Posted on 10/10/2022 7:15:35 AM PDT by devane617
Love it or hate it, it's coming: The end of Daylight saving time.
Yes, you'll need to get ready to "fall back." At 2 a.m. Pacific time on Sunday, Nov. 6, California residents will have to set their clocks back by one hour. That's happening again, even though in 2018, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 7, a ballot initiative that opened the door to permanently adopting daylight saving time.
Prop. 7 gave state lawmakers the power to pass legislation making daylight saving time permanent. Less than a month later, Assemblyman Kansen Chu introduced AB 7, the Daylight Saving Time law Prop. 7 enabled, but the Legislature never passed it.
Even if they had, the federal government would still need to OK the change.
This year, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill called the Sunshine Protection Act, which was introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida. The bill would permanently extend daylight saving time from eight months of the year to the full 12 months. But the measure has not yet been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, nor has it been signed into law by President Joe Biden.
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Our schools are also still geared to farmers.
Government is incapable of keeping up with society, but tries to bend it towards its will anyway.
I thought the main reason for keeping DST is to ensure it is light out when the kiddies are waiting for a school bus.
I agree...GMT is the right way to go. Either way...you only get so many hours of daylight. Playing with the clock changes nothing. It’s just being “stuck on stupid”.
Thanks.
Everybody in AL refers to it as "River Time." Both banks of the Chattahoochee all the way down to Eufaula.
On a thread full of good jibes, yours is the best.
Yes, in Seattle Sunset is around 4:15 all through December. It is extremely irritating. Of course, the poor devils living up in Juneau have sunset a little after 3:00 in December. In Miami sunset is around 5:30 all though December so it isn't that much of a hassle. The further North you go the more standard time becomes a nuisance in the winter.
If we are going to have standard time and daylight savings time it, it would make more sense for the clocks to be changed in the opposite direction. Sunset would be at 6:15 PM in Seattle in winter... for more preferable than 4:15. The potheads who live around here don't get up until after 9:45 AM so they wouldn't even notice that the sun was rising another hour later.
It is a mystery to me why Little Marco is the one leading the charge on this when the South is not affected as much as the North by this twice a year nonsense.
I like the changing of the clocks for the same reasons you state.
Good question.
One advantage of daylight savings is I have until 9:00 pm in the summer to finish mowing the yard. One disadvantage of returning to regular time is I now have to mow the yard as fast as I could soon as I got home from work, knowing it's going to be dark soon...
As a pre-teenager, one year in the fall, I changed the clocks before my folks woke up. Unfortunately, I erred and changed them to one hour ahead instead of one hour back. When they woke up, all the clocks were wrong by TWO hours.
At 40 deg latitude, approximately the middle of the continental U.S., the width of each time zone is approximately 800 miles (the width is a little more for southern latitudes and a little less for northern latitudes). Areas along the western edge of their time zone will see more daylight later into the evening during DST, and areas along the eastern edge of their time zone will see daylight sooner in the morning during standard time.
Nowadays adjusting the clock twice a year is a compromised solution to providing daylight hours to morning commuters and school children as well as evening daylight hours to workers going home in the evening, and enjoying being outdoors more in the summer.
DST is not as needed the closer one gets to the equator (Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa do not use DST), and becomes meaningless the closer you get to the poles. Alaska, with its two time zones, still uses DST, even though parts of the state have daylight all day in some of the summer and no daylight in some of the winter.
If you want to cast blame, it's because of the 23 deg tilt of the Earth's axis as it orbits the Sun. Of course, without that 23 deg tilt, life on Earth might not be possible.
It never really had anything to do with farmers. I have no doubt that it was used as a reasoning to convince urbanites that they were somehow helping rurals but it was never true. Animals cant read a clock but they know what the time really is regardless of what government says and get pissed off when things dont happen on schedule. When it was time for haying you got up in time to be out in the field when the sun was coming up and the day was done after it was too dark to see. They could have set the time to anything they wanted because the clock had nothing to with anything.
Well, then I don’t know. Ask Benjamin Franklin...
True. FL has two time zones, Eastern and Central.
The folks in the Panhandle are always a step behind... /S
Right now - Kabul AFGH is 8.5 hours different from EDT.
It is ~ 8:20 p.m. there...
I’m for DST all year around. Pretending to save daylight serves no purpose.
We tried this once before and people were complaining that their children were waiting on the bus when it was still dark outside, posing a danger to the children.
While technically true if you don’t change your clock life gets a little confusing as literally everything around you will be an hour “behind” you. But sure, you can leave your clock as is.
The bus argument was never valid either.
This far North, and Alberta is farther North than I am, the daylight is less than 9 hours. Unless you happen to live next to the bus stop, not all kids are picked up and dropped at home, and are one of the first on/off then its dark when you head out in the morning and dark when you get home.
For example, my little brother and I had over an hour bus ride in and back so we had to be at the stop before 7 and got back after 4 and that didnt include the walking blocks to/from the stop or add extra buffer time to account for roads/storms that made the departure and arrival irregular.
Dark when we left and dark when we got home. Twiddling with the clock one way or the other only makes the problem worse at the other end of the day.
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