Facts about 'Daylight Savings Time" and is it needed anymore?
Mar 12, 2018 17:28:43 #
Well Mark, still feel the same after this weekend about Tiger.
Sasketchewan doesn't change their time and get along fine.
Swede
Sasketchewan doesn't change their time and get along fine.
SwedeMar 12, 2018 18:11:06 #
Swede wrote:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html.
Interesting article.
Is DST needed anymore?
I say no.
Swede
Interesting article.
Is DST needed anymore?
I say no.
Swede
My lawn needs the extra sunlight, so keep it.
Mar 12, 2018 18:11:29 #
A long, long time ago the reasons given for DST was that farmers needed the extra daylight to work in. I never adjust to DST. My body is locked into Standard time. Tired all summer. Of course at 71, not so strange.
Mar 12, 2018 20:40:23 #
Love DST. I live 3 miles west of the eastern time zone and we have always used eastern time because most people work in the eastern time zone anyway so DST works for me. Right now it get dark about 7:45 instead of 6:45, it's nice to have that extra hour of daylight in the evening for outdoor activity, especially photography.
Mar 12, 2018 21:28:02 #
Don's Leica
Loc: Asheville, NC
Don't like it one bit. Changing clocks is a crude way of changing people's schedules, and too forceful.
Mar 12, 2018 21:57:58 #
Two things are sure: 1. It does not create any more hours of light; 2. It sends school children off at a darker hour, not a lighter one. The amount of light we used to have at 7:00 a.m., we now have to wait until 8:00 to enjoy. It may stay lighter in the late evening, but it stays darker in the early morning as well.
Mar 12, 2018 23:14:45 #
One comment I heard locally is that if we must change to DST, then the change should happen at 4:00 PM on a Friday instead of 2:00 AM on Sunday morning.
Mar 12, 2018 23:48:18 #
Erdos2 wrote:
One comment I heard locally is that if we must change to DST, then the change should happen at 4:00 PM on a Friday instead of 2:00 AM on Sunday morning.
Fantastic idea! Let's all write Congress.
Mar 13, 2018 01:19:27 #
paulrph1
Loc: Washington, Utah
Swede wrote:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html.
Interesting article.
Is DST needed anymore?
I say no.
Swede
Interesting article.
Is DST needed anymore?
I say no.
Swede
It should have gone the way of the do-do bird with the invention of the light bulb.
Mar 13, 2018 02:34:37 #
erickter
Loc: Dallas,TX
jerryc41 wrote:
"No, No, A thousand times no." To quote a line from the song.
There's probably money-making involved, so we're stuck with it. I recently got two atomic clocks - two that I never have to set.
There's probably money-making involved, so we're stuck with it. I recently got two atomic clocks - two that I never have to set.
I sense the same thing. A racket or payoff. Hate DST to no end.
Mar 13, 2018 04:04:21 #
Swede wrote:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html.
Interesting article.
Is DST needed anymore?
I say no.
Swede
Interesting article.
Is DST needed anymore?
I say no.
Swede
Most countries throughout the world don't observe daylight saving time. In 1974, during the gas shortage, the U.S. didn't set clocks back, but kept DST. It made it dark for some kids going to school and I believe some of them got hit by cars because they couldn't be seen. I would like to do away with setting clocks back in the Fall and not change them at all.
Mar 13, 2018 07:38:20 #
Ed Cala wrote:
Why would you not want daylight in the early evening during late Spring and Summer months? Here in the northern mid-Atlantic we enjoy some longer daylight after a long and dreary Winter.
I live on the west coast of Florida. We don't really need daylight savings time. When the Pennsylvania area and New England were dealing with snow and freezing rain, we had lows in the mid to upper 40's. Sure, we had clouds and rain but nothing that seems to need daylight savings time. And, We really don't need to be on central standard time on the East Coast. And yes, we go on Daylight Savings Time every spring and go off every fall. And, the area of the Panhandle of Florida is on Central time... so, what do we do.. put everybody on the same time zone all across the country and pretend that the earth doesn't really rotate?...
Mar 13, 2018 18:49:00 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
jaymatt wrote:
I agree. I might add that the Evansville and Gary areas are apparently smarter than the rest of the state.
Daylight Savings Time is great; the problem is Indiana really should be in the Central Time Zone, but the state govt bows down to businesses that want to be on the same time as the eastern USA. People in Gary and Evansville simply have their heads screwed on correctly. As for me, I want the same time as Cincinnati and Louisville.
Mar 13, 2018 19:46:59 #
paulrph1
Loc: Washington, Utah
It all began as a suggestion of Benjamin Franklin, though smart and a man beyond wisdom of his day he did not live in our day. There was no modern conveniences, electricity, computers, phones. Everything has changed but not DST. We seem locked in, somehow forever. There were no power plants, damns, other ways of generating power. There were no automobiles, remember the horse and buggy? No busing of kids to schools. It needs to be looked at again. So much has changed.
Mar 13, 2018 20:08:48 #
From all the replies and positions stated on this site, it seems that where in the country you reside bears on your views of DST.
Here in western New York State, we are living through a rather long and dreary Winter and many of us are looking forward to Spring and Summer and the ability to work outdoors, plant gardens and take part in recreation we have been unable to do for so long. Having a bit more daylight in the evening is welcome and most conducive to taking part in these activities.
Here in western New York State, we are living through a rather long and dreary Winter and many of us are looking forward to Spring and Summer and the ability to work outdoors, plant gardens and take part in recreation we have been unable to do for so long. Having a bit more daylight in the evening is welcome and most conducive to taking part in these activities.
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