Agreed. It's a bad idea.
Why not just have school start later? Kids typically get home around 230 in the afternoon as it is.
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!