Lawmaker hopes upcoming daylight savings will be Tennessee's last

Johnson City (TN) Press ^ | March 7, 2014 | Tony Casey

[don-o]

It's about time. (Doh!)

I want this to happen.

I would prefer to stay on standard time, but eliminating the 2x switch is better than how it is now.

[Abby4116]

The thing that has always bothered me when they have expanded daylight savings time is the kids that walk to and wait for the school bus while it is still pitch black outside.

[SamAdams76]

I agree that changing the clocks twice a year is a hassle (and a growing IT burden for many corporations). But if we are going to agree on keeping one time, we should stick with Daylight Savings Time instead of Standard Time. Having that extra daylight during the summer months at the end of the working day is psychologically important for most people.

In fact, push the daylight as late into the day as possible. How drab would it be to come home from work in the middle of summer to a sunset? On the other hand, how great would it be to come home from work in June or July, fire up the grill and sit in your backyard for hours before the sun sets.

Make it so you get a sunset in summer around 9 or 9:30 pm and I can live with that. You would even still have some daylight left in the middle of winter on the way home from work.

Dark mornings, I think we can learn to deal with.

[AlexW]

Gee, I forgot what DST was when I left Tennessee, and the USSA.

[txrefugee]

We are such stupid sheep that we let the D. C. masters tell us what time we have to get up in the morning....and how much water we can have to flush our toilet. From that point on, have you ever counted the number of Federal and State laws you comply with every day? It is staggering....and yet we call ourselves “free.”

[don-o]

Since you are a deserter, I advise all FReepers to ignore your comment.

[bert]

I already live on EDT.

At some point in the not to distant pass, my old body determined to hell with it. I function on daylight time. So, I fall asleep or wake at pretty much the same time regardless of what the clock says.

Curiously my wife seems stuck om EST. We live an hour apart

[Sybeck1]

Since I live two miles from the Tennessee border and work there I personally hope this does not go through

[Wiser now]

I love that extra hour of daylight in the evening. I always have.

[wita]

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That’s what I think about it. Stupid, is what we do now and it continues unabated except for AZ and I think Hawaii.

[Wiser now]

I can sympathize. I have a family member who lived in the central time zone and worked in the eastern time zone. She managed that schedule for more than ten years.

[bondserv]

Only an hour away; still to close. :-)

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Here in Arizona, many of us look forward to having the sun set in June or July. Fortunately, Arizona stays on Standard Time all year.

[don-o]

How drab would it be to come home from work in the middle of summer to a sunset?

Does that actually happen anywhere on standard time?

Also, recall that the current imposition of "savings time" originated from Jimmy Carter's response to the Arab oil embargo of the 1970's. It was supposed to decrease oil imports, which, of course, it never did.

Previously it was imposed as "war time" to increase agricultural production. I am not sure if the crops grew faster and lusher or not. I rather doubt it.

Myself, I want a 13th month added to the calendar, so I get an additional Social Security check.

[bert]

Except the Navajo reservation. To visitors traveling back and forth between Arizona, the Navajo Reservation and Utah, it is hard to keep track of the time.

[don-o]

hard to keep track of the time.

Plus one and minus one is hard? All righty, then.

[southernnorthcarolina]

That there extry hour of sunlight makes mah crops burn up.

But seriously, this debate has been going on in Tennessee for a half-century or so. The fact that Tennessee is in two time zones (the Eastern/Central line runs between Knoxville and Nashville) adds another complication, particularly for those who live near the line.

In the 1960s or 70s, in Nashville, the two major newspapers, the Tennessean (the morning paper, solidly Democratic), and the Banner (the evening paper, staunchly Republican), though under separate ownership, were printed in the same building. On the front of the building was a vertical sign, bearing "Tennessean" on one side, and "Banner" on the other, with a two-faced clock underneath it. Yep, you guessed it: during daylight saving time, the two clock faces showed two different times.

I don't know which paper had which position. But some of the anti-DST people were Christian fundamentalists, who regarded standard time as "God's time," not to be interfered with by mere mortals.

[AlexW]

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[exnavy]

There is no “extra daylight” associated with this ridiculous nonsense, the days are exactly the same length before or after.

[Straight8]

I agree. Late sunsets and early morning sunrises were never a problem for me.