Daylight saving time.
Mar 13, 2023 11:00:15 #
Mar 13, 2023 11:07:04 #
I don't care what time it is I'm retired. I go to bed when I'm tired, wake up in the morning, take the dog for a walk, and eat when I'm hungry.
Mar 13, 2023 11:20:02 #
Old Indian saying. Only the white man could think that cutting the bottom foot of a blanket off and sewing it to the top would make a longer blanket.
Mar 13, 2023 11:21:56 #
David Martin
Loc: Cary, NC
StanMac wrote:
There are only perceived advantages for DST, no actual advantages.
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There are definite financial advantages to businesses that can remain open longer and make more money during their busiest times if they do most business in the evening and daylight extends further into the evening.
Mar 13, 2023 11:29:47 #
David Martin wrote:
Lots of research showing that switching back and f... (show quote)
Yes, it is definitely no good, but I'm sure the senators have good reasons to make it permanent.
Mar 13, 2023 11:32:08 #
David Martin
Loc: Cary, NC
pdsdville wrote:
Old Indian saying. Only the white man could think that cutting the bottom foot of a blanket off and sewing it to the top would make a longer blanket.
Isn't that what Fayle posted earlier in the thread?
At any rate, DST was not proposed to make the day longer, but as a means of providing more daylight at the end of the day, which would permit people to burn fewer candles to illuminate their homes. Benjamin Franklin, 1784.
Mar 13, 2023 11:34:24 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Click on the link I provided early in your thread. Let me know if you have questions 
Well so it's not decided yet. Thank you.
Mar 13, 2023 12:50:26 #
BebuLamar wrote:
You're very welcome Well so it's not decided yet. Thank you.
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Mar 13, 2023 12:52:12 #
Red6 wrote:
And Australia....Now that I think about it though, I think a few countries have their time zones offset from a whole hour. Iran and Pakistan use the half hour.
Broken Hill is in New South Wales, but uses Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) which is 30 minutes behind the rest of the state. Eucla in Western Australia is 45 minutes ahead of the rest of the state. It has its own time zone called Australian Central Western Standard Time (ACWST).
Mar 13, 2023 12:55:55 #
It must be in a committee for 10 years before discussing it. Then it has to be a bi-partisan resolution from Congress. Then it has to be out again for further research from the Farmers and children and then brought up to the regular voter who must be a US citizen and not an illegal. Once it has been approved by each State in the Union then it goes back to Congress for further study. This process has been going on for my life so I don't see it changed in my lifetime.
Mar 13, 2023 13:13:51 #
lenben
Loc: Seattle
Red6 wrote:
It has not and probably will not be for some time for the reasons in my other post.
My understanding and correct me if wrong, is that during the Nixon administration, it was determined that daylight savings would lower the gasoline costs due to changes in driving habits and it was instituted as a gas/cost saving policy.
Mar 13, 2023 13:21:14 #
lenben wrote:
My understanding and correct me if wrong, is that during the Nixon administration, it was determined that daylight savings would lower the gasoline costs due to changes in driving habits and it was instituted as a gas/cost saving policy.
Instituted nationally in 1966.
Done by countries previously during The Great War ... to save electricity.
Mar 13, 2023 14:03:18 #
DST is the equivalent of cutting a foot off the end of a rope and sewing it onto the other end in order to make it longer. Preferably, I would like to have daylight when I get up in the morning instead of when I go to bed at night!
Mar 13, 2023 14:05:52 #
I wonder how daylight savings time affects the folks living in northern Alaska where there are six months of daylight and six months of darkness?
Mar 13, 2023 14:37:44 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I wonder how daylight savings time affects the folks living in northern Alaska where there are six months of daylight and six months of darkness?
Half the state runs on alcohol...not sure they even participate or notice.
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