Posted on 03/12/2023 6:49:09 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
“What purpose is there to DST?”
I thought it was so kids didn’t have to go to school in the dark.
Oddly enough that’s the very reason it was started. The only thing Woodrow Wilson did right.
All the clocks that synchronize time with the Internet via Network Time Protocol (NTP) automatically follow the change. That leaves all the kitchen appliance clocks, the living room clock, and the car clocks as the ones needing a manual change. With one car clock, I just have to turn off DST, no other adjustments required. The rest? Walk around with my cell phone and twist the knob or fiddle the buttons.
One of the tasks on my bucket list is to replace the non-Internet clocks with NTP-synchronized ones. I keep putting this off because of the political noises that comes up every six months about sticking with one or the other offsets fro UTP. Maybe this summer I'll replace the old clocks, if the result is another stalemate.
“because we can do more outside”
You have the exact same number of daylight hours. Don’t be a slave to the clock. Just get outside when the sun is up no matter what the arbitrary clock says.
Drop DST and stay on Standard time.
Rubio is wrong pushing for staying on DST
Why so many, don't you trust just one to give you the correct time?
DST is wonderful, will solve everyones’ anxieties.
Make it year-round.
Then if any anxieties re-appear, jack it up to Double DST.
And, you have 22 more future increments to ‘help’ the citizens’ anxieties.
/not S, but a prediction.
Different rooms, one for each side of double bed, bathrooms wristwatches, stopwatches (which also have a clock feature), cars, appliances with clock-timers. It adds up fast.
Daylight time is all semantics. If you get up an hour earlier or an hour later what is the difference? Adjust your schedule, no problem but there is no need to adjust clocks for no other reason to feel good about it. If people understood that time zones were not created until the later 19th century and adopted in 1883 by the railroads. Most of the country adopted this system around 1895 but it was not standardized officially until the Standard Time Act of 1918 was passed.
The origins of daylight time are mired in lore ranging from Ben Franklin back in 1784 to conserve on walking time and use of candles to some body in New Zealand proposing something like todays DST. What matters is we are stuck in a societal mind game about time. Who cares what the clocks are set at as long as we are on the same sheet. Standard times offer the industrial world a timeline so they can operate efficiently. There is no need to adjust clocks but there is a need to adjust the brains of people as they get locked into a mindset.
BIL was from San Pedro and I've vacationed in Tela Mar many times. I loved the 6:00 am sun rises on the beach
I had to do this for elderly relatives (before they passed) - they all seemed to have clocks that were located very high up - even near the ceiling! I had to either crawl up on the tile to change the clock or get a ladder. That and the other digital clocks that they could never seem to figure out how to move forward an hour (they didn’t need to b/c they had me!). I also wound up the grandfather and cuckoo clocks too - they couldn’t seem to do that either - (I think it was an excuse to get me to come over). The ones in the cars we never could figure out so they stayed on standard time.
I have those cuckoo clocks, one of which is 80 years old and a handmade grandfather clock too that works wonderfully.
Must have changed 12 or more clocks for all of them. I’d change those clocks to this day without complaining if I could have them back!
I think they all use pseudonyms on that site (Not the Bee).
And yes, Edward Teach was “Blackbeard” - caught that right away.
Agree, working a rotating shift can be brutal, I knew people who did this. They shifted every 2 weeks, as I recall.
But there’s a huge difference between shifting one hour and shifting eight hours.
OK, Ok, Lets eliminate DST.
Instead, in the summer when there are more daylight hours we’ll just make everything ONE HOUR EARLIER.
We’ll get up one hour earlier, go to work (or school) one hour earlier, come home one hour earlier.
On weekends, we can go to the baseball game one hour earlier, or go to the park one hour earlier, or go fishing one hour earlier.
We’ll do EVERYTHING one hour earlier.
Then in the fall, we’ll go back to doing everything one hour later.
Do you all feel better now?
I didn’t use a bus growing up, we lived in the boonies. However, I distinctly remember waiting at the bus stop in the dark with my kids when they were little ones. So it doesn’t matter which way they do it. Someone’s kids will be waiting in the dark for those buses.
Stop setting an alarm clock and it won’t matter. What the heck difference could it possibly make on Sunday?!
The sky is falling lol
All my devices that connect to the internet change automatically that’s always nice
Having said all that they should stop with the clock changing because it messes with people’s heads If they aren’t stable
Tempest in a teapot. Let’s have today (3/12/23) be the last time we change our clocks.
A lot of the hooey about this is caused by the fact we change twice a year. How ‘bout we just change once (at 2AM today) more and then leave it be.
Americans are very mobile folks. I wish we could have just one time for the entire country. But our geography argues against that.
“ There is no need to adjust clocks but there is a need to adjust the brains of people as they get locked into a mindset.”
This
It messes with some people’s head
Feel like crap. That hour has messed me up.
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