The most divisive subject facing this country Daylight Savings Time

[mcdawg22]

Honestly I thought everyone was like me and liked it getting dark late but social media has changed my perspective.
I would like it DST year round and here are some subjective and objective reasons.
1 I live on the far East of CT. During the summer it gets dark right at 8 which is earlier than I grew up with. The idea of it getting dark before 7 10 months out of the year is not ideal for me because I could not get 18 in. For those that say you can play golf before work, pretty sure my employer would not like me 12 beers deep logging in.
2 Public parks and rec would lose money. In late spring early fall kids practice baseball, soccer, lax in daylight, the lights would have to come on now.
3 Sunrise would be 4:47 in June, 4:15 in some parts of the country. That’s absurd
4 Don’t give me circadian rhythm natural time cuntshit. Time of day is a human construct, so spare me the nature ********. I fail to see how someone that lives in Columbus GA has a vastly superior quality of life versus someone in Opeleika Al because they are on “natural time”. Besides people wake up at all different times
5. I’ve come to the conclusion just leave it as it is. It seems like it’s somewhat evenly split although I think southerners for the most part favor DST. If that’s the case do not touch it federally so there is at least compromise.

 

[mcdawg22]

Also DS, you need to get ahold of On3 they have now censored cuntsh!t which is not acceptable.

 

[dorndawg]

I hate it when it is still dark at 7am. I know many others feel the same when it comes to missing out on it being daylight in the evenings. Therefore, as much as I despise changing clocks twice, I've come around to maintaining the status quo.

 

[dorndawg]

Also DS, you need to get ahold of On3 they have now censored cuntsh!t which is not acceptable.

It wasn't censored for me in your OP

 

[Tall Dawg]

It’s way past time for us to stop changing clocks twice a yr. Just leave it so it gets dark later and be done with this nonsense.

 

[mcdawg22]

It wasn't censored for me in your OP

 

[johnson86-1]

Should be DST year round.

I think the controlling factor should be that we are fat as **** as a nation, and we have a lot of kids getting ready for school during daylight that would be helpful for them to have to play outside after school. That seems asinine to me and borderline cruel. That obviously applies to adults also, but they can at least in theory get out and exercise before work, even if that's not what most people do. Realistically much harder if not impossible for kids to run around the neighborhood before school.

Obviously what I really think is the controlling factor is my personal preference, which is DST year round, but for public discussion, it's definitely for the kids.

The people that I think have a legitimate argument for the status quo are workers in things like construction. Moving back and forth may help keep daylight hours slightly better aligned with traditional work hours. But everybody else not wanting permanent DST can go 17 themselves with their ****** opinions.

 

[POTUS]

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Daylight Savings Time all year. I don’t want to have to get up at 3:30 to go to work in the summer.

ETA. And I’m not opposed to just keeping it the way it is now. They did this in the 70s once and everyone hated it so they went back to changing the time.

 

[GloryDawg]

I love gaining the hour but hate losing it. I like long days.

 

[TimberBeast]

The worst part about the winter to me isn't the cold, we live on the MS Gulf Coast, it's leaving work at 5 and it's already getting dark. I've always joked that I would vote for any president that would get rid of this crap. It makes no sense.

 

[Anon1711546381]

Daylight Savings Time all year. I don’t want to have to get up at 3:30 to go to work in the summer.

ETA. And I’m not opposed to just keeping it the way it is now. They did this in the 70s once and everyone hated it so they went back to changing the time.

Farmers work daylight to dark anyway, can’t see that a physical time would make a difference, once you get over the first couple of days, it’d be exactly the same.

 

[John Deaux VII]

Farmers work daylight to dark anyway, can’t see that a physical time would make a difference, once you get over the first couple of days, it’d be exactly the same.

Says the guy who probably ain't a farmer...

 

[The Peeper]

Its a love/hate relationship for me.

I love going home after work and having daylight till 8:00 or after when I have a project I want to work on.

I HATE going home after work having daylight till 8:00 or after when I have "honey do's" that SHE wants me to do.

At NO TIME do I enjoy going home after work in the dark..............

 

[maroonmadman]

I recently returned from a trip to Hawaii. They don't do DST on the islands. Maybe that's why so many people consider the Hawaiian Islands paradise.

 

[dorndawg]

They don't do DST on the islands. Maybe that's why so many people consider the Hawaiian Islands paradise.

Yep that's why*

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I wish we could compromise with 30 minutes instead of an hour and never change after March.

 

[Anon1711546381]

To me, the simplest thing to do is leave on Gods time and change the standardwork/ school hours.

From Labor Day to Memorial Day start work or school at 8 am.

From Memorial Day to Labor Day start work or school at 7 am.

Work your 8 or 10 and adjust accordingly.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Waking up in the dark sucks. It's bearable in summer but when it's cold it sucks even worse, so that would make it doubly bad.

Keep it the way it is. Gives people something to talk about.

 

[HotMop]

When I'm in West Florida during the winter it's dark when I walk out of work at 5, that's horrible.

 

[ckDOG]

Didn't we try all year DST in the 70s and we hated it? Before my time, but personally I'd be fine with it.

Probably best to leave it alone. I'd stab a ***** that wants to have sunset an hour earlier in the summer though. Standard time sucks for summer IMO. Odd that Trump teased doing that being a golf course owner. Feels like he or his advisers got the language backwards and never clarified after folks started getting worked up about it.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

I would rather have more sunlight in the evenings.

For those who whine about kids at the bus stop in the dark, you have the same effect int he PM. School activities, sports, etc., many kids aren't getting home until after dark.

A few days ago, I saw a guy, who appeared to be a fast food worker, bicycling down Lakeland at 5:30pm, dark as a drill sergeant's heart and dangerous as hell. That's in Flowood were few people cycle, think of bigger cites where cycling to/from work is a way of life. Folks bike to work in the AM, but if you leave home at dark, your eyes are adjusted to the dark, plus a lot more delivery vehicles and other traffic out in the afternoons.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

This was done before in the 70's. Congress voted overwhelming for permanent DST in 1974 and then even more overwhelming to revert back to the time change as it currently is in 1975. It became wildly unpopular as kids were run over at bus stops and productivity at work plummeted from the dark morning hours.

I'm a fan personally, but I don't think it will stick if it happens.

ETA it doesn't get dark out this way until 10:00 in Late June or July. I remember taking this picture in the 15th hole at almost 9 o'clock thinking how wonderful it is to tee off at 6 pm and still at an easy 18 with nobody rushing because of the lack of light.

 

[johnson86-1]

This was done before in the 70's. Congress voted overwhelming for permanent DST in 1974 and then even more overwhelming to revert back to the time change as it currently is in 1975. It became wildly unpopular as kids were run over at bus stops and productivity at work plummeted from the dark morning hours.

I'm a fan personally, but I don't think it will stick if it happens.

I think that was mainly politicians being idiots. I think around 42% of people wanted to keep permanent DST, which while not wildly popular, is not crazy unpopular either when you take into account people that are indifferent.

The kids getting run over at bus stops was just a "summer of shark attacks" type phenomenon. There was a slight uptick in early hour accidents and a slight decrease in later hour accidents, exactly like you're expect.

How many people not supporting permanent DST were not supporting it because they were suckered by the safety aspect of it? How many were relatively indifferent to it, and whether they said they liked it or not depending on whether you asked them after work in the sunlight or early during teh workday when it was dark? How many people just still hadn't adjusted to it?

I think there will definitely be some grumbling if/when the change is made, but I don't think it's going to be more unpopular than the status quo.

 

[mcdawg22]

When I'm in West Florida during the winter it's dark when I walk out of work at 5, that's horrible.

Yup, you are even closer to the line than I am.

 

[HailStout]

Time is used by the dems and/or MAGA’s to control the sheep. Do your research.

#timeisnotreal

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Time is used by the dems and/or MAGA’s to control the sheep. Do your research.

#timeisnotreal

 

[mcdawg22]

Didn't we try all year DST in the 70s and we hated it? Before my time, but personally I'd be fine with it.

Probably best to leave it alone. I'd stab a ***** that wants to have sunset an hour earlier in the summer though. Standard time sucks for summer IMO. Odd that Trump teased doing that being a golf course owner. Feels like he or his advisers got the language backwards and never clarified after folks started getting worked up about it.

I think he got it backwards too. Florida leadership is all for DST year round. At one point there were rumblings of going DST all year long and and making the entire state ET. It would have been interesting for the Credit Union I worked for because we had branched in Alabama, so Nov-March there would have been a 2 hour time difference. Our Investment guys could meet a client in Pensacola at 9 for 30 minutes then drive to Eastern Shore to meet a client at 8:00.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Farmers work daylight to dark anyway, can’t see that a physical time would make a difference, once you get over the first couple of days, it’d be exactly the same.

Not necessarily. I like playing with my kids in the evening when we don’t have late days but you stick to the stereotype if you want.

 

[PBRME]

At this point I don’t care if it’s standard or savings. Pick one and stick with it. 17 time change.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Recent article:

Americans weigh in on Trump's Daylight Savings policy

Nearly half of Americans would support Donald Trump's plan to abolish Daylight Saving Time, an exclusive DailyMail.com poll has revealed. It is set to energize Trump's plans to end the clock change.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[mcdawg22]

This was done before in the 70's. Congress voted overwhelming for permanent DST in 1974 and then even more overwhelming to revert back to the time change as it currently is in 1975. It became wildly unpopular as kids were run over at bus stops and productivity at work plummeted from the dark morning hours.

I'm a fan personally, but I don't think it will stick if it happens.

ETA it doesn't get dark out this way until 10:00 in Late June or July. I remember taking this picture in the 15th hole at almost 9 o'clock thinking how wonderful it is to tee off at 6 pm and still at an easy 18 with nobody rushing because of the lack of light.

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I had a friend that work at a resort in MT one summer. That ******* got back to State in Fall and smoked me on the golf course for 3 straight months because he was able to play at least 18 every day after work when he wasn’t trout fishing.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Then why not have school start later during that time? If it's running like 8 to 3 now, make it 9 to 4, starting an hour later. I don't have a kid aged for school anymore, but I would like to also look at a year school with less time for the school day.

 

[HailStout]

Not necessarily. I like playing with my kids in the evening when we don’t have late days but you stick to the stereotype if you want.

All farmers chew on stems of wheat at all times

 

[Chesusdog]

I just want to stop having to adjust my clocks/sleeping habits because some ******** decided it's now an hour earlier or later.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

All farmers chew on stems of wheat at all times

And overalls with a beat up straw hat and a pitchfork

 

[PBRME]

And overalls with a beat up straw hat and a pitchfork

I’ll just get my food from the grocery. That way farmers don’t have to worry about time change. **

 

[mcdawg22]

And overalls with a beat up straw hat and a pitchfork

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

I think that was mainly politicians being idiots. I think around 42% of people wanted to keep permanent DST, which while not wildly popular, is not crazy unpopular either when you take into account people that are indifferent.

The kids getting run over at bus stops was just a "summer of shark attacks" type phenomenon. There was a slight uptick in early hour accidents and a slight decrease in later hour accidents, exactly like you're expect.

How many people not supporting permanent DST were not supporting it because they were suckered by the safety aspect of it? How many were relatively indifferent to it, and whether they said they liked it or not depending on whether you asked them after work in the sunlight or early during teh workday when it was dark? How many people just still hadn't adjusted to it?

I think there will definitely be some grumbling if/when the change is made, but I don't think it's going to be more unpopular than the status quo.

It takes a little getting used to it being dark in the morning. Not just the safety, but more so the productivity. Construction projects are a lot easier in the light for instance.

Sunrise was 8:20 am this morning here. I was at my place at 7:00 am shoveling snow and receiving freight for the weekend. The Coca-Cola dude came in my service entrance wearing a headlamp that would melt the sun in a staring contest. One of my beer guys got there at 7:45 and was wheeling kegs in the dark no problem. But we are used to it.

But in lots of areas, that's going to be a big change. I have a feeling it's going to create issues. Morning traffic sucks already, add in darkness and it multiplies the wrecks in places like Dallas and Atlanta. I bet stuff that opens/starts at 8:00 starts getting pushed back to 8:30 or 9:00 in some cases and effectively negates the benefit of more sunlight in the evening since you work until 6.

Also curious? What's everyone going to do with an extra hour of day light n the evening in November-February? I always hated the wet, gray, muddy winters in Dallas.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

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Ok so who hacked my phone and got that picture of me?**