And no cheating with a 24 hour mean solar day.
Posted on 03/21/2015 3:29:12 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
States across the country are taking a dim view toward daylight saving time. And some say it's time to turn back the clock -- so to speak.
Lawmakers in 10 states have proposed legislation challenging what, for many, is a twice-a-year headache, and one they just endured again earlier this month. The new bills would mostly have states pick a time ... and stay on that time.
"Every time you have the spring forward or fall back, you get in the coffee shops, churches and everybody's complaining about it and all of a sudden it dawned on me it is kind of a hassle," said Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn, who proposed a bill that would place the entire state of Texas on central standard time year-round.
Beginning in 1966, every state in the country except Arizona and Hawaii started adjusting their clocks under the Uniform Act that permanently established daylight saving time nationwide.
States move their clock back one hour in the fall and one hour ahead in the spring in an effort to "save daylight" with later sunrises and sunsets.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Tell the golf courses and little leagues that the moved hour doesn’t matter.
The after school folks and after work outdoor activities will plummet.
Apple vs. Microsoft
Catholic vs. Protestant
DST vs. Standard-Timers
. . . .
I MUCH prefer that to it being pitch black when I get up and (sometimes) go to work. Or having kids waiting for the school bus in the pitch black of a December morning. No thank you! Give me the light in the morning.
Evening sunlight doesn't require a twice a year change.
Government needs to butt out.
Unless one is a statist that loves the government constant meddling.
/johnny
No argument!!
Texas BBQ vs yankee BBQ.
;)
/johnny
Bite your tongue! :-) HATE the idea of it being black as night on fall and winter mornings. I'll be voting against this.
The world is full of whiners....
You have a very strange collection of clocks. Or maybe just a bunch of cellphones and electronic “machines” and very few normal clocks.
Yes. That.
I spotted one rather large error in this thread. If DST were applied to the winter months when we’re not using it now, then sunset would be one hour later, not one hour earlier. It is the very late sunrise that would become the issue.
Personally, I could live with the later December and January sunrise and would prefer year-round DST if we are going with one system.
Me too!I am both lazy and happy with DST, now that I’ve adjusted this time around and finished setting all my non-self adjusting time devices.
To say nothing of the tv schedules whose times are promoted for everyone not just the gripers who apparently think all the other problems in this country have been taken care of.
Like one of the posters said, do you want the sun coming up at 4 a.m. where you live in the summer? The fact that only a few states don't use daylight time should tell us something.
Here in NM, I keep reading how great it would be to have the same time as AZ. Why? Why isn't it great to have the same time as CO or why doesn't AZ join the rest of the MT time zone states?
What BS! Who the heck can argue against having an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day, especially those who work extra hours and rely on that extra daylight to work around the house.........
"Twice-a-year headache"? More like a bunch of busy-bodies with nothing more to complain about..........sheesh!
I’ve looked at all the postings and haven’t seen one that involves race. Boring. So isn’t it racist to want the days to be lighter?
There are more heart attacks and accidents at time change. School children have to stand at dark bus stops, a dangerous situation, and their grades are affected poorly for about two weeks as they try to adjust to the new schedule. Some don’t adjust and fall asleep in school.
We are thrilled that Rep. Flynn is proposing that Texas no longer allow the Federal government to control our time for no good reason. If there is one thing Texas has plenty of, it’s sunlight. We don’t need to get up in the dark for three extra months for that.
I have to adjust:
the clock in my truck, and
the clock in Mrs. R17’s car, and
the two wall clocks, and
the clock on the fireplace mantle, and
the clock on the microwave, and
the clock on the oven, and
the clock on the coffee pot, and
the alarm clock beside the bed, and ...
(Not to mention resetting my biological clock)
Hey, if we were to move it 30 minutes
and then just leave it there, would you be OK with that?
OK...help me out here. It’s been a long day. There was a break in the much needed rain. I went out to work in the garden and try to get the yard ready for summer.
a) Are you sure you meant this post for me?
b) If so...did you forget the /s tag?
My daughter and I noticed that those born during DST prefer it more than those of us born during normal time.
I detest DST and ignore it except for when I have an appt. Around here in northern Idaho, small businesses have winter and summer hours. It works. Those who want more sun time off work can do so.
I live by “chicken time” these days. It goes by natural sunrise to natural sunset. The chickens could not give one cluck what the gummit-dictated time demands. If the sun is up, I better get my narrow, middle-aged backside outside and let them out of the coop and feed them or the ruckus of squawks and Elvis the rooster crowing to be heard in the next state will be deafening.
And no cheating with a 24 hour mean solar day.
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