Daylight Saving Time

[NAC4EV]

While some states are making moves to opt out of daylight saving time.

Up here in the Northwest, we are doing the opposite.
We are: "Ditching" the switch.
It’s high time to stay on daylight savings all the time.


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California voters overwhelmingly supported a bill last fall to stick to summer time all year round. Their decision still has a couple of more hurdles to jump, such as getting approved by their federal congress, but the proposal was popular with voters, garnering nearly 60 per cent support.

Several Washington State senators also introduced a bill in January to spring forward this March and stay in that time zone forever.

If we do this, most of you will be forced to follow.

 

[sportage]

Im guessing daylights savings was created during a time when it made sense.
Like for saving energy or after a war to save resources or because legislators were bored and needed to look busy.
But in todays world we don't need this, really.
So weird, old habits are hard to break. Especially when government is involved.
And the logic about it all? Forget THAT. Logic need not apply when it comes to government.

Also... the theory was back then during the cold war era, that tomorrow Sunday was the day Russia would most likely attack America because Americans had lost an hour of sleep and thus vulnerable and tired. Seriously, that was the idea.
So set your clocks forward and say goodnight for this might be our last night on earth.
Maybe Donald could declare one of his national emergency's ???

 

[brianmanahan]

sticking to DST all year round would be awesome

 

[IronWing]

If all the states that use DST would do so permanently, then AZ would effectively get bumped to PST. I like this.

 

[compcons]

I think we are very slowly doing away with time change. We started dusDST earlier and ended it later several years ago. Not sure what the delay is, but I imagineg that at the current pace, we will add a week every 10 years until we are permanently on DST. For you people not paying attention, until 2007 DST started at the beginning of April and ended at the end of October. You can wiki it up and read all about the research that was done to check the savings from the extension.

Standard time simply needs to go away.

 

[Chaotic42]

This is one of those things that everyone seems to be in favor of but it never gains any political traction for some reason.

 

[DietDrThunder]

I can think of one industry that died because of DST. Drive in movie theaters. When dusk isn't until 9PM, most people didn't want to stay until it was dark enough to watch.

My only wish is that my state legislature would pick one or the other and stick with it all year round. I'm tired of this B.S.

 

[BurnItDwn]

The only thing worse forcing us to observe DST some of the time, is forcing it upon us ALL of the time.

No thank you.

Just kill DST already and let it die a horrible death!

 

[Staples]

I am all for daylight saving time year round. (and I live in CA) I have been ranting about this for decades and finally it may happen. DST sucks. I want daylight at the end of the day. I do not care so much about daylight in the morning. You are able to do yardwork after work if there is daylight.

And for everyone saying DST thinking it stands for daylight saving time. I think it stands for daylight standard time as in, the Winter schedule.

Edit> I just looked it up. I stand corrected.

 

[snoopy7548]

I'm all for just ending it. Having to change the clocks twice a year is just idiotic.

I'm taking a stand this year. I'm setting all the manual clocks at work back an hour.

 

[rh71]

^ what's more idiotic are all the manual clocks. It's fricken 2019! Mechanical gears need to get with the times!

 

[DietDrThunder]

I'm all for just ending it. Having to change the clocks twice a year is just idiotic.

I'm taking a stand this year. I'm setting all the manual clocks at work back an hour.

I like this idea. Since no one has moved the clock forward at my work, tomorrow morning, if I'm the first one in to work, I will set the clocks back an hour. Then when they move the clock forward, everything will be just the way I want it.

 

[ultimatebob]

^ what's more idiotic are all the manual clocks. It's fricken 2019! Mechanical gears need to get with the times!

Yeah, why am I still setting clocks by hand in 2019? I thought that the IoT revolution was going to make everything in my house network connected and auto updating. Even my car needed a manual clock change, and it's a shiny new 2018 model. WTF?

Of course if I did have all network connected clocks, that means that I'd need to update the damn Wi-Fi password on all of this stuff when I change it. I just can't win, I guess.

 

[thebestMAX]

Just compromise by 1/2 hour and quit messing with us. The Sun wont care.

 

[FeuerFrei]

It's nothing to get hung up on. Just accept it as a fact of life.
I'm saving a ton of daylight these days.

 

[brianmanahan]

honestly it's not even that hard to get used to. go to bed 1 hour earlier or 1 hour later, and the next day it's like nothing changed.

 

[Chaotic42]

honestly it's not even that hard to get used to. go to bed 1 hour earlier or 1 hour later, and the next day it's like nothing changed.

Sleep is already really dicey for a lot of people. I can't just go to sleep when I want.

 

[ElFenix]

bunch of protestant early to be early to rise nonsense. you want to go to work earlier, fine, do it. leave me out of it.

 

[lxskllr]

Sleep is already really dicey for a lot of people. I can't just go to sleep when I want.

I sleep just fine, but I'm closely tuned to the sun. It isn't simply a matter of gaining/losing an hour and I'm done. It's day after day of having a fucked up clock, and everything being a little off.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would love if this madness stopped. I would prefer to keep winter time, but I don't really care, pick one, and stick to it. Eventually the body will adjust to it permanently over the years. It's the constant switching back and forth that messes us up.

 

[crashtech]

I also don't care which zone we end up in. Pick a goddamn time and stick with it, stop screwing with my internal clock.

 

[eng2d2]

My solar watch adjusted quite nicely

 

[brianmanahan]

Sleep is already really dicey for a lot of people. I can't just go to sleep when I want.

that sucks i never could either, but once i started taking 5-10mg of melatonin it got a lot easier to time when i am going to get drowsy. takes about 1.5-2 hours for that stuff to kick in for me.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Melatonin helps me too but I try to avoid using it too much, don't want to become dependent. When I switch from night shift to day shift I'll usually use it so I can try to go to bed at a decent time and revert back to day shift mode though.

Always takes me a long time to fall asleep as I'm just not tired at night. When I work night shift I fall asleep right away in the day though. My body seems to sleep better in the day than at night, it's weird. Early mornings are super hard on me. I find it's easier to go to bed at 7am than it is to get up at that time.

 

[ctbaars]

I would miss the bi-annual banter about DST in ATOT, therefore, the whole country should maintain shifting clocks.