Posted on 03/15/2022 11:57:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
I like permanent Daylight Savings. I hate it getting dark at 4:30pm in the winter.
I’ve heard it started during World War I, and was supposed to save energy, by shifting around when people were awake and active and using energy.
I’m good with the way it was before Bush shifted it by two weeks. I hate when it’s still dark at 8am. It’s also nice to see Christmas lights at 5pm. I guess people think there is an extra hour of day light that just needs to be legislated in.
Yep. Also, if you look at a time zone map of the US, you’ll see my part of Kentucky jut out much further west than other parts. Towns south of us are in the Central time zone.
I’m retired now, so it doesn’t matter, but I would rather have had the extra daylight after work during my younger years. It would have been especially nice when I was a kid, playing outside.
My Dad loved it in Upstate NY. They could finish work and have time to get 18 holes in before dark.
Good question. Instead of school starting at 7:45 or 8 am in the winter, start at 8:45 or 9 am, so kids aren’t in the dark waiting for the bus.
Though places in the far north, such as northern Maine, upper Peninsula of Michigan, the Dakotas, etc. will have much shorter winter days, no matter what happens with daylight time.
As it should, since western Arizona are only about 160 miles from the beach on the west coast.
When my kids were still in school, in the winter hated that by the time they got home from school and had a snack it was dark. No time to do anything outside.
I love daylight savings because you can have dinner and still have time to go for a walk in the daylight.
They don’t need to change if time adjustment is left alone. What does it achieve? In my opinion nothing.
NO, NO, NO, just leave it standard time, DST does not save energy, just shifts the hottest time of the day hour later.
“Shoulda split the difference. There are other countries that are a half hour off.”
Not sure that would exactly be wise as 90% of other countries are full hour, with the only really consequential exception being India.
Might be a recipe for chaos.
Good points. In looking at the meridians on which time zones are supposed to be centered, then Indiana, most of Ohio, probably all of Michigan, should be on Central Time. But probably politicians in those states decided to be on Eastern Time. Why? To be in lockstep with New York and Washington? Some time zone boundaries don’t seem to make sense, based on the meridians on which the time zones are supposed to be centered.
I think we should set the clocks back an hour every week until we get back to 2016 and can watch President Trump taking office.
I go with #20.
Those who prefer standard time aren’t just being contrarian; they’re being realists about natural time and internal clocks. With or without DST, it’s still lighter at the end of the day, just not an extra hour lighter. Why can’t DST fans understand that?
This author seems to think that his opinion is shared by all. What a tiny mind.
Oh please let it be so!
It is good the nitwits found something to do besides constantly eff things up. I don’t care what the crisis or issue, better to do this than other things.
It took far too long. A more sensible thing would have been a 1/2 hour change but no matter, I’ll be happy for longer sunlit evenings. Now that I am retired the lingering darkness in the morning will be nice for sleeping in on cold days.
Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to screw things up....................
Adjusting clocks doesn’t make the season not happen.
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Oh yes it does, we are fighting Climate Change.
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