Posted on 01/11/2017 6:02:30 PM PST by SMGFan
BOSTON – Lacking authority to change the laws of physics to allow more sunlight on the darkest days of winter, a special commission is instead considering whether Massachusetts should change the laws of man and observe daylight saving time year-round. If adopted, Massachusetts residents wouldn't have to set their clocks back in November and forward in March, as most of the U.S. does. Benefits of having daylight saving time throughout the year could include energy savings and less seasonal depression, proponents suggest
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In original timekeeping, sunrise was 6:00 a.m.
In more sophiticated areas, noon was noon.
But noon shifts with longitude. 60 miles is about 1 minute.
The railroads needed standard times to run on schedule, and that is how we got the time zones.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-history.html
“————which means the sun rises later in the morning and sets later in the evening.”
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MA pols are idiots.
Some kids will now wait for school buses in the dark.
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“More heart attacks happen on the time change day then any other day.”
Maybe that’s because one of those days has 25 hours in it. Stats are math.
Nope,train schedules.Do your homework on the history of DST.
I’ve wondered about that. Doesn’t seem to work that way though.
There is talk of abandoning leap seconds, and maybe periodically (like once every few hundred years) having a leap hour. UTC mainly aids navigators who need a good approximation to UT, but correction tables for whatever passes for civil time to UT could be published and distributed. With modern computers, it should be a non-issue.
Time will tell.
lol
But Mass is the intellectual center of the universe! It should be allowed to keep DST if it wants to. Besides being almost the easterly most easterly of the contiguous states, during the winter it is screwed out of any daylight outside 9 to 5 working hours.
The entire US did this during the arab oil embargo back in the 70s. And it took about a month for people to realize that this put kids going to school on the streets well before sunrise, and we changed back due to the potential for traffic accidents.
Surely there is at least someone in the MA government who is old enough to remember this. Well, maybe not.
But I can promise that the problem has not changed, and that it is still a dumb idea.
You don’t seem to understand! The Cradle of Deranged Liberal Snowflakes lives in it’s own reality! We are “Spethial”.
There is no Law here just “feelings” and SJW bull sh*t based on absolutely Nothing that survives in Reality.
How dare you question our Participation trophies!!!
Never Gonna Happen.
Therefore, I will predict that the fewest heart attacks happen on the 23 hr day.
I remember that very well. Waiting for the school bus in total darkness.
lolol
If MA goes to year-round DST, NY must also adopt DST. The other New England states are irrelevant.
The whole idea is insane for stock market/, planes, trains, banking Industries unless the entire East Coast drops DST.
There are so many Stupid people here...why can’t they all move to CA.?
True, but pushing the clocks ahead an hour just means it will be the same time as it is in Indiana for kids waiting for buses.
God determines when the sun comes up and goes down. Clock changing games is man’s and govt’s way to play god and once again change the true God’s plan, now isn’t it.
Not sure about the MI’s...but I’d agree...just make a 1/2 hour change this spring and leave it be
NOON is when the sun is the highest point in the sky. Daylight savings time shifts that one hour.
I never liked DST. I remember discussions in the 70s gas crunch.
All energy saving promises turned out to be completely unfounded in studies after implementation.
It comes down to if you want more daylight when you get home from work or not. Probably a muslim conspiracy to keep them from leaving work early.
I personally dislike DST but if they do anything, I’d say move it a half hour and leave it.
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