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Daylight Saving Time Has a Devastating Consequence That No One Is Talking About
Slate ^ | 10/31/25 | Mark Joseph Stern

Posted on 11/01/2025 5:53:38 PM PDT by Borges

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To: cgbg
FTA: "You may not notice this—but perhaps, on some level, you do? Every presidential election since 2005’s DST expansion has arrived two days after the time change. Have you ever felt, walking to the polls or watching returns, that it’s oddly black, bleak, depressing outside? Are your memories of Election Days past (I’m looking at you, 2016) set against the backdrop of too-early nightfall that seems, frankly, like the end of the world? Mine certainly are."

Author is at right. Surprise! /sarcasm

41 posted on 11/01/2025 7:07:19 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Borges

Why standard time over DST?


42 posted on 11/01/2025 7:17:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Glad2bnuts

I agree.


43 posted on 11/01/2025 7:18:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That’s the normal time. It’s DST that’s the abberation.


44 posted on 11/01/2025 7:22:33 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Ha! From Hawaii..


45 posted on 11/01/2025 7:28:22 PM PDT by dakine
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To: Borges

It is certainly a statement of government control over people’s lives.

I’m going to Standard Time (real time) and I’m not playing along next spring. All my clocks will remain on ST.

High noon is when the sun is at it’s zenith.


46 posted on 11/01/2025 7:29:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Terrorism has been institutionalized by the left. Ask no quarter. Give no quarter.)
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To: nickcarraway

Preach it.

Getting dark so early does nobody cany good.


47 posted on 11/01/2025 7:54:21 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Borges
But I am convinced that our annual “fall back” is something worse than all of these things: not just an inconvenience, but an act of state-sponsored voter suppression.

Really? Going back to normal time was designed to keep people from voting?

Falling back is also not "sleep wrecking" - that's spring forward where you lose the hour.

Lunacy.

48 posted on 11/01/2025 7:56:10 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: metmom
If we just stayed at normal time it would be more gradual rather than a sudden drop off one day.

The sun seeming to rise much later by staying in DST in the winter creates its own issues. It was tried before and was a disaster and quickly repealed.

49 posted on 11/01/2025 7:59:08 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: metmom

“Getting dark so early does nobody cany good.”

It does good to people who get up in the morning to work and go to school.


50 posted on 11/01/2025 8:16:34 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Borges

Permanent Standard Time is better for health.

Also, two-thirds of Americans want to get rid of Daylight Savings Time, yet the government keeps demanding that we change all of our clocks.

It's time for this nonsense to end. The Sun should be our guide.


51 posted on 11/01/2025 8:16:51 PM PDT by chud
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To: Political Junkie Too

The big thing I hated about Standard Time was that I would go to work in the dark, and come home in the dark.


52 posted on 11/01/2025 9:00:19 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: telescope115
Based on your screen name, wouldn't that be what you want?

-PJ

53 posted on 11/01/2025 9:03:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: decal

But then you have the time zones to consider.


54 posted on 11/01/2025 9:10:52 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: telescope115

Let the networks worry about that.

The more I think about this the better I like it - I’m gonna find some traffic court judge to make it The Law Of The Land.


55 posted on 11/01/2025 9:17:41 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yeah, now that I’m retired it doesn’t really matter. I used to get up at 4AM to be at work by 6. Getting dark early IS an advantage in the winter, I could get a few hours of t-scope time in before bed.


56 posted on 11/01/2025 9:20:56 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Borges

Is it? Or all these things arbitrary?


57 posted on 11/01/2025 11:37:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Agreed


58 posted on 11/02/2025 12:38:55 AM PDT by Az Joe (No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to keep up.)
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To: cgbg

We’re doomed!! 😃😄🤣🤣🤣


59 posted on 11/02/2025 2:08:45 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: cgbg; gunnut; fwdude; ViLaLuz; artichokegrower; Elsie; SeekAndFind; Libloather; Morgana

They’re soooooo predictable...🙄🙄🙄

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60 posted on 11/02/2025 2:13:44 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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