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Trump Tweet about Daylight Saving Time
Twitter ^ | Mar 11, 2019 | President Trump

Posted on 03/11/2019 9:23:26 AM PDT by McGruff

Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!

10:17 AM · Mar 11, 2019

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dst
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To: McGruff

More light for sports and recreation after work.


21 posted on 03/11/2019 9:37:12 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: lodi90

Sure. More darkness in the morning means more kids getting run over on the way to school.


This is one of the two arguments I’ve heard for it as well. However, where I live, they are going to school in darkness anyway. It doesn’t help.

And, for the record, I think public schools should be abolished anyway. They are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. They are absurdly expensive and grossly ineffective. The main reason people bristle at the idea is that they need the free daycare.

Truth is that, just as bad parents today tend to end up with poorly educated children, the same would happen if we abolished public schools. And the rest of the parents out there would use things like Kahnacademy.com, MIT and other free resources to teach their kids and get curriculum at a fraction of the price of public school, as well as the time commitment and all the other peripheral dollar expenses.

And most kids could reach the knowlege level of a typical high school graduate in ten years or less. Often significantly less.

No more school buses either. :)


22 posted on 03/11/2019 9:37:39 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: missnry

Make Evenings Great Again!


23 posted on 03/11/2019 9:38:34 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: cuban leaf
🙂
24 posted on 03/11/2019 9:39:28 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: lodi90
Sure. More darkness in the morning means more kids getting run over on the way to school.

Agreed. It's a bad idea.

25 posted on 03/11/2019 9:39:37 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: JudyinCanada

I’m all in for dealing with reality


26 posted on 03/11/2019 9:39:48 AM PDT by spudville
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To: lodi90

start school an hour later?
everyone will adjust.


27 posted on 03/11/2019 9:41:35 AM PDT by cantbetooconservative (I miss Ronald Reagan)
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To: CatOwner

Why not just have school start later? Kids typically get home around 230 in the afternoon as it is.


28 posted on 03/11/2019 9:42:19 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: McGruff

How about we advance the clocks ahead a couple minutes every week for half the year, and then retard them the same amount on the other half.

Then we get the benefits of both time periods without the sleeping shock, and we’ll create an entire industry to fix all of our clocks, software, appliances, etc. That will require plenty of coders, so it solves the problem of MSM “journalists” made unemployed lately. They can “learn to code” and apply that new knowledge right away.


29 posted on 03/11/2019 9:42:59 AM PDT by chrisser
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To: McGruff

but, but, but...we like STANDARD time for a year-round measure.

Or, the vast majority of people do.


30 posted on 03/11/2019 9:43:16 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: JimRed

I live in KY. The kids are already going to school in the dark.


31 posted on 03/11/2019 9:43:50 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: cuban leaf
Don't give a rip either way but pick a time and stick to it.
32 posted on 03/11/2019 9:43:55 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (If you are going to be baked by a witch you might as well go out with a mouth full of gingerbread!)
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To: CatOwner; lodi90

Californians voted for year-round daylight saving. Could this be our last spring forward?
3/9/2019, 9:09:46 AM · 36 of 80
Don W to kenmcg

Yes, the number of kids injured enroute to school because of winter darkness north of the Cali-Oregon border is appalling.

Here are a couple of hints: #1 Very few kids even walk to school anymore, because the church of perpetual panic (aka the press) has got parents paranoid about children’s safety even though we live in a far safer time than when we grew up, and: #2 the accident rate for kids in the north varies insignificantly from that rate south of the imaginary line I described earlier.

Your argument has ZERO basis in fact. The reason that humans are so successful is because we adapt quickly. Proof of that is the accident rate after each time change: it spikes for a day or two, then returns to its “normal” pattern.

I detest DST, and concur that the clocks should be left alone, since the original idea was a JOKE Benjamin Franklin made at the expense of the French.

The bigger joke is that politicians actually BELIEVED him!

Normal standardized time or an hour advanced, I don’t care, just make a decision and leave it the devil alone!


33 posted on 03/11/2019 9:44:59 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: lodi90

We have a kid killed going to school every year or two around my neck of the woods. It’s almost always in the morning


Key word: Almost.

It’s not about daylight. It’s about impatient and careless drivers. That happens night or day.


34 posted on 03/11/2019 9:45:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: McGruff
What we need is Local Noon Based Time(LNBT)

This time would be locally computer generated based on when high noon is at your physical local location. Your day would be exactly the hours between sunrise and sunset. Just like it used to be for centuries.

Anything requiring a schedule or coordination, class times, work meetings, conferences would all use GMT.

No confusing time zones to worry about.

We might need some new nomenclature for global coordintion but the old standards : morning, afternoon, evening and night should still suffice.

Does anybody really KNOW what time it is?

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35 posted on 03/11/2019 9:46:15 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: cuban leaf

“Is there anyone who is against it?”

Polls consistently show a preference for eliminating DST and reverting to Standard time year round.


36 posted on 03/11/2019 9:46:19 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Don W

Here are a couple of hints: #1 Very few kids even walk to school anymore, because the church of perpetual panic


True. The kids killed in my area on the way to school tend to be hit around bus stops.


37 posted on 03/11/2019 9:48:22 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: McGruff

A long time ago in a liberal classroom far away...

In a mid-1970’s government class, I in the House of Representatives introduced a bill to use DST all year round.

I was condescendingly told there were more important bills for the limited time we were in session.

Like the “equal rights amendment”, upon and for which all the cool well-connected Senators and Executive Branch members pontificated and received praise.


38 posted on 03/11/2019 9:48:24 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: cuban leaf
Is there anyone who is against it?

I think it should be eliminated. It's pointless.

39 posted on 03/11/2019 9:48:42 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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To: cuban leaf

It’s not about daylight. It’s about impatient and careless drivers. That happens night or day.


Yet I can’t recall the last afternoon child fatality related to school transportation in my area. I wonder why that is?


40 posted on 03/11/2019 9:49:37 AM PDT by lodi90
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