If I were king I’d start the work day at 9 or 10 and end it at 3 or 4. I’m betting we’d see a minimal drop in productivity and see a big improvement in quality of life. We only work sunup to sundown because that’s how great granddaddy set it up.
So Congress is about to vote on time change
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He literally ran on bringing this issue up. He's doing everything he said. Keep listening to your mpr while it lasts though.
If you're going to change to DST year-round and then adjust school/work hours, how is that any different than just keeping it like it is now?
I believe Arkansas tried it as well and it didn't last long
The only survey I have to go on is being there and experiencing it and it really sucked . Especially for school children and their parents .
"Good lord. Even 8:00-8:30 sunrise here would suck. People who say they want this haven't really thought it through."
I LIVED through it and YES it really did suck .
"Daylight savings" time really isn't saving any daylight. It just shifts the part of the day we see the daylight. Yes, it stays daylight longer into the evening, but it also takes longer for the sun to rise in the morning. I really don't want to go to work at 8am in darkness and I sure wouldn't want kids standing at the bus stop in total darkness at 7am. If we're going to keep a set time, it should be standard time. But I don't see what's wrong with the way it is now.
Once you retire clocks and calendars become kinda irrelevant. I highly recommend it.
Leave it. We tried this. It wasn't liked. Fix something that needs fixing.
Surprised they’re not renaming it Daylight ‘Justment Time and making it permanent.**
Seriously, I understand the logic of leaving it up to the states because it is so location dependent.
Logistically, it’s a CF-in-waiting.
Seriously, I understand the logic of leaving it up to the states because it is so location dependent.
Logistically, it’s a CF-in-waiting.
This was tried by Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. It was going to be a temporary two year deal during the energy crisis. It was hated so much that Congress ended it after one year. I remember getting to school in the morning while it was still dark, and I lived next door.
You're the dumbest person I've ever seen on the internet.
Oh yeah, and if I only worked those hours then exactly how and when would I have all this time to read Six Packs Peak???**
He's doing everything he said and in some cases doing things many times over just because he can. I've lost track of the number of times he's opened up the Strait of Hormuz.
Well, here is the weird part about our current federal law: States can currently choose to not participate in DST, but they can NOT choose full time DST.
States can be on standard time full time, or they can change their clocks in time with everyone else, but they cannot be on daylight time year round.
Sounds like the proposal is to open up the third option. I think I prefer nation wide DST, while giving States on the border of a time zone the option of switching time zones. So, AZ would switch from Mountain Standard Time to Pacific Daylight Time, and the net effect would be no change to their clocks.
I only know all this because Georgia has a pending bill to switch to Atlantic time and opt out of DST. The net effect would be the same as year round Eastern Daylight time. The bill is on hold, waiting for Congress to act.
I still say, let's just move our clocks forward a half hour and be done with it.
DST in the winter mornings just doesn’t work well in most places.
Just change the damn clock in the early Spring and late Fall.
Not that hard to do.
Just change the damn clock in the early Spring and late Fall.
Not that hard to do.
insert <not this sh*t again> meme here*
It was 1974. So it was Nixon When we went on DST in '74 it was supposed to just stay that way.
I only remember because I started 5th grade that year and I had to ride a bus to a new school. My bus came like 90 minutes before school started, so I was waiting in the dark just about every day. Switching to Standard time would not have saved me. I couldn't figure out all the complaints about kids going to school in the dark, since that was just normal for me.
DST all year would work well in the 'Sip, not sure about other states.
More sunlight in Winter afternoons, sign me up. I'm at work prior to the sun rising in the winter, so another hour of darkness there would be fine.
More sunlight in Winter afternoons, sign me up. I'm at work prior to the sun rising in the winter, so another hour of darkness there would be fine.
Try telling kids raised on a farm that sentence. It's all in what you are raised doing and allowed to get away with.
Bro, this means I can sleep until 6am and still get to the deer stand before sun up.
After they moved the time change two weeks to the good several years ago I like it where it is. A couple of decades ago it was about 50/50 and that was terrible. Now I like it.
As a massive bow hunter and turkey hunter I can’t imagine not shooting a deer until almost 6:30 pm and having to find and clean it and not getting to my supper and whiskey until almost 9 pm.
I like it getting dark at 5:20 in the dead of winter and being done early still.
I’m dying to climb a tree I case you couldn’t tell.
As a massive bow hunter and turkey hunter I can’t imagine not shooting a deer until almost 6:30 pm and having to find and clean it and not getting to my supper and whiskey until almost 9 pm.
I like it getting dark at 5:20 in the dead of winter and being done early still.
I’m dying to climb a tree I case you couldn’t tell.
Good info. I live in NE Alabama which is apparently the latest sunrise possible by this map, and I still couldn’t be more excited about permanent DST. It personally just doesn’t matter to me what time the sun comes up. The thing few people mention is that this latest sunrise time would be on like December 21st or something, when everyone is mostly off work or school due to the holidays or holiday travel anyways. It would be earlier in like early December and early / mid January when folks are on either side of the solstice.
I get the argument about kids having to get on a school bus when it’s dark, etc., but in a lot of metro areas that is already the case now just due to the size of the schools and the lengths of the bus routes. It always annoys me when people are against change because “then XYZ would be a problem”, when XYZ is already a problem.
Uh, NE Alabama is the earliest possible sunrise by that map. So no wonder it's not a big deal to you.
He also ran on no more wars. Just sayin.
Arizona: WE HAVE ALL THE SUN WE NEED ALREADY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Where I'm at in Northern Colorado the total daylight time is crazy.
Without daylight savings time the sun would be rising at 4:41 am, HOLY ****.
Plug in a location and you can see why some areas of the country would prefer Standard Time over Daylight Savings Time.
Without daylight savings time the sun would be rising at 4:41 am, HOLY ****.
Plug in a location and you can see why some areas of the country would prefer Standard Time over Daylight Savings Time.
So why not add time zones. Make the time zones over the two major oceans much wider.
6 time zones for the contiguous US. Let Canada and Mexico do their own thing.
6 time zones for the contiguous US. Let Canada and Mexico do their own thing.
This is a textbook example of tinkering with something that by and large works just fine or atleast works no worse or no better than any of the alternatives. John Cohen would be proud....
You can always tell by his posts when his caretakers let him stew in his soiled diaper for a while and withhold his pudding
It’s already the earliest possible sunrise now, when DST goes away and shifts back to standard in the winter time.
If DST is kept year round, the later sunrise time in the winter has often been cited as a negative. I don’t get it.
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China has one time zone. There is a 2 1/2 hour gap between some cities. In the summer sunrise can be as early as 4:30 and in the winter as late as 10:00 depending on where you live.
