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To: BenLurkin
“Permanent, year-round standard time is the best choice to most closely match our circadian sleep-wake cycle,”

Standard time is an abomination before God and man. Local solar time only!

Boiled down to its basics, Daylight Saving Time is the government blowing reveille on its bugle an hour early and telling you to get your lazy butt out of bed. If you lived by the sun, you would be out of bed at 4 am and in bed at 8 pm on June 21. DST is an attempt to shift our lives to match the sun more closely than our usual working 9-5 and playing 5-midnight.

You can even look at the standard time boundaries and see they are shifted westward from where they should be strictly geographically. That's because people want late sunlight to match their schedules rather than adjusting their schedules to match the sunlight.

7 posted on 09/03/2020 8:20:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Yes, I’ve noticed that some areas, such as much of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, really should be on Central Time, based on the 75 and 90 degree longitude center points of the Eastern and Central time zones. But for whatever reasons, those states want to be on Eastern time. That has the effect of delaying sunset on those long summer evenings.


13 posted on 09/03/2020 8:27:22 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: KarlInOhio

Hated it when I was a kid having to go to bed at 7:30 while the sun was still bright outside.


22 posted on 09/03/2020 8:33:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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