocks back or forward every month - 10 minutes at a time.
We all need to get more exercise and this is the way to do it.
Yeah, I hear you. It had its time, and that time has passed. No pun intended.
We go back to CST so skool kids don’t hafta wait for bus in the dark ... in morning.
MA and FL same time zone. If it’s Dec and Patriots-Dolphins play at 4:30 it’s pitch black in MA and sunny in FL.
Heading out west and a bit to the south:
Last Sat. sunset was 5:45 pm in MA.
For my friends in Ohio, it was 6:30.
Both increased by an hr the next day.
Heading out to PA or OH near the summer solstice, the late sunsets there were noticeable. All Eastern time zone.
The idea of MA going to “daylight savings year round” means the 7 months of DST we stay the same while the other 5, we would be on Atlantic Standard Time.
New England noticeably further east than
Florida.
I’m all for DST and later sunsets.
How many clocks to change? A few, like microwave or clock radio. Other things are automatic changers—actually my clock radio does have an optional automatic change mode.
Car clocks (if not one on car stereo), some have an hour button and a minute button. You change the hour.
Ditto things like a glucose meter..you simply go to settings, then time/date.
Watches usually not that bad. One button on digital one to change time and another alters year, month, day, time. Some have
dual time zone settings and you can switch back and forth.
“Either
1)Abolish
2)Stay on all year
3)Go half an hour forward and stay that way”
Maybe I’m the only person who feels this way, but I think that we should keep Daylight Saving Time exactly how it is (except perhaps have it start a week later).
First of all, forget about going half an hour forward all year. The only countries that differ from the others by a half hour are Venezuela and a few other freaks. If you think that doing business with Europe and East Asia is hard now, imagine if we couldn’t even say that it’s now 10 minutes past the hour.
Second, getting rid of DST literally would waste sunlight—why the heck do you want the sun to come up at 5:15 a.m. and set at 7:30 p.m. in the summer months when it can come up at 6:15 a.m. (still way before most people go to work or school) and set at 8:30 p.m.?
And, regarding the solution that everyone seems to be pushing—springing forward and then just keeping it there forever—it just doesn’t work in the winter months. Let’s say that one lives in the cherry and wine country of Traverse City, Michigan. During the shorter days of late December and early January, the sun rises at between 8:16 and 8:19 a.m., and sets at 5:04 and 5:19 p.m. If we adopted permanent Daylight Savings Time, sure, the sun would set at 6:04 and 6:19 every afternoon, which is better than the alternative, but a sunrise at between 9:16 a.m. and 9:19 a.m. would be brutal. What do you propose, making school start at 9:30 a.m. so that kids aren’t waiting at the bus stop when it is pitch black? And will every job also start at 9:30 a.m. so you don’t have thousands of cars in the morning commute in absolute darkness (with the increase in traffic accidents that we’d see)? Having the sun rise so late just isn’t practical (sure, that’s the case in the winter in northern Alaska, which is one of the reasons why almost no one lives up there), which is why DST traditionally ran from April through October and now starts in the second week of March and runs through the first week of November but has not been imposed from early November to early March.
So you get an hour less of sleep one Sunday in the spring (actually, the late winter now) and get an extra hour of sleep in the fall—big whoop. If states want school and government business hours to start one hour later on the first Monday after the second Sunday in March, then they should go for it, but altering the schedule one day a year would be far less onerous than trying live a normal life with post-8:00 a.m. sunrises for 120 days every winter.
So Sheldon Whitehouse did not end his lifelong streak of being wrong on every single issue. : )
Id probably watch you for “free” on Youtube but if youre going to take that on tour then youre going to have to punch that skit up a bit before Im willing to buy a ticket.
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