How Much Daylight have YOU Saved?

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I just hate this twice-a-year whipsawing we get, it just drives me starkers!

It also gives us more traffic accidents, med screw-ups and general disgruntlement among the general population. And clock makers and clock shops go rabid! Ever try and reset a grandfather clock twice a year? How about 20 of them?

OK, so you get an hour more daylight at the end of the day in Summer-but to me it just ain’t worth it. it’s like cutting off one foot of a string and attacking it to the other side.

Just leave it alone! I come down on the side of Standard time year-round, as DST hasn’t been shown to really save anything! Mother Nature shouldn’t be goosed like this, and neither should we.

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What is this daylight savings of which you speak? Sounds like a foolish idea!

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I think it all depends on whether you are an early riser or someone who stays up late and consequently likes to then sleep late the next morning. Since I get up every day by no later then five in the morning and am asleep in bed by nine in the evening, I would prefer that they just do away with DST altogether and stay with standard time year round. I don’t care for waiting two hours or more for sunrise after getting up in the morning, nor having it still light out when I go to bed in the evening. But then there are a very great number of people who really like and need those hours of good daylight each day during the warmer months for the things they need to do around the home outside after getting home from work or school each day. So it depends if you’re an early riser or not. I think DST was designed for our increasingly urban and suburban American culture, as our country moved further away from the rural agricultural society. Today, half of the population of the USA lives in the 54 population centers that are equal to or larger than Tucson, Arizona.

 

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Newfoundland Time Zone for the win.
They go halfway, and stay there permanently.

 

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Douglas wrote:

I think DST was designed for our increasingly urban and suburban American culture, as our country moved further away from the rural agricultural society.

Interesting. I remember, in elementary school, being told the opposite: that DST was for the farmers and that it had something to do with the chickens or maybe farm animals in general.

Whatever the actual reason, I too wish that they would do away with the whole thing and stick to one single time year-round. I don’t care if it’s standard time or savings time—just pick one and then leave it alone already!!!

 

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I love it because I live further from the equator than 30 degrees and daylight in the evening is great.

If you live nearer the equator the day length doesn’t change enough for it to be worthwhile.

cheers, Paul

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States

it really depends on local lawmakers & legislators to pass laws that either abolish the daylight time changes or be in daylight time permanently.
such bills in the USA have been introduced in Congress but have been “stuck in limbo” or have been “deadlocked” and things have not changed, so the time changes will continue on for most US states.

As of November 2023, a number of state bills have been introduced, and a bill in the US Senate has been reintroduced. None have passed in Congress. Until a DST bill is passed in both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, and then signed into law by the President, nowhere in the US will have permanent daylight time (and standard time is mandatory in all parts of the country, for either the “winter months” or the full year, depending on state law).Most of the United States will continue to change clocks twice a year.

if OP does not like the daylight saving time changes, that person should relocate or move to a province or region that never observes such daylight time changes. In this case for the USA, go live in either the state of Arizona or Hawaii, where these two US states have chosen to always be in standard time and never observe daylight saving time.

edit: I do not mind either way as I am used to the daylight saving time changes.

Until US Congress passes a law that is approved in BOTH the US House and Senate AND officially signed into law by the current US President, things will remain the same for now with the daylight saving time changes for most of the USA.

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So you’re saying that the OP should shut the heck up and move to either AZ or HI? By logical extension you’re also saying that anyone who doesn’t like something about any law or laws in effect in their location of residence should should shut the heck up and move to a locaton where they agree with all laws?

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