Posted on 03/10/2007 11:03:43 AM PST by SandRat
Arizonans successfully gave the federal government the "MAGIC WIDGET DIGET" three decades ago and stayed on standard time year-round.
Arizonans viewed it as a no-brainer, and wanted no part of it.
See how we did it then start working in your state to get rid of it.
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If there is any plus or minus to DST in Alaska it isn't real obvious except that FedGov gets to yank us around twice a year.
Is FedGov mandating how clocks are set even constitutional?
I hate Daylight Saving Time or at least I hate the changing back and forth. Pick one and stay with it!
I agree, pick one. If DST actually saves electricity, which I doubt, then why not use it year 'round? Actually I would be quite happy with standard time year 'round also, just PICK ONE for crying out loud!
As Paul Harvey has said for decades " Why does the government mandate time changes? Because they can." Ben Franklin came up with this idea when the street lamps were individually lit and they were burining whale oil, for Petes sake. (Philadelphia, of course.)
Since time is money, and the Constitution empowers congress to regulate the value of money, time is under control of the federal government. :-)
Seriously, I think it could come under the standard of weights and measures.
I really like DST. If folks don't like it they can get up erlier and go to bed earlier. They should stop whining.
One poster asked if this nonsense of fiddling with the clocks is constitutional. No. But the government always takes powers for itself even if it has no right. After a few years, everyont thinks that the government always had the right.
It's dumb to fiddle with the clocks, but it's dumber for one state to de-fiddle while everyone else is fiddling.
The farther south you go, the less important dst is. At the equator, it is nearly irrelevant.
However, the northern states desperately need dst.
And the airlines, computers, etc, need uniformity.
So you far south southerners will have to suck it up and put up with it.
Well, I love daylight savings. I love the late light on summer evenings. I suppose if I had to get up at 4:00AM to feed the cows I'd feel differently, but I don't.
You could accomplish the same thing by having everything including school, work, and store openings start an hour earlier in summer, but that would be a lot more complicated and confusing.
It's about commerce. DST increases retail sales. FedGov seems to be mainly in aid of commerce.
There must be a band of latitudes where DST makes a difference, mainly to commerce. Call them the temporal zone. It matters zero in Fairbanks, Alaska.
So the government could come up with a standard that says, "No Fat Chicks"?
I resent the fedgov fiddling around with it and changing the date every few years, creating a Y2K style crisis in the computers everybody uses. I liked it just fine, loved it in fact, when it was six months out of the year. I liked it less when it was seven, and it irritates the hell out of me that it's going to eight. I'd like to see Texas give big brother the finger on this one as well.
Extra hour of fishing or whatever.
Thanks, boss.
They're working on it. It's called government health care.
I heard a radio piece a couple of years ago about a cuckoo clock museum in the UK. I think they said it takes 10 hours to change all the clocks.
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