Posted on 03/12/2015 10:29:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
I always liked having an extra hour of sunshine in the evening with my kids or doing yard work. We could stay out past 9 instead of going inside at 8. That’s a benefit, regardless of saving energy or not.
*rme*
“Too many folks in society now do not know how to set a clock or a watch.”
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Reminds me of a girl I used to work with and she once said that she hated getting out of bed at 2AM to reset her clocks.
Needless to say that was greeted with stunned silence in the office.
True story.
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Even if daylight savings time once saved energy (doubtful), it only “saves” about a tenth that amount now — because of the energy-efficient light bulbs we’ve all been forced to use.
Hear, hear!!! My body normally gets me up at 5 no problem. This week is hell, I've been waking up at 6, and I have to be at work at 7. It'll be a couple of weeks to adjust completely.
I have to say that I really love led bulbs. I don't think they needed to outlaw the tungsten bulbs as we would all have switched once they became cost effective. They are there now.
Another great reason, we are glad we don’t live in CA anymore. AZ does not have daylight savings time and we don’t miss the bothersome adjustment.
Not me!
We should do the same in Texas. With the exception of El Paso, it’s 90+ degrees when the sun goes down after 8. At 11 PM it’s still 90 degrees. I like the way AZ does it.
Couldn’t agree more! Keep it light longer and forget Standard Time. Maybe those who do not live near the coast won’t understand, but longer days during the warmer months means business. Especially to coastal/beach locations. I look forward to DST every year since I’ve been a kid. That’s a lot of years. Only a few people who can’t adjust to a time shift twice a year become the biggest whiners.
Same could be said of most government regulations. They get introduced to "fix" some issue or other, but they don't go away when the issue does — because the issue is an excuse, not a reason.
Global cooling global warming catastrophic climate change is that kind of issue.
Already been tried. 1974.
Didn't survive the cries of the outraged mommas whose babies had to wait on the street corner for school buses in the dark from Nov. to Jan.
LOL
Then let people go to work early and get off late based on agreements with their own bosses. Someone wants to get off at 3, then go to work at 6.
Dark at 7 in the summer? I’m at a lower latitude than you, and it doesn’t get dark until 9:30.
Those who hate daylight savings time love darkness more than light. ;-)
For many, going to bed earlier either isn’t an option or does nothing to mitigate the effects of the government-mandated schedule gerrymandering. I don’t have to deal with DST now but I have lived in places where I did, and it’s a BS proposition to force on 99.9% of the population.
Maybe not you, but plenty of people complain because it goes from sunset at 5:30 to suset at 4:30. They usually are the same bunch that complain in the spring.
Ever been in the barn when it approaches feeding time?
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