Posted on 03/23/2015 7:18:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A LOT of people ... especially clocks in cars
Ummm, if it bothers them, why don’t they just adjust them?
WHEREAS People have not suddenly gotten smarter. AND
WHEREAS Benjamin Franklin, who invented daylight saving time, was smarter than the average person.
THEREFORE we should not get rid of Daylight Saving Time.
I say we all just adjust to Zulu time!
Seriously, I am very global in my career the time changes play havoc with my meetings twice a year.
Good.
It’s stupid and annoying. I lived in Indiana for 8 years, and so no drawbacks at all to not dealing with this silly clock-changing nonsense.
Changing the clocks is a minor pain twice a year.
Why not just stay on daylight time year round?
Or move clocks a half hour as a one time adjustment to split the difference, and then leave them there permanently?
I would be interested in any studies about energy use. The reason we now are on daylight time for almost 8 months of the year is because it is supposed to save energy. Anyone know if that’s really true?
It's a Long, thin state,
It's already got 2 time zones
EDT just confuses things more
I'm not fond of the 1/2 hour shift, but states on the edges of the boundaries might want to consider switching to a different time zone before fixing the clocks once and for all, based on the better hour for year-round purposes.
The whole thing was ridiculous from the start.
One other aspect to this is that the farther north you go, the less daylight there is, no matter what. So northerners might be less willing to give up daylight saving time - we have less daylight to begin with, and therefore fewer daylight hours available for leisure activities.
Ah, you beat me to the point by two minutes. It IS different the further north you go.
I remember that. Heading out to school in the pitch darkness. Mothers HATED it!
I'm pretty sure this happened when Nixon was president. There was an Oliphant cartoon that showed some kids waiting for the bus in the dark with one of them saying: "I'd impeach him for daylight savings alone."
It would be nice if the Sun was near the local meridian at noon.
And rightly so. Down here in the oil patch only five miles from the Texas border, daylight doesn't arrive in winter until nearly 7 a.m., which is 8 a.m. across the state line. Some school buses start around 7:15 which would be in the dark if NM went to "Texas Time" in winter. Another problem would be commerce and commuting between Las Cruces and El Paso. The state boundary down there includes bedroom cities on the NM side of the border - it would be a mess anyway as you still would have to adjust your schedule (not your time) twice a year.
Indiana now observes Daylight Savings Time.
They did not when I lived just over the Ohio border from Fort Wayne (and the local radio stations would have me an hour early for everything in the summer)
The long sun days of summer is payback for the short winter days. Who in the heck in WA is proposing this?
I must have taken all the common sense with me when I left, I guess. :)
I don’t know if anyone is proposing that Washington go off DST.
Just a fact of life ... why does that bother you ?
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