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To: Kaslin
I agree but go the other way with this. Abolish standard time and keep daylight time as the standard.

Having it get dark at 7PM in the middle of summer sucks. Especially for working people who are just getting home at that time.

I spend enough time each year coming home in the dark. At least give a few months where I can sit out on the patio for an hour or so after work - grilling a steak with a beer in my hand.

6 posted on 03/12/2015 10:34:04 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
Having it get dark at 7PM in the middle of summer sucks. Especially for working people who are just getting home at that time.

I spend enough time each year coming home in the dark. At least give a few months where I can sit out on the patio for an hour or so after work - grilling a steak with a beer in my hand.

THIS!!!!

19 posted on 03/12/2015 10:55:57 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: SamAdams76
agree but go the other way with this. Abolish standard time and keep daylight time as the standard.

I disagree. Let's have year-round standard time. Up until last week, I was finally getting up with the sun. I hate having to get up when it's pitch dark.

23 posted on 03/12/2015 10:57:50 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SamAdams76

Couldn’t agree more! Keep it light longer and forget Standard Time. Maybe those who do not live near the coast won’t understand, but longer days during the warmer months means business. Especially to coastal/beach locations. I look forward to DST every year since I’ve been a kid. That’s a lot of years. Only a few people who can’t adjust to a time shift twice a year become the biggest whiners.


51 posted on 03/12/2015 11:42:37 AM PDT by Wright Wing
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To: SamAdams76
Abolish standard time and keep daylight time as the standard.

Already been tried. 1974.

Didn't survive the cries of the outraged mommas whose babies had to wait on the street corner for school buses in the dark from Nov. to Jan.

53 posted on 03/12/2015 11:46:55 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: SamAdams76

Dark at 7 in the summer? I’m at a lower latitude than you, and it doesn’t get dark until 9:30.


56 posted on 03/12/2015 12:01:34 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: SamAdams76

Did it ever occur to you to petition your employer to alter their beginning and ending working hours schedule? Why disrupt most people when a company can choose their operating hours. The government only screws things up as they have since ole Ben F. wrote about it in a ‘humorous’ piece. Ole Ben is laughing his arse off at the thought of us trying to save daylight.

It won’t fit in a piggy bank and my bank won’t accept it either. So we might as well not try to save it... </Sarcasm


67 posted on 03/12/2015 12:58:45 PM PDT by rw4site (Little men want Big Government!)
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To: SamAdams76
I spend enough time each year coming home in the dark.

How about rearranging your work hours to suit yourself?

68 posted on 03/12/2015 1:05:19 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: SamAdams76
I wake up at 4:00 a.m. so regardless what time zone it is, it's always dark. Having an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day opens up many avenues as to what you can do with it........

"Evil likes darkness" and like my grandfather always said, "nothing good ever happens when the sun goes down"........

69 posted on 03/12/2015 1:06:37 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: SamAdams76

I’m in favor of double DST from May through August.


71 posted on 03/12/2015 1:33:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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