The old bi-yearly roaming the house and driveway for 20 minutes changing all the stupid analog/dumb digital clocks routine.

Great

Frank

 

The old bi-yearly roaming the house and driveway for 20 minutes changing all the stupid analog/dumb digital clocks routine.

Great

Frank

What do you do if the power blinks?? Just sell the house or wait until noon or midnight and flip the house breaker?

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https://www.almanac.com/content/stopping-daylight-saving-time

 

While as I age it takes longer to adjust, I love DST. More daylight after "normal" business hours is a big win.

 

The "movement" to get rid of it is to make DST permanent. Lighter evenings are better in every respect..

 

I don't know why DST bothers anyone. My clock changes automatically. I go to bed at the same time and get up when my alarms beeps. One hour doesn't make that much of a difference.

 

I'll just be glad to be feeding the dog at 5:15 every night instead of 4:15.

It seemed unfair to spend weeks "training" her to get used to a new time, so we didn't.

 

You DO know...

...that you don't have to change your clocks don't you??? Just leave them on DST year round and adjust "in your head" for about 4-5 months of winter standard time.

 

How about we split the diff by 1/2 hr and just leave it alone?

 

I'm ok with not observing the change. It's the many people that do change their clocks that makes it difficult for the few.

Surprised that this isn't a political issue. My hunch is that over 60% of likely voters would like to put an end to the back and forth.

 

Surprised that this isn't a political issue. My hunch is that over 60% of likely voters would like to put an end to the back and forth.

In 2018 here in CA, we passed Prop. 7 by ~60%, to stay on Daylight Saving time year 'round. It's been stalled in the CA legislature ever since. If they ever do their thing, then it will have to go to the US Congress to approve.

 

Wow, thanks for calling Benjamin Franklin stupid, after all it was his idea to begin with.

 

 

While I was working it was nice to have more daylight after work. Now that I am retired I don't care one way or another. Having an atomic clock on the wall it changes automatically. Just have to change the one on my wrist. The dog doesn't notice but expects to get fed at the same time everyday.

 

I always disliked the idea even when I was younger and work. Personally, I prefer it to be dark when I go to bed. I seem to sleep a lot better. How about we make it a rural/urban thing. Inside city limits of larger than 1000 persons stay on DST. Outside of town, the chickens rule.

 

The chickens rule :t

My wrist watch and both of our rides are still on old time, the house clocks are all on DST

Switching it up some keeps me sharp in the mind and motivated physically



pipestone

 

Here in Arizona, we don't change our clocks, we just have to be confused about what time it is where our clock-changing friends and relatives live. I'm never quite sure whether I'm calling them too late or too early.
I'm good with standard time. When summer hits and the daylight is 116 degrees, I'm not all that interested in having an extra hour of it . . . .

 

Here in Arizona, we don't change our clocks, we just have to be confused about what time it is where our clock-changing friends and relatives live.

When I worked for a British company it was crazy for 2+ weeks in Spring/Fall as they switched their clocks on different dates than we do in the US.

 

It’s all a conspiracy from the 9 volt battery manufacturers, to get everyone to change the batteries in their smoke detectors.

Ours are hardwired and have 5 year batteries, I’m not under the thumb of the man.

 

I would vote to leave it on DST forever

 

That's just crazy talk. .

Let's stick with standard time so the rest of world doesn't get all whacked out. If you want to go to work an hour earlier just change the standard workday to be 8am to 4pm instead of 9am to 5pm. Problem solved.

 

At the 60th parallel it is frustrating in the fall and just as much so in the spring. In the fall we go from having a sliver of light in the evening to just dark. Now we already have a lot of light and we end up with even more.... wonder what the justification of ak time changing is... it would be nice to not have a time zone difference with the west coast part of the year.

 

And they have to move all the rocks at Stonehenge twice a year. I wonder how much that costs.

 

one year i offered a solution to my boss. i'd work 11 hour days in June, 5 hour days in December.
between the two extremes, every month i'd work an hour more or an hour less.
before and after work, within 30 minutes, you'd have the same amount of daylight all year long.
it could be adjusted for latitude... this plan works for ~NYC.

Jan - 6 hour days
Feb - 7 hour days
Mar - 8 hour days

Apr - 9 hour days
May - 10 hour days
Jun - 11 hour days

July - 10 hour days
Aug - 9 hour days
Sep - 8 hour days

Oct - 7 hour days
Nov - 6 hour days
Dec - 5 hour days

...my plan was not approved.

 

An absolute pet peeve. *ANYTHING* would be better than what we have. It gets dark too early in the Winter, so we "fall back" and make it worse. It stays lite too late in the Summer, so we "spring forward" and make it worse. DST - or at least changing the clocks - is the STUPIDEST idea ever.

 

.... It gets dark too early in the Winter, so we "fall back" and make it worse. It stays lite too late in the Summer, so we "spring forward" and make it worse. ....

it changes your argument if you consider the other side of the day... sunrise.

the one winter we stayed on DST all year long (1973 maybe?) i remember it being difficult to get up and go to class at 7am in pitch darkness, but even more strange to get out of that same class and it was still dark.

 

How about when we do the Hokey Pokey and turn ourselves around? That's what it's all about . . .

 

Don't you just hate it when something screws up your "It's all about ME" moment.

 

It is a absolutely stupid practice..You know you do not actually save anything right? Still the same amount of sun everyday depute what time someone says it is on a clock.

You just lie to yourself what time it is.. That is all it is. It is simple..Just leave your clock alone and change the time you start your day..Makes as much sense to do that as the rest of it does.

 

From Wiki...

Late sunrise times can become unpopular in the winter months which essentially forces workers and schoolchildren to begin the day in darkness. In 1974 following the enactment of the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Act in the United States, there were complaints of children going to school in the dark and working people commuting and starting their work day in pitch darkness during the winter months.

Both as a kid and an adult I have always like going to school/work in the dark. I find it makes for a quieter/calmer morning.

 

I am in the group that favors to eliminate DST. The sun will still rise and fall as it always has. My suggestion is to go one step further. Eliminate all time zones in the USA. Make one zone and set the time for the Central Time Zone which would average from the east to west coast. There would be no calculations needed for when to call some one in a different zone for business or pleasure. The TV programs and other such things could be given for one time. We got along fine before these changes were made and could do it again.

 

We got along fine before these changes were made and could do it again.

Before we had time zones every town set its own time by the Sun. So noon in Pittsburgh was 30 minutes before noon in Indianapolis. That was a mess.