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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There might be a health benefit to getting people off their couches a couple of times a year to change their clocks.
LOL, my clocks are still flashing “12:00”.
What is wrong with the natural time of the earth as measured by when the sun is as approximately straight over head at your location, making the midpoint of the earth’s rotation, or as we generally call it, noon. And all other hours fall ahead of or behind noon. It is economic myth that any benefits of “day light savings time” are not offset on the other end - what “daylight” is added early in the day is taken away later in the day.
To me, the time of sunrise is significant because I like to time my morning walk to that. I do not like to walk my neighborhood in the dark as it has no sidewalks and cars have trouble seeing me. Having darker mornings (due to extending Daylight Savings time year round) means that at my latitude, it will be too dark to take my morning walk 3-4 months out of the year because I'll have to be at work before sunrise.
The mornings here in Connecticut are already very dark and I'm looking forward to Nov 6 where I will get an extra hour of daylight in the morning.
Sunrise in Boston this morning was at 6:50AM. The sun rose in Fort Wayne, Indiana almost a full hour later -- at 7:46. When you get to areas like western Ohio and eastern Indiana, you never hear all those concerns about the sun setting too early during Standard Time. Instead, their bigger issue is having kids wait for school buses in the dark early in the morning.
AND, the sun set last nite here in Boston at 6:12pm
You could say the same thing about every business establishment and government office, too. And changing the hours of operation could be done WITHOUT changing the clocks at the start and end of DST.
“Correct. I lived in Columbus, GA for four years. Five miles west, over the river, Phenix City, AL was technically on Central Time. The Post Offices obeyed that, but nobody wlse did, because most people in the area lived on Columbus’ ET, as Columbus is 20 times the size of Phenix City.”
I was a Navy recruiter in that area for a couple of years on the Alabama side. Part of my territory was Phenix City north to Lanett. Many people worked at the Pepperell mills which operated on Georgia time. I always had to make sure which time zone we were talking about when making appointments. Most people who lived on the state lines were on Eastern time.
The heck we don’t.
Dark at 4:30, actually, not 5PM, is no fun at all.
I'd rather have the extra daylight in the summertime, when I can be on my deck grilling a steak and sipping on a beer.
Maine gets darker earlier because it’s because it’s farther north, not because it’s farther east.
“That is interesting (and does sound very annoying!).”
Every appt has to be verified as Eastern or Central. Service people always state Eastern or Central. It is a PITA!
According to insurance statistics heart attacks, strokes and accidents spike for a week or so after each time change.
I kind of like the ancient way of time keeping. Day and night were divided into 12 equal parts based on sunrise and sunset. The length of hours vary every day and night.
The Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act but not the House therefore things continue the way they have been.
Further east makes a difference, too. Compare the sunrise and sunset times between Bangor Maine and the very western edge of the Eastern time zone. It’s ridiculous.
I can’t wait. I hate daylight savings time. During standard time, I can finally get up with the sun.
Half hour time zones would make some sense.
Interesting.
My iPhones don’t change Time Zone until rebooted.
The 2019 truck changes time within feet of the Zone @80 mph.
YMMV
Either way...you only get so many hours of daylight. Playing with the clock changes nothing. It’s just being “stuck on stupid”.
It’s hell realigning my sundials twice a year...
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