Posted on 03/22/2022 6:14:36 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Enjoy December and January, you idiots!
Just make school hours 10 am to 4 pm
I have the perfect antidote to the "daylight protection" nonsense. Just do everything one hour earlier throughout the summer and leave the clocks alone.
Lol! You're advocating standard time without the clock change!
Then they'll want to run it up another hour.
Why don't we just go ahead and run it up twelve hours? That's where all this is headed.
Going to a permanent DST is the same as the federal government ordering all businesses to open an hour earlier. The federal overreach would alarm most everyone, but sneaking around and doing the permanent DST isn’t near as nasty sounding, but it is the same thing.
Standard time us better way to go. I really hope this doesn’t get full approval as it would be very unhealthy. All our biorhythms and hormones depend on us getting light first thing in morning. If this goes all way, office workers (and many other employees) will literally never see light of day before begin work day. Standard time will allow more opportunity for early daylight exposure.
There is no "extra hour of daylight." Why is that so hard to understand?
NO THANK YOU!
I’d rather have daylight at 8PM than at 4AM. Keep things the way they are!!!!
If they do away with daylight savings time, then how will I remember to check the battery in my smoke detector that I keep forgetting to do anyway?
Daylight savings is stupid and arbitrary. There is no reason to move clocks at all in this day and age. The reality is that moving clocks is just a way to keep the 8 hour work day as much as possible in the daylight window. Farmers and school children used to care about this. But no longer. The reality is that a one-size-fits-all solution like moving clocks helps some communities while hurting others. Some countries like China, which has a land mass like ours, simply gets rid of time zones all together. The whole country is in one time zone.
In our country Bangor Maine’s sunset is only 25 minutes different from the sunset at the western most part of the time zone in upper Michigan which is west of St. Louis. Which begs the question, why do we have so many time zones if the sun rise is not that different from the eastern to the western part of a time zone. Why not have three time zones or only one. Schools and farmers don’t care as much as they did in the past. Each organization can adjust their times to suit their own needs.
As it is now, in my industry I work with people on both coasts. And I can tell you, if I meet up with someone in New York at 9 am, I may be sitting in the lobby alone waiting for them to show up at work. But if I have a conference call at 10 am eastern, my west coast employees have no problem being on the call. But don’t expect to find these people after 3PM their time. And if you do they are in their car going home. Clock setting like home phones and local TV stations are a thing of the past. If they go away they will not be missed.
Indeed. Re. my tagline.
So the Congress of The United States is going to sign into law some slight of hand with the rising and setting of the sun and ‘’save’’ daylight in the process.
Only in America.
I think it means "Daylight saving time" would be permanent?
Anyone else tired of this new idiotic trend in headlines?
I believe the Sunshine Protection Act would give us an immediate and long-term boost
Yeah, it'll be a real boost when it's pitch dark until 8:30 a.m. in December and January. What fun. Idiots.
At latitude 36° 30’ have no such problem. Move south and the problem dissipates
I prefer DST, too. We’re probably in the minority, on this.
I love the extra hour of evening daylight. And, I don’t mind the short amount of darkness, in the a.m.
Sycophant Reporter: Ms. Kameltoe, can you offer a simple explanation for daylight savings time being permanent?
Kameltoe replies, “We have these things called clocks. Any amazingly, they can be used to tell time. But time is different all over the world. But we can control time and move the hands on the clocks. So then you get more hours of sleep. Because, Science.”
Something like that?
For those in Texas, it means driving to and from work in the dark for 4 months (and more) a year.
It means my body’s internal clock is off for an hour, forever.
Move it back to STANDARD TIME, and then leave it the heck alone.
One or the other is fine with me, stop resetting the damned clocks! But standard time makes more sense, kids will be going to school in the dark with DST. That’s why it didn’t work during the Nixon Admin. (Yes, it has already been attempted and lasted for only a few months because “children were dying because of the darkness”.) Failed history, once again repeating. Why DST over Std time?
Baby steps...
Gives the idiots something to do so they at least aren’t screwing up something important.
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