Posted on 03/16/2022 6:18:17 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
I agree with the 1/2 hour proposal. Something for everybody!
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
My map and compass don't care what time it is.
The problem is that time zones go roughly along longitudinal lines and do not take into account the effects of latitude. We live near the Northern Border and the sun goes down here before 4:30 from the middle of November until the first week in January. I couldn't give a rip whether the morning part of my commute is in the dark, but the sun going down so early puts a big kink in what I am typically trying to accomplish. This also causes my wife seasonal depression issues. I always look forward to the middle of March when things get back to normal. So, I vote to keep daylight savings time all year round. People living in Phoenix, Miami, Houston, etc... can have standard time if they want; in the winter it stays light an hour longer than it does at our latitude anyway.
I think many of us were aware that DST messed with our body clocks. I believe there is a reason why we are supposed to get up when it is light and retire when it is dark.
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The human body clock works on a forward rotating circadian system. I have read that the body has a 25 hour circadian rhythm in a 24 hour world.
I worked shift work for 31 years, changing every ten days.
The killer shifts were Mid nights, evenings, days as it was a backwards rotating system.
Then Days, evenings Midnights. A forward circadian system. Not as bad!
Then the company went to a real killer. 12 hour shifts. Work three days, get two days off, then back on four midnights. The body never got used to those rotations.
I agree, but people who live in Southern latitudes in this country have much less variation in the hours of daylight available to them throughout the year. Where my wife and I live it would be much more convenient for us if we had daylight savings time all year round. In Miami they have over ten and a half hours of daylight during the winter solstice while in the Seattle area we have over two hours less daylight at the same time. People down south in this country never needed daylight savings time because they have plenty of daylight all year round. It was always meant for the convenience of northerners.
Either. The problem is the constant changing. Pick one and stick with it.
Originally from Louisiana and now living in San Antonio, but I spent 20 years in Washington, so I have experienced both. Hated the change in all venues.
good! have a nice stay in burundi!
My concern with NOT shifting to DST is that (my day starts very early out here in Auburn, California) is that if we stay on PST, from mid-May through the end of June it will begin to get light before 3:30 a.m. with full sunrise by 4:15 a.m. ... a tad bit early ... and I bet will be a real shock to many if that were to happen.
Either they don't, or because they are never in one zone for long they don't get used to any one thing.
screw daylight savings time and stay on standard time the year round.
Ugh—that would be terrible over here on the US East Coast!
12xDST, please.
Just do away with time all together. Show up to work whenever so the line at Starbucks is never too long.
My wife and I have lived in Washington all of our lives. We watched it go from a mostly conservative state outside of Seattle to what it is now... a mostly conservative state completely dominated by the massive number of imported liberals and recent immigrants now living in all the big cities. We are too old to fight the tide and are hoping to move soon to a more conservative area that is not dark and drizzly for six months out of the year. We can't afford the high property taxes in Texas, but do you or does anyone else here have any suggestions?
Sorry. It was Ben Franklin, who one springtime morning saw the sun up and blazing away “burning daylight” while people still dozed. He decided a clock shift would be advantageous. However, farmers and others needing to arise early are up before daylight anyhow, year ‘round. So it may have been unwise to make EVERYONE rise an hour earlier.
Screw that. It’s either stay the same or go on DST all year.
High property taxes in Texas?? Compared to WASHINGTON...?? Not in my experience.
Of course where I lived in WA was one of the highest property tax areas in the state.
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