Posted on 11/04/2018 10:14:48 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Everyone not named Franklin D. Roosevelt hates Daylight Saving Time. The constant back and forth is confusing, especially for those who have an early Sunday morning commitment. The Standard Time Act of 1918 gave the federal government power to oversee national time zones. That power was extended with the passage of the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which allows the Department of Transportation (DOT) to set Daylight Saving Time for the entire country. Why DOT? Because "time standards are important for many modes of transportation," or something like that. Despite decades of observance, however, more and more Americans are rebelling against the pointless concept.
Arizona, Hawaii, and territories like American Samoa and Puerto Rico have broken free of oppressive time changes. If a state wishes to follow suit, including those who choose to keep their state in the Daylight Saving Time zone year-round, it must seek approval from DOT.
In March, Florida signed off on the appropriately named Sunshine Protection Act. But thanks to the federal government, residents must wait on Congress to change federal law in their favor. They, too, will begrudgingly observe the time change this year.
Californians hoping to ditch the practice are planning to vote yes on Proposition 7, yet must similarly wait for congressional approval. Massachusetts is also considering a change to its laws, with more states following suit. The federal government still reserves the ability to deny a state's request.
As more states begin to rebel against changing their clocks twice a year, an important question remains: Why do we still do this inane practice?
The century-old justifications related to farming, war, and light bulb conservation no longer apply in the modern world. We do this simply because we've always done it, except, of course, we haven't always done it. In the case of Massachusetts, actual harm results from the practice. As you wind your clock back this weekend, and then find yourself gassed earlier than you should be come Monday afternoon, blame Washington, D.C.
Stay with the current time system, BUT for those who can't drive correctly when they lose an hour and for those who can't handle the stress, make the change on Friday night. This will give them two days to get used to it.
Also, start work 30 minutes later on Monday and get out of work 30 minutes later. I find it hard to believe losing 30 minutes two days is going to make a big difference.
The days getting rapidly shorter in the fall messes me up more than a clock that I rarely look at.
Rut, roh!
Zuri was late for church.
Sux to be Zuri but....like a good little PROG, his opinion is foisted upon the rest of us.
We should all agree with Zuri to make Zuri feel better about being late for church.
What a putz. Move on...we’ve got a booming economy to watch after.
100% with you on this. Standard time is dark when I get to work, and dark when I leave work. Never see the sun during the week. Would absolutely love it to be Daylight Savings Time year around. That way I would at least see the sun on my commute home. Better than nothing.
DST ruined the drive-in movie industry.
My uncle, a bachelor farmer, had those problems, and more. He hated daylight savings time, but he had an easy solution. He simply stayed on standard time year-round.
He said that there was only one problem with that: "I have to remember that the feed store closes an hour early in the summer."
That’s my opinion. I don’t care which, just pick one. It wreaks havoc in the internal clocks of animals and young children.
I have no problem with daylight savings time.
DST for ever!
I never did like leaving home in the dark and getting home the same way. I’d go all week and never see the place in the sunlight on winter standard time.
Now I get up when I feel like it and go to sleep the same but try to keep reasonable hours.
I wonder if car and work accidents increase after the change.
Let it be so!
Does the rest of the globe reset their time like we do. If not wouldn’t it be more wise to set our time to correspond?
Not enough daylight to milk cows, slop hogs, and gather eggs from the hen house
I’ve never known a farmer to care what the clock says - suns up, they’re already doing all the work. Sun goes down, the finish what they’re working as safely as possible, and go in to warsh up for supper. The clock is just a way to communicate to others how long a task took, or what time they started.
PrairieLady2 - my body is naturally on ‘standard time’, and for the 9 months we’re on ‘savings time’, I am miserable and cannot get started, then feel as if I’m running being for everything. During the ‘standard time’ months, I wake naturally (even before the alarm goes off), go to bed/sleep without problems, etc.
Mr. Mohasky - I understand about being dark when you go to/from work, but here’s the rub. It’s dark then anyway. maybe you can convince your boss to change the shifts to an hour different. Instead of legislating changes for the entire country, think small, and optional. Why? Because that’s what we’re supposed to be about - less of “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS”, and more of “You can do this, or that, or that, or nothing”.
wintertime - Children struggle with the jump forward, yes, but seem to have no problem going back to ‘standard’ time - at least my three don’t.
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