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[Florida] House approves push for [year round] daylight-saving time
Washington County (FL) News ^ | 2/14/18 | News Service of Florida

Posted on 02/15/2018 5:53:32 PM PST by foreverfree

The bill sailed to house passage. The state senate is considering a similar bill.

One of the house bill sponsors wants year-round DST as a boost to tourism courtesy of later sunsets.

Enactment would require Congressional approval.

I would like to see the language of the bill as to how soon it would take effect should Congress approve the change.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: chat; daylight; dst; localnews
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To: Damifino

YESSSSS!!!

I agree, and not having to do the stupid clock change is a big bonus.


21 posted on 02/15/2018 6:46:15 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Why in the world would man mess around with God's clock? The pretext is the same as global warming.....man can make it better. We're so vain.

This is silly talk... no one is suggesting man is moving the position of the sun/earth. Time, as in a 24 hour, 60 min to the hour day, is a human invention.... fooling with that has nothing to do with God's will.

AND it will still be light when I get out of work in the winter... Maybe can do some outside stuff longer in the season. For me that works.

22 posted on 02/15/2018 6:46:22 PM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: parmamenian

“Yes....more winning! Wish Trump would push this nationally!”

When I was in the House of Representatives in my NE United States 9th grade American History class, I introduced such a bill and was quickly shut down, because there were far too many other important bills to discuss and promote, such as the ERA.


23 posted on 02/15/2018 6:53:39 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: lastchance

What really sucks on the Panhandle is the Eastern/Central Time zone change line just East of Panama City.


24 posted on 02/15/2018 6:55:30 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: foreverfree

House approves push for [year round] daylight-saving time

My car radio already observes this, as the buttons and instructions are too small for me to put on reading glasses while driving to make the adjustment twice a year, especially when I have to go “back” 11 hours in the Fall.


25 posted on 02/15/2018 6:56:31 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Sasparilla

On the big plus side, Big Media would no longer be able to convince people coming home from work that the polls had closed an hour early.


26 posted on 02/15/2018 6:58:43 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Sasparilla

True.


27 posted on 02/15/2018 7:05:22 PM PST by Panhandle.deporable (Future these)
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To: Damifino

Nooooooo. Many times nooooooo. It is a senseless idea.


28 posted on 02/15/2018 7:11:39 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: KarlInOhio

We could use some mountains. It will help with the skiing.


29 posted on 02/15/2018 7:12:29 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: foreverfree

I also want it.

Maine is the Easternmost point in the US, and should be on Atlantic time. Straight North of us is.

I hate moving the clocks back and forth...it’s just plain stupid.


30 posted on 02/15/2018 7:12:51 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: Fiji Hill

More to the point to have school children out on the morning dark roads is rather dangerous.


31 posted on 02/15/2018 7:13:20 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: CurlyDave
northern ones not so much.

I don't benefit from it, and I'm about as "Northern" as it gets. It frigs everybody up and serves no real purpose. If they want to help out the school kids...change the school hours.

DST: Dumb idea Ben.

32 posted on 02/15/2018 7:21:05 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: lastchance

Move school starting times forward.

A study I read a while back indicates that high school students aren’t really awake until at least 10:00 AM. I believe I observed this also while teaching high school in the 70s and 80s.

I’m all in favor of springing forward a half hour, or falling back a half hour and never moving again.


33 posted on 02/15/2018 7:38:58 PM PST by Yulee
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To: parmamenian

Horrible idea.

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34 posted on 02/15/2018 7:41:39 PM PST by Mears
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To: Yulee

“Move school starting times forward.

A study I read a while back indicates that high school students aren’t really awake until at least 10:00 AM”

I think you want to move starting times backward.

Half hour adjustments would really make flying across country difficult.


35 posted on 02/15/2018 8:29:39 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: foreverfree

That would essentially put Florida on Atlantic Time, the same as Puerto Rico.

The Marlins and Rays would never play a road game in their time zone.


36 posted on 02/15/2018 9:17:39 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Sasparilla

I always think of that time zone split in terms of elections...that’s the most conservative / Republican part of the state - remember how the networks almost pulled off stealing the election by announcing repeatedly the polls were all closed in Florida for an hour while they were still open there, and even many of them calling the state for Gore while they were still open there, which was proven to have severely depressed turnout in that part of the state during that last hour of polls being open. Had they not done that, all of that fiasco with the recounts of recounts, court battles, etc. would not have occurred as Bush would have won the state by several thousand more votes. Amazing how close they came to pulling it off. https://youtu.be/EoBjCEWadi0?t=1h22m52s


37 posted on 02/15/2018 9:27:58 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Damifino
>>>Why in the world would man mess around with God's clock? The pretext is the same as global warming.....man can make it better. We're so vain.<<<

This is silly talk... no one is suggesting man is moving the position of the sun/earth. Time, as in a 24 hour, 60 min to the hour day, is a human invention.... fooling with that has nothing to do with God's will.<<<

I'm glad someone else gets this besides me. I hate going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark....God created the day and the night but he didn't invent the clock. I don't think He cares how we divide the time.

38 posted on 02/15/2018 9:33:03 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: Fiji Hill
I would prefer to have year-round standard time. I hate having to get up in the morning in pitch darkness.

Florida's mosquitoes (but especially no-see-ums) are waiting for you at dawn and dusk.

39 posted on 02/16/2018 1:28:56 AM PST by Does so (Text a message mentioning the Florida town of Islamorada--funny notification by ear...)
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To: foreverfree
We just need it to be one way or the other, DST or no DST, just no more moving the clocks forward or backwards.

Personally, I don't prefer DST. I say just do away with it, period, end of story, case closed.

40 posted on 02/16/2018 3:48:58 AM PST by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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