Posted on 04/11/2023 11:10:54 PM PDT by McGruff
The Texas House has taken sides in one of America’s most polarizing debates — whether to continue changing clocks twice a year, ditch daylight saving time altogether or stick with later daylight permanently.
The representatives’ overwhelming verdict: Stay on daylight saving time moving forward.
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The idea is far from becoming reality. Once the bill gets a final House vote, it still has to clear the Senate. And even if signed to law by Gov. Greg Abbott, the measure would still require an OK from Congress.
Federal law lets states exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time — meaning they remain on standard time year-round — if they pass state laws doing so. But states do not have the power to permanently observe daylight saving time, like the Texas House wants, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Why stay with DST instead of going to straight time?
I agree. Here in the north country, we won’t get daylight in the winter until almost 9am if we stay on daylight savings time.
Which is a very weak excuse as trucks pass through different times zones already from one coast to the other and somehow manage.
Idiots don’t think of that. They think “The Government” will give us an extra hour of daylight!
That’s my biggest beef...Kids will be going to school in the dark. Just plain stupid.
Cuz they’re government and think they know best. They’re totally ignorant.
Article 1 section 8 “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”
The other problem is, the sun comes up so stinking early on standard time if you are on the eastern edge of your time zone and it gets dark way too early in the evening, when most people are up and about.
There’s been talk in the New England states of switching to or making an Atlantic time zone but all the wusses whine about how many people live in CT and work in NYC and oh me, oh my, it might confuse some of them. Like nobody else in the rest of the country ever works in a city nearby that’s a different time zone than where they live.
We’re in the same time zone as Michigan, it goes from Maine to Michigan, a ridiculous amount of geography.
For today, April 12, sunrise in Bangor, ME is 5:56 AM and sunset is 7:16 PM.
For Lansing MI, sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset is 8:16PM.
That’s just a ridiculous spread.
I think in some cases they should just split the difference and move it 1/2 an hour and just leave it. It’s at least a compromise of some sorts.
Which was first? Daylight Savings time or Standard Time/Local mean time?
Local meantime was first, that said personally after watching the Zulu clock for many years (Greenwich Mean Time, Coordinated Universal Time) gets my vote.
So what if it’s 1200Z and it’s 0800 local. All time zones are coordinated at that point.
What time did The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson come on? 0400Z.
There are still telephone numbers and short wave universal time ticks available to coordinate the local clocks.
It's a one hour spread, which is astonishing since time zones are one hour apart. Could go for half hour time zones I suppose, but that would confuse everyone.
Standard time is Natural Time and the only “real time”...if in fact there is such a thing as “time”.
The use of DST is due to the annual variation in daylight hours. And you can blame that on the 23.5° tilt of the Earth’s axis relative to its orbital plane.
DST simply shifts an hour's worth of increased daylight during the summer from the morning to the evening, when people spend more time outdoors. In the fall, with shorter daylight hours, DST is shifted back until next spring.
Close to the equator or closer to the pole, DST isn't that useful.
This is not the role of the federal government. Regulating interstate commerce has nothing to do with the clocks.
The closer a place is to the equator the less sense “daylight” time makes.
I like it. Where I live the sun would be bright in the sky at 4AM during May/June/July without it.
Why is Feb 28 days and March 31 days?
Maybe we could get some nuclear powered rockets to slowly adjust the spin rate of the earth so that the spin rate and orbit period are syncedup. Then we could get rid of that pesky leap-year problem. Maybe at the same time we could go to 360 days a year and get 12 30 day months. God really messed up when he created the heavens and the earth, didn't he?
God did a magnificent job. The Universe is amazing. Just go out on a star studded night.
Man is inquisitive and has made great strides...but it remains...he knows only a tad of what's out there...even after thousands of years of observation.
Just remember that God's "satellites" are "alive" and man's satellites are Nuts and bolts.
Arizona (most of it) nor Hawaii change
Arizona does not change clocks from MST.
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