Daylight Saving Time

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Daylight Saving Time

  • Keep it

    Votes: 11 19.6%
  • Eliminate it

    Votes: 33 58.9%
  • Neutral

    Votes: 12 21.4%

  • Total voters
    56

CGI_Ram

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So... what do you think of daylight saving time?

Let’s please avoid the politics of how it would be changed... instead, do you see any benefit or disadvantage to it?

Not every country observes it, so it’s really one of those odd duck things we do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country

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Daylight saving time needs to be abolished – Let's stop the insanity

Clocks set to 'fall back' on Sunday

Here we go again with our annual exercise in silliness. At 2 a.m. Sunday the absurdity known as daylight saving time ends. Unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii – the only two states where daylight saving time is not observed – you will need to turn your clocks back an hour, gaining the hour you lost when clocks moved forward March 11.

You also don’t need to worry about changing your clocks if you live in the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. But there’s not much time left to relocate there to escape the mandatory time travel the rest of must endure.

The truth is that daylight saving time is a waste of time and accomplishes nothing. Contrary to popular myth, it does not save energy.

Nobody likes daylight saving time. Nobody’s even sure what it’s for. But it certainly has no purpose in our technology-driven, always-on society.

Airlines and airline passengers hate daylight saving time. It messes with schedules and can lead to missed flights, missed connections, pilot error, and worse.

Employers hate daylight saving time because workers are either late, unavailable, or dangerously sleep-deprived when clocks “spring forward” in March. That’s especially true for truck drivers, Uber and Lyft drivers, and anyone who operates heavy machinery.

Nobody likes daylight saving time. Nobody’s even sure what it’s for. But it certainly has no purpose in our technology-driven, always-on society.

Even dairy cows hate daylight saving time. They don’t want to wait an extra hour to be milked. And who can blame them? If they could talk, they would surely ask us why we dumb humans are moving clocks back and forth for no udder reason than the fact that we’ve been doing so since 1966 under federal law.

Daylight saving time is absolute proof that our government is hopelessly dysfunctional, out of touch with the times, and – let’s tell the truth – all but useless.

So who benefits from daylight saving time?

A trade association representing the barbecue industry absolutely loves daylight time. Longer summer days equal a longer barbecuing season. You cannot make this stuff up.

It’s hard to find anyone else in America who thinks that daylight saving is a good idea. But the only way it could change is if Congress takes action.

Don’t hold your breath.

If Congress can’t even handle a simple issue like eliminating daylight saving time – where there is virtually universal support for its repeal – no wonder lawmakers have no shot at doing hard things like the balancing the federal budget, figuring out what to do about health insurance, dealing with illegal immigration, and reducing gun violence and other crimes.

It’s truly amazing that most Americans and their calendars are held hostage by the grill and charcoal companies. What do they give members of Congress to keep daylight time in place? Free hot dogs, burgers and roasted marshmallows?

So this Sunday, I invite all Americans – red, blue and purple – to join me in a day of peaceful protest. Let’s demand that we not be forced forward and backward through time like yo-yos.

Let’s tell our elected representatives in the House and Senate – especially the ones begging for our votes in the midterm elections Tuesday – that it’s time to throw daylight saving time onto the ash heap of history.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/daylight-saving-time-needs-to-be-abolished-lets-stop-the-insanity
 

LesBaker

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Here we go again with our annual exercise in silliness. At 2 a.m. Sunday the absurdity known as daylight saving time ends. Unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii – the only two states where daylight saving time is not observed – you will need to turn your clocks back an hour, gaining the hour you lost when clocks moved forward March 11.

I lived in Indiana for a few years and parts of the state observed it, and parts didn't, which was really stupid.

Personally I LOVE it. I love having more daylight.

When I lived in Cleveland winters were terrible, you would often leave for work in the dark or just after dawn and come home in the dark. Horrible.

Even here in Florida I like it.

If it were up to me I'd leave it the hour ahead and never change it.
 

IowaRam

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other then having to relearn how to reset my digital watch every six months or so

daylight savings times goes by pretty much unnoticed for me

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Selassie I

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My parrot loves it. His clock doesn't change... he operates based on the sunrise and sunset. During daylight savings time... when I get home from work there's still plenty of daylight left, so he can go out on the back porch for an hour or so before he eats and goes to bed. When it isn't daylight savings time... when I get home he doesn't have enough daylight left to allow him to hang out outside before the sunset. He's gonna be a happy as hell starting next week.


Les is correct about Indiana. There are counties there that just don't change the clocks... they refuse to do it. I think they call it God's Time if they don't switch. I had to work up there for about a year... when you were trying to set appointments for anything, you had to ask the person if they were on God's Time or not even if they were only 10 minutes away from you. It was annoying as hell.
 

Dodgersrf

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I love it.
I enjoy the longer, warm summer evenings.
I also like the fall back, that to me, kicks off the Holiday season.
 

1maGoh

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Hate going forward. Love going back. I don't really care what we do.
 
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Should stay on daylight savings time. Always rather have the hour of sunlight @ the end not the beginning.
 

-X-

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Makes the Summers more enjoyable, and the winters less tolerable.
So, eliminate half of it.
 

RamFan503

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Should stay on daylight savings time. Always rather have the hour of sunlight @ the end not the beginning.
Yeah... I don’t really care either way but I’d be ok with this if they ended it.

It always seemed silly to me anyway.
 

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How about we change it 30 minutes next time and leave it alone for eternity?????
 

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Dark at 5pm totally blows.
I run most mornings around 6:00 am and though I appreciate not having to wear a headlamp once the clocks "fall back", I'd gladly run in the dark and have some daylight at the end of the day
 

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Dark at 5pm totally blows.
I run most mornings around 6:00 am and though I appreciate not having to wear a headlamp once the clocks "fall back", I'd gladly run in the dark and have some daylight at the end of the day


this....

And when you work on other peoples houses,most times they dont appreciate you being there before 8 am. I would rather have that time at the end of the day to take the dogs out for a quick stroll or get a quick run in before it gets dark
 

CGI_Ram

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I’m still waking up an hour early.
 

-X-

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I've had to change my work day hours from 8-4:30 to 7-3:30 because of this stupid shit. Mainly because where I live now (an hour away from work) is on a mountain with ZERO street lights and a curvy road with no barriers. I'll fall right off that shit if I can't see where I'm going.

Fuck you Ben Franklin.
Not your best idea.
 

dieterbrock

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Had to be at my weekly networking meeting at 6:40 am today and thought, at least it will be nice to drive in the light of day.
Wrong!
Still dark
And now its 2:56pm and its starting to get dark already.
I hate everyone involved with this decision. Lol
 

fearsomefour

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I would like the standard time to be the extended summer time and summer to be even as hour longer day light.