I want permanent standard time and just use GMT to standardize worldwide commerce.
BTW, standard time was invented by the railroads for scheduling purposes. Before that, every town had their own local time. Almanacs used to have tables telling the difference between local time at various towns across the US.
There is no law telling stores and companies what their hours should be. They can open and close regardless of what the current clock says. For example, farm related businesses ought to open at sunrise, regardless of time. Farmers work during daylight hours.
There is no law telling stores and companies what their hours should be.
Might want to change that a little bit. The first ones that came to my mind are the Texas "blue laws".
I won't put all of them, but a few are - Liquor stores can only be open between 10am and 9pm Monday thru Saturday. They must be closed Sundays, and on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day. If the last 2 fall on a Sunday they must be closed on that Monday.
There are also laws on beer and wine.
One of the more esoteric laws deals with the percentage of alcohol by volume in stuff like Cooking Sherry. That one hit me one year the day before Thanksgiving. My Sister-in-law was visiting and she was going to make sherried carrots. I went to the local grocery store around 11pm to buy a small bottle of cooking sherry. I found what I needed and went to buy it but the computer register denied the sale. It turns out the amount of alcohol was higher than the percentage allowed to be sold after hours. I couldn't get it the next day because they would be closed for Thanksgiving.
The night manager came over to chat and I told her what happened. I often talked to her because I usually shopped about 1am and always saw her - she was a sweet old lady in her 70s. She verified everything, grabbed the bottle, and put it in my side pocket. I told her I can't do that and she said to not worry about it. I ended up buying one of those "tag" things some charities sell for donations at the register and paid the amount of what the sherry would've cost. The manager told me she was going to pay for it the next time she legally could. It was only like $3.50 or so anyway.
That is a good example of the govt making a law and not considering the side effects it will inevitably have.
I don't know about liquor stores, as I've never been in one. I do know that convenience stores didn't close when the beer and wine hours quit. They just locked the doors on the coolers so no one could even get to the beer and wine. Texas, if that's so, is unique in the US. BTW, I worked in convenience stores for a few years. The doors didn't have locks, so we had to run chains through the door handles. Also, the first store I worked at closed at 11 PM anyway, so we only had to chain the cooler doors on Sunday. Eventually those rules went away. This is in NC.
Days open has zero to do with Standard Time anyway.
I want permanent standard time and just use GMT to standardize worldwide commerce.
BTW, standard time was invented by the railroads for scheduling purposes. Before that, every town had their own local time. Almanacs used to have tables telling the difference between local time at various towns across the US.
There is no law telling stores and companies what their hours should be. They can open and close regardless of what the current clock says. For example, farm related businesses ought to open at sunrise, regardless of time. Farmers work during daylight hours.
Might want to change that a little bit. The first ones that came to my mind are the Texas "blue laws".
I won't put all of them, but a few are - Liquor stores can only be open between 10am and 9pm Monday thru Saturday. They must be closed Sundays, and on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day. If the last 2 fall on a Sunday they must be closed on that Monday.
There are also laws on beer and wine.
One of the more esoteric laws deals with the percentage of alcohol by volume in stuff like Cooking Sherry. That one hit me one year the day before Thanksgiving. My Sister-in-law was visiting and she was going to make sherried carrots. I went to the local grocery store around 11pm to buy a small bottle of cooking sherry. I found what I needed and went to buy it but the computer register denied the sale. It turns out the amount of alcohol was higher than the percentage allowed to be sold after hours. I couldn't get it the next day because they would be closed for Thanksgiving.
The night manager came over to chat and I told her what happened. I often talked to her because I usually shopped about 1am and always saw her - she was a sweet old lady in her 70s. She verified everything, grabbed the bottle, and put it in my side pocket. I told her I can't do that and she said to not worry about it. I ended up buying one of those "tag" things some charities sell for donations at the register and paid the amount of what the sherry would've cost. The manager told me she was going to pay for it the next time she legally could. It was only like $3.50 or so anyway.
That is a good example of the govt making a law and not considering the side effects it will inevitably have.
I don't know about liquor stores, as I've never been in one. I do know that convenience stores didn't close when the beer and wine hours quit. They just locked the doors on the coolers so no one could even get to the beer and wine. Texas, if that's so, is unique in the US. BTW, I worked in convenience stores for a few years. The doors didn't have locks, so we had to run chains through the door handles. Also, the first store I worked at closed at 11 PM anyway, so we only had to chain the cooler doors on Sunday. Eventually those rules went away. This is in NC.
Days open has zero to do with Standard Time anyway.