Posted on 03/23/2015 7:18:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t care if it is Standard Time or DLST... just leave it the same all the time. Pick one and leave it alone. We have enough change already without this kind of Tom foolery.
DLST in the winter makes little difference since the screwl buses start running as early as 0530 around here, a semi-urban area! Most people commute in the dark in the morning and the same in the evening. I used to go for days without seeing the house in the daylight. Standard time did no good at all for daylight hours in the winter. For me leaving DLST on year ‘round would be just fine but so would Standard time... just pick one and leave it alone.
I’m tired of change for its own sake and yes, stay off my lawn as well.
Doesn’t bother me, but it seems like an anachronism in 2015.
DLST or reseting clocks ... or both ?
Working folks that want to spend more quality time with their family’s love DST...
...don’t mess with it because the EBT card carrying perfect voter base finds it a ‘hassle’ to reset their clocks.
It’s about time...
Both, yeah—though I was thinking of clock setting as an issue.
Then again, I’m not too handy, so I stay away from older, used cars and the like.
I'd rather be on MST year-round. Even losing my hour of daylight in the evening.
Come on Florida! Do it. Spring time change messes me up for 2 weeks. Hate getting up in the dark.
Not true at all. In the summer, there is more daylight in the north (Barrow, Alaska has 80 days of continuous sunlight). The closer you get to the equator, the more uniform the days are year-round (around 12 hours of daylight, regardless of time of year).
I always thought it was a hoot to fly from Phoenix to Las Vegas in the summer because you “arrive in Vegas before you left Phoenix” thanks to the fact that AZ does not ever go on DLST and the flight is less than an hour!
Yes, every place on earth has the same hours of daylight a year. At the equator it is evenly distributed—12 hours every day. At the poles it is bunched together—6 months of the sun being continuously above the horizon followed by 6 months when the sun is continuously below the horizon.
Have it year round or don’t have it. It’s just big government screwing with us because they can.
I remember that! There were concerns that kids would get hit by cars. But I thought the argument was silly because schools changed attendance times to go to school earlier in the morning so that they could do a split day. Higher grades attending earlier and going home earlier, lower grades going in after lunch and staying later, so they came home in the dark.
I personally LOVE DST. It works very well for my personal internal clock, and I’m one of those who wishes they’d leave it that way. More of us would be able to enjoy the sunrise if it occured later in the morning lol!
I have a gut feeling about it.
That would mean you really went through a time-warp as AZ and Vegas have the same time during summer months! You scenario only works during the winter.
(And your scenario displays completely what the problems would be if a bunch of other states decided to either not have DST or have year-round DST. Confusion would abound.)
In the summer, Phoenix and Las Vegas are on the same time. Since AZ doesn't observe DST, when the clock moves forward for the Pacific Time Zone, it catches AZ at MST. Both are UTC -7 hours right now. It's the winter where AZ is an hour ahead, thus the arriving before leaving can occur.
FMCDH(BITS)
If you want more sunshine in the day, wake up earlier. If you want to avoid morning, like I do, sleep in. Don’t make the entire planet endure this crap.
Go Illinois
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