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Daylight Saving Time: Is the Clock Running Out on Yearly Time Changes?
People via MSN ^ | 3/11/22 | Jason Duaine Hahn

Posted on 03/12/2022 4:04:19 PM PST by Libloather

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To: gnarledmaw

In that case, it’s a good thing that I’m not going on tour or trying to polish up a skit for YouTube. I merely made my standard argument against going to year-round DST, and added some info from Traverse City, MI’s sunrises and sunsets.


101 posted on 03/14/2022 1:29:47 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: j.havenfarm
It may be a mild imposition, but it serves a good purpose here in California. You see, during May and June it starts to get light outside a little before 4:30 a.m. PDT, and it's bright sunshine by a little after 5 a.m. If not for DST, this would happen an hour earlier ... with it starting to get light outside at 3:30 in the damn morning!!

Cheers!

102 posted on 03/14/2022 1:35:48 PM PDT by glennaro (Do not live your life in irrational fear. Live unmasked, unvaxxed, untested; unbullied and unafraid.)
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To: Libloather
"Hate it"

Hate it all you want, but Xiden will sign a House/Senate GOP-passed "Sunshine Protection Act" as a comity in a pre-election year.

There are 18 states ready to go and at least another 10 with bills in the hopper.

103 posted on 03/14/2022 1:36:20 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: Nuc 1.1
The extra hour of daylight due to DST is responsible for global warming.

Science!

104 posted on 03/14/2022 1:37:36 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: DuncanWaring
"Where I live, on the western edge of the time zone, it’s light in June ‘til 10:00 PM."

And it's f'ing glorious!

105 posted on 03/14/2022 1:40:45 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

I know. I was trying to rib you in a way that wouldnt come across as some sort of assault. Im at a similar latitude to Travers City and I know that for those kids riding the bus twiddling with the clock doesnt make a difference. Its dark in the morning and if you live along the lakes the cloud cover persistent during most of the winter means its going to be dark when youre getting home. clock twiddling doesnt create more hours of the day either. Time to just stop all this foolishness. Its not the hour reduced or added that is really the issue whether some mind it or not, the issues we should be considering are economy and health and it fails in both.


106 posted on 03/14/2022 1:53:00 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Curiously, if it was abolished, the “crack of dawn” here in Nashville during June would be at or around 3:50am. The last bit of sunlight goes around 8:45pm (CDT). I’m thinking of splitting the difference and bumping it a half-hour. Still, I think we should probably “adjust” the whole country to make it optimum for everyone along longitudinal lines as opposed to state/county.


107 posted on 03/14/2022 2:43:44 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

As someone who one ran frantically to the departure gate at the Memphis airport only to find out when I got to the gate that my flight left not in ten minutes but in 70 minutes because, unbeknownst to me, Memphis (unlike East Tennessee) is in Central Time, I can’t say that I’m a fan of states (much less counties) being divided between time zones. And if the crack of dawn in Nashville is around 4:50 a.m. in June *even with Daylight Saving Time*, then clearly all of Tennessee should be on Eastern Time (along with all of MI, IN, KY and FL and the state of AL); New England probably should be on Atlantic Time.


108 posted on 03/14/2022 4:20:59 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: Mr.Unique

YES!!!


109 posted on 03/14/2022 6:25:01 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

It’s funny that you have to drive for 2 days straight to the west (to the New Mexico border) to get to Mountain Time. Tennessee, of course, is a long state (about 8-9 driving hours from Memphis to Mountain City excluding the hour time change). The eastern part clearly should be, as it is, in Eastern Time. How far west that should extend is a debatable issue.

You probably know that Newfoundland has its own time zone, a half hour ahead of Atlantic Time, which has to be confusing as hell to adjust for.


110 posted on 03/15/2022 7:10:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yeah, the Newfies have their own time zone—although maybe they share it with Venezuela now. I can’t imagine scheduling a conference call among people from Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.


111 posted on 03/16/2022 12:12:24 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

OK, I looked it up, and Newfoundland is in UTC -3:30 while Venezuela was (from 2009-2017) in UTC -4:30, so Newfoundland always had its time zone to itself. The changes in time zone in Venezuela are a microcosm of how Communism works:

“In December 2007, Hugo Chávez changed, via decree, the official meridian to meridian 67° 30’ W, the same used between 1912 and 1965. As result, the standard time was UTC−04:30, half an hour behind the previous time which eventually led to an increase in energy consumption.

On 15 April 2016, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela would reverse Chávez’s time change due to the shortage of electricity (the country’s hydroelectric power has been hit by low water levels[1]) in Venezuela, with a return to UTC−04:00 which began on 1 May 2016 at 03:00:00.”


112 posted on 03/16/2022 12:17:38 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT

As a kid I loved it if it was dark in the mornings! 🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛


113 posted on 03/21/2022 1:51:57 AM PDT by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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To: Impy

As a kid, some of the first-graders had to carry switchblades. To fight off coyotes.

Some of them were werewolves


114 posted on 03/21/2022 4:08:27 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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