Daylight Savings Time

[Salty]

Did you know that 19 States/Commonwealths would prefer to have Daylight Savings time year round?
Those 19 include: The 19 states are: Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Idaho, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, Florida and California.


So would that ideal be good, bad or indifferent?

Open for discussion

 

[Squire Robertsson]

California is now on Standard Time.

 

[kathleenmariekg]

I would prefer no daylight savings time at all.

 

[AustinC]

I think it depends on if you are a morning person or a night person. Do you want your light in the early morning or later at night? This is mostly true for the northern states.
Without daylight savings time, earliest sunrise would be at 4:11 am in International Falls, MN. Sunset, with daylight savings is 9:20 pm.
Does anyone want to see the sun at 4:11 am? Even 5:11 seems early to me.
Now flip it to December. Assuming we stick with standard time, on December 21 the sunrise is 8:03am with sunset at 4:20pm. If Minnesota stayed at daylight savings IFalls would have a sunrise at 9:03 am. It seems to me that kids trying to go to school in the morning would be endangered from being hit by cars as they walked in the dark.
For northern states, I think the changes make sense. For the southern states, I don't see a reason to keep changing.

 

[Salty]

Just in case - - those 19 states/commonwealth want the Daylight Savings times year round - NOT Standard time year round.
Sorry if there was any misinterpretation.

 

[Salty]

I would prefer no daylight savings time at all.

Why is that?

 

[AustinC]

Just in case - - those 19 states/commonwealth want the Daylight Savings times year round - NOT Standard time year round.
Sorry if there was any misinterpretation.

I understood. I am just pointing out that having daylight savings all the time in the far north would make sunrise after 9am in December. Even a night person should find that wrong.
If I lived in the far north, I would vote no.

 

[Salty]

I understood. I am just pointing out that having daylight savings all the time in the far north would make sunrise after 9am in December. Even a night person should find that wrong.
If I lived in the far north, I would vote no.

What do you mean by "Far North"?

 

[kathleenmariekg]

Why is that?

I understood. I am just pointing out that having daylight savings all the time in the far north would make sunrise after 9am in December. Even a night person should find that wrong.
If I lived in the far north, I would vote no.

Exactly what AustinC is saying. Daylight savings time in the winter is more dangerous for school children in the mornings. I would prefer sunlight at 4 in the morning to changing time. I know it was not asked, but what I prefer is to just stick with natural time all year.

 

[kathleenmariekg]

I am not far north, but the morning were still very dark this week and would be too dark in the next few weeks to be safe.

 

[Silverhair]

I live about 300 Km north of the 49th and I wish they would just make up their mind and pick one. Since the kids need light when going to school it would be better to stay where we are now. This back a forth is just a pain, it throws the sleep all out of wack.

 

[AustinC]

What do you mean by "Far North"?

I gave you the data for International Falls, Minnesota which is on the Canadian border. That's far north in the 48 states.

 

[agedman]

Why not everyone in the world just move their clocks a half hour, and be done with it!

 

[Salty]

I gave you the data for International Falls, Minnesota which is on the Canadian border. That's far north in the 48 states.

I must have been sleeping!

International Falls, MN .......................48° 36' 7" N
Anchorage, Alaska...............................61°13'5.02"N,

yep, I was in Alaska.

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

I say get rid of it. I'd rather have more light after work rather than in the morning. With the time change I've barely got time enough to get the Turkeys fed before I lose the sun. And I have no time at all to get any other outside work done during the week.

 

[37818]

It was just fine. Then congress change the start and end dates of DST a few years ago. I have two clocks I bought with a chip were I would not have to change them. They were automatic on the time change. Now I have to change the time zone setting 4 times a year.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

It was just fine. Then congress change the start and end dates of DST a few years ago. I have two clocks I bought with a chip were I would not have to change them. They were automatic on the time change. Now I have to change the time zone setting 4 times a year.

What was that thing about the opposite of “progress?”

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

I would rather be on Standard Time year round. It's a pet peeve of mine that high noon isn't high noon, and midnight isn't really mid-night. It's like when people tinker with the set temperature of an incubator to a temperature that they don't really want, because they're too lazy to figure out how to calibrate it, but that's another matter.

Standard time helps my sense of direction when hiking in the woods.

 

[37818]

What was that thing about the opposite of “progress?”

Hmm. Congress believed that change would save money on electricity usage. It didn't.

 

[Salty]

Hmm. Congress believed that change would save money on electricity usage. It didn't.

You must be talking about Nixon and 1974 (supposed) oil shortage
The year Daylight Saving Time went too far