Looks like both sides of the aisle and POTUS seem to agree its time to do away with DST. Finding it affects people's health negatively and isn't saving the energy consumption it was intended.
OT: Looks like DST may be headed into the sunset finally...
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so what do we stay with? FWIW I hope we stay with Daylight time so it stays light to like 9pm in the summer time
Kids shouldn't (rarely anyway) be going to school in pitch darkness. For a variety of reasons.
They are debating which one to stay on and whether to have more daylight end of day or morning. But finally looks like this is going away for good.
I just moved my clocks back 30 minutes. Split the difference.
I love the time changes, it makes great sense to me for just the daylight reasons. WHy have extra daylight at 4 am in the summer when you can have it at night where families can do things? And then in the winter we dont need it to do pitch dark at 8 am.
Agree. Just leave it alone. It's really not much of an inconvenience and I question how much we benefit from changing.
If they are going to change it, ditch DST. The pleasure of sunlight until after 9pm isn't enough to overcome the gloom of darkness at 8am in the winter.
Just like letting me pump my own gas in NJ. They dangle this out there every few years then it disappears.
Because it’s scary and confusing for so many and frankly, apparently the only thing anyone can agree on in DC. But I’d really go all Trump on this - make it so there are no time zones and everyone has to work a 9-5 day regardless of where they are in the world. Behold - the UniClock.
Don’t know what I was thinking but they have 11 time zones but not DST
A lot depends on where you live. In the east I could kind of understand it. But here in the Southwest just pick one and stick with it. AZ doesn't do it unless you get on a Navajo Rez. which does follow it.
Haven't there been studies though, that show car accidents increase that first week of the time change?
Yeah, I think I've seen something like that. To the contrary, I also think there is a decrease in crime when there are longer summer daylight hours.
I would suspect that there could also be more car crashes from people driving in the dark in the winter mornings.
The main reason is studies done show it's not healthy especially for people on the East coast
Well, we tried eliminating DST before and it was very unpopular, ending after just 8 months.
I think there were a number of kids killed in a morning car accident. Florida maybe?
No idea ... Just relaying the studies they have done on how it really negatively affects people. Much more than originally thought as well as cost businesses money. Question will be which time do they use
Everyone seems to love the late summers. But man will winter mornings blow, especially up here in the north. Tough call.
That’s actually not unpossible.
India has one time zone across their country and it’s X hours + 30 minutes out of phase with our U.S. time zones.