Bill to end daylight saving time passes California committee

The Sacramento Bee ^ | JUNE 13, 2016 3:28 PM | BY ALEXEI KOSEFF

[Myrddin]

I love DST in Idaho. Sunsets are at 9:13 PM this time of year. No DST in CA means a 2 hour offset from Idaho in the Summer and CA in a 4 hour offset from the east coast. That makes life pretty damn hard for business collaboration.

Currently, I have a morning staff meeting at 8 AM PDT. I conduct it from my office in Idaho at 9 AM MDT. No DST means I'll be having that meeting at 10 AM MDT and having to work until 7 PM MDT to match my staff on an 8 AM to 5 PM PST schedule. While I'm compelled to be available to support my staff during those hours, other business aren't constrained that way. The CA people will have to get up an extra hour earlier to work with the other states or lose lots of business.

[Myrddin]

December on standard time in Idaho means sunrise at 7:53 AM and earliest sunset of 4:56 PM. Today the sunrise is at 5:50 AM MDT and sunset at 9:10 PM MDT. Having the sun up at 4:50 AM is a complete waste of sunlight for me. I work until 1:30 AM most days. Having sunlight to 9:10 PM means I have useful light after the workday (or at least I can slip in mowing the lawn in my 9 AM to 1:30 AM typical workday.

[Yaelle]

Dump it.

[SkyDancer]

Maybe that could send a trend. DST is stupid and not needed. The libs all come out saying it saves energy blah blah blah. I say more daylight causes global warming since the sun is up longer. (same logic the libs use).

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

This is the only thing they have done right in 30 years, DST is stupid. Daylight in WA at 9:30, stupid.

[semimojo]

Another thing Congress shouldn’t be into.

They really aren't. It's up to the states.

[Walkingfeather]

nope

[discostu]

It’s nice that some people benefit from DST but why should everybody else have to change their clocks so YOU can mow the lawn? I get an extra hour of daylight after work by getting there and leaving early.

[Myrddin]

I'm salaried. There's no getting there early and leaving early. I have to be there whenever required to service customers and staff during working hours. I work from my home office in Idaho with a staff in San Diego, customers in the UK and Germany. Most days I start work at 9 AM (to match 8 AM San Diego) and work until 1 AM. Dinner happens after 9 PM when my wife finishes her workday. Most weeks are 55 to 70 hours. It has been that way for most of the last 30 years. I turn 60 this year. Perhaps I'll slow down to 40 hour weeks and have some play time like most other people.

[discostu]

I’m salaried, there’s most definitely getting there and leaving early. You just have to work somewhere sane, and be sane yourself. As one of my first bosses always drilled into us: nobody’s tombstone says “I should have spent more time at work”. At my company we kick ass, we get the job done, we understand that if we’re working over time it’s because something went wrong and we don’t do that again, and that let’s us have lives and stuff.