We're Getting Rid Of Daylight Savings Time
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Move the clocks ahead one more time then leave it there.
I agree. I love Daylight Savings Time… it’s the regular time the other half of the year that I don’t care for.
Yeah, hopefully they get that straight before they doom us all to late afternoon darkness, permanently.
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Ugh, no. Leave it normal time. If people like sunlight so much, go to work earlier. I hate it when it's light at 9:30 at night.
Same. And here in northern IN if we stayed on DST all winter the kids would go to school in pitch black and it would still be dark by supper time. Not healthy or safe!!
This seems to have bipartisan appeal. Or it would have, til Trump suggested it.
Yes! My dog will be so happy.
Mine too !! she pesters me @ 5am to go potty, because she think's it's 6am.
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Fuck, thanks for annoying me with that hideous little troll.
she's a bundle of libtard misery!!!
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I predict that in the not to distant future...people in Sweden will go to McDonalds and the girl taking their order will look strikingly familiar. Yes Greta, you can super-size my fries.
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Never gets old!
Seriously, what is the reason that DST has been kept this long other than inertia? Nobody likes it and in the days of cheap lighting it doesn't save electricity either.
The reason is the DS wanted to keep screwing with you twice a year. Lots of accidents occur around the beginning of each time change.
And heart attacks
Then why not change it more than twice a year if that's the arbitrary reason?
It kinda sucks for the trades who work outside. In the summer I may be starting at 5 am instead of 6. Boy will the kids love me. But its better than starting when the heat of the day is already getting stoked. 6 am to 8 am right now is the only time the heat is bearable.
Im up at 4 am every day anyway and in bed by 8 and asleep by 9. Will be nice that its getting dark before bed instead of full daylight. Be cool to have a 12 hour day end at 5 instead of 7 too.
That hour forward is horrible, I really don't recover from it until it changes back
I'm with you. Although, I, unlike 99% of contractors, go in late and stay late. The evenings cool down, so I hit most of the heat and enjoy the cooler temperatures regardless. Problem with the very long daylight hours is I tend to work too many hours. I love to build, and without darkness stopping me, I tend to press on. Down in Texas it's always crazy hot. I have made my peace with it.
Yea I can see a 5 am start time turning into 14 hour days lol. Im in Michigan, we get breaks where itll drop into the upper 70s with low humidity for a couple days. Even 60s once every couple years. I dont know how you guys in the south and southwest deal with 9 mos of sun and heat.
For my work it means sitting around waiting for the sun then I would end up working late to get everything done. I hate that. Makes you drag all day plus the day is literally longer and if you actually bill for all your productive time then they have kittens
"so let it be written, so let it be done."
Daylight saving time should become Standard time, then leave the time alone.
Thank God! I hate DST
(Love me some DJT though)
Me, too! 😸
I would much rather they keep the clocks forward, though.
Set your own damn clock, leave mine alone. Take up the issue of your working hours with your employer.
Self-employed. I haven't hardly looked at a clock with purpose for twenty-five plus years. No skin off my nose either way. Just a preference if I had to chose.
Respectfully-You do realize that will impact the roads you drive on and how busy they are right? No man is truly an island unless your completely retired and off grid - and if that is the case if you don’t care how it impacts others why should anyone care how it impacts you?
Can we also get rid of the metric system?
Yeah, if we don't want to sell to the rest of the world. Easier to be "bilingual" in both systems. If you need to do dimensional calculations, metric is far easier as the physical units automatically turn up in the calculation. No hunting around for conversions between calories and British Thermal Units.
I was told in HS that we needed to learn metric as the USA will change over to that system eventually. That was over 50 years ago.
A lot of it has. Science is overwhelmingly metric. All electrical technology is metric. I can't think of any medical technology that isn't metric (excepting maybe taking of weight and height). Radio technology is metric. The innards of most automobiles are metric to facilitate overseas and out-national production. Anything sold to the world is bound to be dual-dimensioned. Sports are increasingly metric.
You think that's bad? At least you guys have kept weight measurement fairly simple as in you would say "I weigh nnn pounds".
Here in UK we still use the pre-medieval measure of "stones" - there are 14 pounds in a stone. So it is very common to hear someone say "I weigh 14st 7lb" (st=stone, lb=libra=pound)
I had to learn the English engineering system, where the unit of mass is the "slug" (about 32 pounds, or a little over 2 stone) and the unit of force was the pound-force. Or the other English engineering system where the unit of mass is the pound-mass and the unit of force is the poundal. That, with calories and BTUs, made me a convert to SI (mks) metric fairly quickly. Even today, I convert from English units to metric, perform my calculation, and then convert back as needed.
In air and sea travel, I had to learn nautical miles (larger than statute miles) but memorized the conversion (1.852 km). It turns out there was a valid reason to define a nautical mile.
Ugh. I thought switching from metric to standard over and over was miserable
Try equating calories to British Thermal Units.
Maybe the three countries in the world not using metric should get rid of their medieval unit systems instead.
Please God let them use common sense on this giving us sunshine in the morning and MORE sleep not the reverse like they suggested a few years ago. Driving to work or taking kids to school in full dark with the sun up at bedtime is no fun
What are you going to bed at 4PM in winter?
The sun can still be up in some places as late as 9 or 10 and the sky can have residual light as late as 11 depends on where you are.
This time of year, I get off work and it’s dark. Fuck that shit. No.
DST was stupid from the start. Any company that wants to start their day earlier can just change their operating hours. It's not necessary for me to change all my clocks twice a year, just because Ben Franklin thought the French were wasting candles.
And then those companies need to tell schools and kindergartens and doctors to start their day earlier. Or we can just shift the clocks forward for more daylight during waking hours and it happens automatically for everyone. You can just start your day later if you want dark evenings.
Trump Hates Daylight! Reeeeeeee
DST gives more daylight during waking hours so it's better, full stop. We'll keep switching back and forth though because morning people and evening people will never come to an agreement.
Maybe they'll fix the calendar next...
I hope so...13 months with 28 days each, no leap year, Jesus born in September, Inauguration is in March, etc...
Exactly...
Nothing like getting paid monthly 12x a year, then working for 13 months...
12 months = 48 weeks
52 weeks in a yr - 48 months = 4 weeks/1 month free 🙄
Most never realized that...mathemagics
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Should revert to God's time. Each zone time is centered on time over that 15 degrees (360 deg/24 hours) of longitude. If one zone is artificially set, say hour ahead or behind, then you are always confused as to what time you set your clock as you travel. DO THE RIGHT THING AND JUST LET EACH ZONE PROGRESS ONE HOUR. PLEASE.
If society reverted to 'God's time' then going to church on Sunday would never happen.
Mostly, that is the way it works, but there are a lot of countries that span a zone boundary which find it more convenient to have one time countrywide. This is why the time zones in the U.S. are so Gerrymandered.
There's also the issue that the point of high noon shifts by about half an hour throughout the year so there's no "God's" time almost anywhere where high noon is exactly at 12 PM. May as well select a more practical time that gives us more daylight during waking hours, aka DST.
I don't understand what you are saying. A sundial provides high noon without fail. All you are saying is that the clock time can be as much as a half hour from full noon because the time zone is an hour wide. "God's time" is used de facto by astronomers, so it is not hard to get, but it will differ from time zone time. Who else uses astronomical time?
The farther north you go, the less and less the difference between Standard and Daylight Savings time makes a difference. At my latitude in the U.S., the summer days have 16 hours of daylight, and the winter days have only 8. The higher you go (Canada and Alaska), the more severe the variation (to 24 vs. 0). There is a reason that these climes were settled by northern Europeans.
Go to timeanddate.com and look up your location, it shows the time of solar high noon. You'll notice that time isn't stationary but it drifts around by about half an hour throughout the year. There's no single perfect "God's time" for any location on the planet because then we'd have to be shifting our clocks by small amounts every day. Maybe that's what astronomers do but it's not practical for the rest of us.
Even at high latitudes DST is better. Funny you should mention Alaska, it stretches far west of its accurate time zone and basically has year-round DST already, it just gets even more extreme in the summer when places like Gambell have their solar noon at 3:30 PM.
I live in Europe at ~60°N and I'd still prefer it if the little daylight we currently get lasted longer into the afternoon. Mornings are less relevant because they belong to the employer and shifting the light later in the day would also let us enjoy more of the long twilight before sunrise.
Same in the summer, I'll take 11 PM sunsets over 10 PM and so would most of the country, we tried permanent standard time and everyone hated it because people were used to outdoor activities until midnight. There's no point in wasting daylight at 3 AM when people are awake from 8 AM to 1 AM.
If you want "God's time," get a sundial. There's going to be as much as a half hour's difference from local high noon anyway, due to the geographic width of the time zone. If you are not really serious at all about having "God's time," then go with the flow and use local time per zone. Anyone who receives Universal Time (Greenwich Time) can automatically convert to solar time if they know their longitude. I really don't see your problem.
If you want DST, fine with me. I have no trouble with it.
I understand, it's down to personal preference in the end. It just seems silly to me that people insist that high noon be exactly at 12 PM, it never actually happens and it's impractical unless you live in South-East Asia where people get up at 5 AM. The West has a relatively late daily schedule so late daylight only makes sense.
You are leaving out farmers. They get-up-and-go because the herds and the crops get-up-and-grow. Solar time is all that nature cares about, and farmers have no option in the matter.
I also know that where I worked (industry in a major city), many office workers would deliberately rise at 4 AM in order to beat the morning rush to get in at 6 AM, and leave by 2 PM to get ahead of the afternoon rush. (Or they do it to coordinate with team members scattered across the continent.) I had to get up pretty early even to simply stick with the normal hours.
Actually, my beef is with financial institutions that are not 24/7. If you are trying to handle an international problem, it is infuriating in the extreme to dial up a service number and get brushed off by office hours. Emergencies don't wait for office hours, especially when they are happening halfway around the world.
Understood. Fully appreciate as one is over three zones. The idea is to have continuity as you travel from zone to zone going in one direction and not boucing ahead and back. Everyone would understand cross zone and move clock in one direction depending on direction.
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