Posted on 03/12/2023 4:17:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The whole country should be on Greenwich Mean Time. GMT just like radio rooms across the world are all the broadcast everything is scheduled around GMT when it’s 0800 and Greenwich England it’s 0800 everywhere, adjust to your sunlight accordingly.
I hate daylight savings time. With standard time, I get up with the sun. Now, it will be like getting up at midnight.
Standard Time year round would be healthier for most people and for the economy. People would be healthier and more civil. Fewer auto accidents and many other benefits.
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If someone wants to go to work earlier and then go home earlier (more sunlight time), then get the company to change the work hours.
just change the start times for school. sept & oct start at 8
nov dec jan feb start at 9
mar apr may and june start at 8
yes it’s a safety issue for kids running around in the dark.
all other outdoor activity should just adjust to their needs.
how difficult is this?
Will this be the last year . . . ?
If it is, it won’t be a full year.
We will have permanently lost 1 hour.
Multiply that by the citizens (and non citizens).
I get about 49,000 years.
49,000 years stolen by the govt., or by some legislators trying to save the sunlight or whatever.
What is the dollar value of those years? Would that have bailed out SVB? Will we ever know?
How much Nanci Ice Cream are we talking here????
They did this back in the early 70s when Nixon was president. When winter came the mornings didn’t get sunshine for hours and school kids were waiting for school busses in darkness. Parents complained and year round DST ceased. What should be done is year round standard time.
That’s wild.
But it was too early for me, and too early for Carter.
See my reply no. 66. It was during Nixon’s administration, not Carter.
I’ve been in Arizona for 18 years now and I have been enjoying the absence of DST.
WE DON’T NEED TO FOOL OURSELVES ABOUT WHAT TIME IT IS!
From the wonderful Tanglewood 1971 concert on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgF_ycCmF18
Or if we’re a man or a woman, for that matter.
Make that 1970
I vote to keep the current time all year round.
IMHO Daylight time is more useful in the evening than in the morning.
Your experience and opinions may vary.....
How about we change it to stick with “real” standard time and this year’s “fall back” is the last time we change our clocks instead?
I am not a morning guy - I tend to sleep in the mornings. I prefer DSL all year round. That way, I can mow my lawn later in the evening, in case I don’t get around to mowing before sunset.
Also, I am too old to go trick & treating in the fall, which is why I thought DSL was developed in the first place... before it goes dark too soon.
It’s amazing that we need the government to do this for us...
I remember going to school in the dark at some point in the 70’s.
I just looked it up - Nixon was president when “permanent DST” was tried in 1974. The experiment was unpopular because children were going to school in the dark.
“War Time” and “Peace Time”
In 1942, at the height of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reintroduced the measure, instituting year-round Daylight Saving Time in the US. Referred to as “War Time,” DST was in force continuously from February 9, 1942 to September 30, 1945.
During this time, the US time zones were called “Eastern War Time,” “Mountain War Time,” “Central War Time,” and “Pacific War Time.” After the surrender of Japan in mid-August 1945, the time zones were relabeled “Peace Time.”
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/daylight-saving-usa.html
So, just move to the western edge of your time zone. As if people don’t always have to adjust.
“Even the dog doesn’t care that much.”
I could never figure out how my dog’s knew that the daylight savings time 1700 was the time to eat when the Standard Time 1700 was when they used to eat.
How could they tell?
I can only assume that they were keying off something in the house and I never figured out what that could possibly be.
It’s like when you come home at 1600 in the afternoon every day and it 1555 they go outside to wait for your car to pull into the driveway even after the time change.
I have no idea what people bitch about when it comes to day light savings time. I am 63 years old and never even gave the change a thought. Shut up already and get on with your gender change operations.
“I HATE switching clocks twice a year... either way. Even getting the extra hour of sleep in fall messes with my bio-clock.”
I spent about 5 years living close to the equator. The sun rose at 6:30 in the morning and it’s set at 18:30 in the afternoon 12-hour days, 12 hour nights year round. No need for a time change.
The good thing about changing your clocks twice a year is that the batteries usually fail when you change your clocks and then you have to go back over everything and change it out batteries on top of that!
My next question is; when do you change out the batteries in your fire alarms?
I do it yearly and it’s changed from April Fool’s Day to Cinco de Mayo. I used to go by the time change but they’ve dicked around with that date so it became unpredictable.
I WANT ORDER IN MY LIFE! 🤪
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