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Daylight Stealing Time

Apt, although all DST/non-DST does is move the clock hands around. The sun is still up X amount of time.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Daylight Stealing Time

Apt, although all DST/non-DST does is move the clock hands around. The sun is still up X amount of time.

This is true, but daylight while I'm at work is a lot less useful to me than daylight after I get home. And I work 12s, so starting next week I'll have daylight whatsoever after work.

Stop the madness... Put the entire country on the same clock and do away with the the 4 seperate time zones......... In central Alaska during winter months you might get to turn the headlights OFF on your car at 9am to 10am but turning them back on about 1pm... But in summer season was no darkness at the most was sort of a light twilight with the sun never really setting... june 21st (longest day of the year) softball game played on a unlight field with the 1st pitch not thrown till actual midnight (12pm) and have no problem seeing the softball....... tinfoil on house windows to fool the biological clock that tells you it is time to go to bed when you look still daylight outside......................... drill sgt.

My take is that you might as well get used to it. Spend your energy on things that you can change.

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Originally posted by drill sgt:

Stop the madness... Put the entire country on the same clock and do away with the the 4 seperate time zones

Well, if you're gonna do that, let's do it right and put the whole world on Zulu tine (GMT). Then you could do away with resetting your watch if you travel from NY to California. The state of Florida would all be in the same time zone instead of the panhandle being an hour different from the peninsula. We could do away with the International Date Line, and the confusion that it causes.

Hate it with gusto. Fall back, I’m fine with. Spring forward fucks me up for 3-4 weeks. I don’t care which one we do, pick one, then quit with the fucking flip flop bullshit twice a year.

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Originally posted by Glynn863:
Either 1 hour forward or 1 hour back, depending on the time of year. Why can't the world compromise and just change everyone's time zone by 30 minutes and leave it alone? JMHO.

I been thinking/wanting this for years.

I'm definitely 100% in the Standard Time camp, however, I think the time zones need to be redrawn a bit to the west. For example, we drove through Jackson, MS last November and it was getting dark at 4:30pm....that's nuts. If we stay on DST, those who work outside will be working in the dark until 9am in some locations. That doesn't make any sense. I've worked shift work all my working life, it doesn't need to stay light until 9pm or later. Standard time and leave it alone, por favor.

Since Daylight Savings Time in the USA was introduced as a measure to help defeat the Kaiser in WW1, I think it worked out and we need to go back to year-round STANDARD time. But the various time zones should be redrawn. Specifically, the western edge of the Eastern zone needs to be move further East, to the I-75 corridor.

I live in Kentucky, a State more or less split evenly along the I-65 corridor. Louisville, my hometown, lies at the farthest western edge of the Eastern Zone, but just 45 miles to the west is the Central Zone. We are closer to Chicago in both land miles and solar time to Chicago than we are to New York City.

At the darkest time of the year, the Sun doesn’t show its head until approximately 8:10AM (ET), and goes down at 5:20PM (ET). Already the kiddies go to school in the dark, and many don’t make it home until dark again. If we would be on the Central Time, everything would be adjusted by one hour, and the kids would be going to school AFTER the Sun has risen.

Although Arizona does not observe DST and is MST (Mountain Standard Time) year round, the Navajo rez Nation does.

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Originally posted by drill sgt:
Stop the madness... Put the entire country on the same clock and do away with the the 4 seperate time zones.........

Well, that certainly wins the nuttiest proposal for the issue.

Why not the whole world?

BTW - USA has 6 time zones, so let's do away with at least all 6 of those, alright?

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Originally posted by Paten:
Ah. The return to normalcy this weekend. Standard time is standard.

It used to be standard to work 10 or 12 hours a day, six days a week and to die at age 60. "Standard" does not mean desirable.

I prefer DST in late spring, summer, and early fall. It let's me get 9-18 holes in after work. In winter time it makes zero difference to me but the adjustment to the time change is more difficult as I get older. My vote would be do stay on DST year round. Either way I can live with it.

Being retired I really don’t care which way they move the time, just choose one or the other and stick with it.

19 states have already passed legislation supporting year-round DST, but none of those bills or laws can take effect until the Uniform Time Act (1966) is repealed at the federal level.

Daylight Saving Time is not observed at all in Arizona and Hawaii. The Uniform Time Act allows states to stick to Standard Time year-round, but bars states from practicing permanent DST.

(A 2023 poll reported that about half of Americans supported permanent DST, but only 31% would choose permanent Standard Time.)

In 2018, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio introduced “The Sunshine Protection Act,” which would have kept the entire country on DST year-round. The bill was unanimously passed by the Senate in 2022, but was not signed by the House of Representatives or President Joe Biden. A version of the bill was re-introduced in 2023, but is currently at a standstill in Congress.

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Actually, were about to EXIT DST, not start it (unless your 'stealing' was part of it).

Several politicians have been pushing for DST to be permanent. Many medical personnel have expressed an opinion that we should be on non-DST all the time.

While it would probably be a bit of an adjustment, I think companies would adjust shift times if the time standard stays static.

"To quote the Indian Chief: "Leave it to the government to think that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and adding it to the bottom of the blanket, will make the blanket longer!".
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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by drill sgt:

Stop the madness... Put the entire country on the same clock and do away with the the 4 seperate time zones

Well, if you're gonna do that, let's do it right and put the whole world on Zulu tine (GMT). Then you could do away with resetting your watch if you travel from NY to California. The state of Florida would all be in the same time zone instead of the panhandle being an hour different from the peninsula. We could do away with the International Date Line, and the confusion that it causes.

But when would National Pickle Day be?

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Originally posted by trapper189:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

We could do away with the International Date Line, and the confusion that it causes.

But when would National Pickle Day be?

Depends on which side of the International Date Line you are.

If Claussen brings back the Hearty Garlic pickles, then every day would be National Pickle Day.

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Originally posted by OKCGene:
"To quote the Indian Chief: "Leave it to the government to think that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and adding it to the bottom of the blanket, will make the blanket longer!".
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Don't we all know that the change doesn't make the day longer? It just puts the daylight at the end of the day. I prefer it there and would happily have DST all year. I hate driving home in the dark after work and feeling like I should go straight to bed.