Posted on 11/03/2013 8:37:40 PM PST by sfwarrior
Extend daylight savings time for the entire year. More useful light in the day and less energy use. Daylight savings time was instituted by congress in 1918 to make better use of daylight hours to benefit the economy and to save energy by having daylight hours during the most productive time of the day. Standard time, when the clocks go back an hour, begins in the first Sunday of November and serves no purpose. Standard time simply means early morning hours are in daylight, however sunset and darkness greet Americans at or about 5pm.
Americans would much prefer to have daylight hours to extend daylight later in the day which will permit more family oriented after-work activities to be enjoyed: daylight for playing outside with the kids, gardening, biking, running etc.
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Why not have the kids start school later?
Since government has the power to change time, why don’t they also include a provision that the temperature can never rise above 80 degrees and never drop below 60 degrees. It would also help if they were to mandate that we would have no more than 6 inches or less than 2 inches of rain in any given month. They could also totally ban hurricanes and tornadoes. Or they could just stop legislating in areas where they have no business.
I agree. This is my first year waking up a kid for school. Every morning she’s been asking me why I am getting her up at “moon time”. Looking forward to having earlier light again.
Leave it at regular time!!! The Sun is still the time keeper!!!
There are very few children “walking to school” in the morning.
There are a lot of folks home in the evening. With their children. They might do things outside.
Leave it at DST. It makes more sense. We can eat our cornflakes in the dark.
Let’s set the day to 25 hours. We can get an extra hour of sleep or an extra hour of work every day. People can be free to choose what they want to do with the extra hour.
(Do I really need to put in the </sarc> tag?)
We do?
I hate DST.I work nights and it takes a toll on me during the summer months.I’m not the only one.
Love the standard time.No petition signing for me
Keep standard time as the only time.
I love Fall... I think it’s because return to standard time fits my internal clock better than DST. My family are early birds....
No, it was Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, acting commander of the 101st during the Battle of the Bulge.
When Gen McAuliffe was told of the Nazi demand to surrender, in frustration he responded, "Nuts!" After turning to other pressing issues, his staff reminded him that they should reply to the German demand. One officer, Lt. Col. Harry Kinnard, noted that McAuliffe's initial reply would be "tough to beat." Thus McAuliffe wrote on the paper, which was typed up and delivered to the Germans, the line he made famous and a morale booster to his troops: "NUTS!" That reply had to be explained, both to the Germans and to non-American Allies. [Nuts can mean several things in American English slang. In this case it signified rejection, and was explained to the Germans as meaning "Go to Hell!".]
I dunno. With all that extra sunshine won’t we have a Global Warming problem?
Safer for children to walk to school or to bus stops in the morning without DST. It’s supposed to get dark in the evening, why fool the internal clock?
Damn, Darn and double darn. My memory is failing me. As soon as I read your reply I knew that I had screwed up. My apologies.
This is an interesting sociological phenomenon, a respect for artificial rules that I find intriguing. I used to make changes in the computer at work and train others to. Then we had to adjust everyone’s work hours. This was usually done by someone who either gets up really early or is ending a long shift late at night.
Today countless newly trained managers will have computer problems that will drive the workplace nuts trying to adjust their computers’ clocks. In a nation based on hourly wages, this affects payroll records too. Gets ugly and leads to disputes about what people are paid. It also is a learning experience for unscrupulous managers, teaches them how to rig hours.
DST is a logistical mess. An entire nation has to be informed and trained, and guess what? A lot of people simply forget or fail to pick up on the broadcasts.
People will show up to work one hour early. Then when we have DST, people will show up one hour late, people will miss appointments, etc.
“My family are early birds....”
Yeah, it’s like having an extra hour. Then you have the ‘pleasure’ of losing an hour with DST. A weird sensation which almost makes the madness worth it.
I understand your admiration of Patton regardless. Mobility in war, a fluid ‘flank’ that confuses the enemy, rapid maneuvers that demoralize your foe. Too bad Patton’s fuel allocation was so small. If I remember right, he only needed a few more days’ worrth of fuel to overrun the Germans at one point while fuel sat idle on the bogged down route through Holland.
Most if not all computers now days automatically update for the time change to/from DST. I don’t see many IT folks running account today changing the time on employee’s computers. As far as time clocks and payroll systems, unless they are ancient systems and use old fashioned analog manual time card punch clocks, all the time and attendance systems I’ve worked with over the last 10 years and I currently am with ADP, they automatically update to/from DST and anyone working an overnight shift on Saturday, the system will automatically account for their time properly. It’s not really that big of a deal.
#7 - LOL...
I don’t like daylight savings time.
If you like twelve hours of daylight, you can keep it.
(Move to the equator.)
I had to re-set my clocks last night because of people like you.
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