Posted on 06/14/2016 3:09:38 PM PDT by granite
It’s called Zulu time. Or Greenwich Mean Time. If we’re a global community then we’ll all be on the same time.
I’ll call you at 6AM means you call at 6 anywhere in the world regardless if it daylight or nighttime.
Seems to work okay for the military.
Git yer stinky gubmint paw off muh tyam.
I pray this happens. I HATE DST. But I fear that the majority of voters in this state will vote to keep it.
The whole planet should have a single time zone. It’s the same time everywhere, we just call it something different.
just like prop 187 ?
Time zones are an anachronism. They were instituted when railroads were built. Even China only has 1 time zone.
With just 1 or 2 time zones, businesses would boom. Television programming would be more updated.
Wingtips haven’t changed a bit!
No everybody doesn’t hate it. I’d prefer the other way. Make Daylight Savings the year round standard.
“Voters would need to approve change”
Voters here do exactly what Democrats tell them to. Next up, voters will vote to overturn Prop 13. Then they will blame the Republicans that their property taxes went through the roof.
1. Keep current split between DST and standard time
2. Always stay on DST
3. Always stay on standard time
Time zones aren’t an anachronism. They’re dealing with reality. The reality is the sun does NOT go up and down at the same time across the nation. Might work fine in a dictatorship, but in a country where people are actually allowed to think for themselves it’s a stupid idea. You’re either forcing parts of the country to adopt a terrible schedule greatly at odds with the sun schedule, or people will work with the sun and ignore what the clock says.
Business wouldn’t boom, business would be the same, business is 24/7 already and doesn’t care very much about the clocks. TV wouldn’t be more updated, if they didn’t slide their schedule they’d be stupid. You want prime time to happen 4PM to 7PM on the west coast? Does that sound updated? Does that sound even usable?
No, killing time zones is a silly idea. Actually a dumber idea than DST.
How great would that be? It then might make sense for people to vote in Republican mayors and county commissioners so they could have low property taxes.
Those successful tax-lowering mayors and commissioners could then go on to compete to become state assemblymen, senators, and even go after the governorship.
As it now with property taxes held where they are by the state, it is best to vote for a Democrat mayor or commissioner, i.e. someone who will work hard to lure as much state welfare as possible back to his district.
One way or the other is fine. Just stop jerking us around!!
At my place it’s 12 noon at high noon.
Already decided when i retire that i won’t comply any longer - at that point ill set my time by me. ;)
At last! In a world gone mad, finally some good news!
I agree the mythical (but nevertheless tremendously expressive) 1000%!
I never understood why Arizona didn’t go along with the daylight savings until I got a job that sent me down there a lot during the summer. Sun isn’t your friend down there. They should do a “daylight losing time” and set their clocks back an hour in the spring when everyone else goes forward.
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