Posted on 03/15/2022 3:25:46 PM PDT by Libloather
The World may burn, but the U.S. Senate can do this!
(Please clap.)
But it will still always be 5 O’Clock somewhere.
Oh. By the time they came out, I wasn’t listening to very much popular music. I’m still catching up on some gems here and there.
They did this during the 1970’s to supposedly save fuel. The problem was the long period of dark mornings for kids going to school.
LOL
/it’s just a jump to the left and then a step to the right…
DST? No, it is illogical. Changing clocks, timetables, programming software = waste. The correct solution is STANDARD time, all the time. It is called Standard for a reason.
Pretty soon it’s going to be “War Time”.
They didn’t shoot the picture at noon. The shadow is to long. I’m with Arizona, standard time all the time. IMO.
On other occasions, the Senate debated the volume flow of water in toilets, and practically banned incandescent light bulbs.
Recall CAFE’ standards, the 55 mph speed limit, corn alcohol in gasoline.
These are the great issues that occupied the world’s once greatest deliberative body.
I’m fine with renaming what is currently called “Daylight Savings Time” to “Standard Time” and keeping it year round. I’m NOT fine with being robbed of after work daylight in the Summer. What currently passes for “Standard Time” should be renamed to “Obsolete” and eliminated. No more “falling back”.
They weren’t pop. They were mainly played on the college stations as “alternative” rock. REM was the same until they hit mainstream.
Saw REM at a frat crush years ago. Mike Stipe could barely stand up to sing. No telling what he was on.
This has been tried before and failed. I know there are members of Congress who are older than I am, so at least some of them ought to remember 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, which is not that far north. 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. Despite the bipartisan gushing on this, not even a mighty act of Congress will give us more sunlight to enjoy all the time.
I am sure that somebody in Washington could have done a little research into this — maybe by picking up a copy of “The Farmers’ Almanac,” - -but, hey, it is Washington after all.
About time they did something right
This is a great idea. Very beneficial. Should have been done years ago.
I'm okay with them focusing on stuff like this. Otherwise they'd be trying to figure out more ways to steal money from me.
Bad, bad idea. Parents of kids at bus stops want the extra hour of daylight in the morning, not evening.
Leave it up to government to screw up something this simple. Idiots.
High Noon. (High 11, Standard Time.)
There ya go, someone with some common sense.
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