Posted on 03/13/2022 5:53:18 PM PDT by devane617
Which states are trying to change daylight saving time?
In the last four years, 18 states have enacted legislation or resolutions to keep residents on year-round daylight saving time, pending Congressional approval. In some cases, the legislation stipulates that neighboring states enact similar legislation.
These states have already enacted legislation or resolutions to adhere to year-round daylight saving time:
Alabama California (authorized by voters, not yet enacted) Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Louisiana Maine Minnesota Mississippi Montana Ohio Oregon South Carolina Tennessee Utah Washington Wyoming This year alone, nearly 30 states are considering legislation regarding daylight saving time, according to the NCSL.
Then change the school start time. Up north there are so many daylight hours so school will either start or end in the dark.
double summer time
Its what the French do, they are one hour behind and then add another DST on top of that.
This happens after flying cars powered by cold fusion.
This same story has been run annualy since 1955.
Only if school hours are more than 9 hours long.
We had year round dst in the northeast under Nixon. They changed the primary school start time to 9:30 AM. The problem is the northern part of the country only has 7-8 hours of daylight at the beginning of winter. No matter what you do, you will be coming or going in the dark.
Where in the US is there only 7-8 hours of daylight at the beginning of winter?
I might be missing something, but I think there are millions of computers in autos and the Internet of Things that are not programmed to run on DST all year long.
I might be missing something, but I think there are millions of computers in autos and the Internet of Things that are not programmed to run on DST all year long.
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No problem. When your gas car goes tires up, your electric car will have constant computer monitoring and updating, automatically.
Not counting Alaska, International Falls, MN has Sunrise at 8:00 AM and Sunset at 4:20 PM. CT has about an hour more. But these places are not Phoenix, and if it is overcast (often) it is actually pretty dark even within those hours. I grew up in Connecticut, and if you have a commute of any length or a bit of a walk from school (yes, I walked or rode a bike), you spent time in darkness.
Just let each individual make their own decision whether to be on DST or not...easy peasy. Why does the government get to tell me what time it is?
They should do a little research on the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973, a year-round DST plan signed by President Nixon to ease the energy crisis. I like DST during the summer because I would rather have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening when I am awake to use it rather than in the morning when I am still asleep. The problem with DST all year is that, at least in areas farther north, the sun rises very late during the days of the year with the shortest hours of sunlight. In high school in 1974-75, I had to catch the bus around 7:10 and I walked to the bus stop by starlight. That was in St. Louis. As I recall, sunrise could occur as late as 8:00, maybe later. That wasn’t a problem for me, but I wouldn’t want to send smaller children out in the dark like that, especially these days. Anyway, I believe that concern is why this experiment was ended.
I know that it’s probably never going to happen, but why not just put the whole damned world on GMT with a 24 hour clock with people in each area figuring out for themselves the optimal schedules based on the amount of daylight they have? Why is everyone so attached to the work day being “9 to 5” and school being “8 to 3” everywhere? Why can’t school in L.A. start at a 15:00 GMT and end at 22:00? Why can’t the work day in Tokyo start at 00:00 GMT while it starts at 12:00 GMT in Istanbul?
Or just leave it “Standard Time” year round...easier.
So essentially they’re switching to Phoenix Time.
What makes you think that public school teachers will follow the school busses?
I love it myself after growing up changing clocks and we even get our own time zone whenever you have to manually set the time on something electronic because of it. But, we do still have to deal with the fallout of the rest of the country using it... My wife’s family is on the East coast and mine are on the West coast so we are continually trying to figure out different time changes depending on if they are on daylight savings time or not.
Up north is much different though, We were in the northern tip of Oregon one year for the 4th of July and it did not get dark until after 10pm if I remember right... To me that would be an argument to stay off of it... It might not have been quite that late, but it was way past our kids bedtime when it was dark enough to see fireworks and it seems like it would be harder to get kids in bed when it is still light out. Then other times I remember it being pretty dark at 4 in the afternoon, I always thought it seemed backwards there, they went off it right when they should have stayed on it.
You caught that too.
Fargo ND has about 8-1/2 hours of daylight at the begining of winter. Its where child molesters go for a child molesting christmas vacation, the extra dark hours and all. /S - because too many people here dont have the equipment to handle veiled sarcasm
I also grew up in the north, walked to school in the dark, shoveled snow in the dark when got home, only daylight hours outside were walking home from school and weekends. It got dark around 5 pm .
Why dont they just switch time zones if they dont like the one thez in?
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