Time changes

[Glenn's Take]

Keep it lighter later year round for me.

BTW, I explained the options because a lot of people say they want to stop daylight savings time even though they like it staying light later at night.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

I'm always going to go with "lighter later" - that time is much more useful and productive.

Who gives a **** if it's dark on your drive in to work.

In fact, I LIKE it still dark when I'm driving into work. Because I'm usually not in a good mood, and the last thing I want to see is other fvcking people while I'm constantly having to dick around with the sun visor to deal with that "low in the sky" blinding sunlight blasting through the windshield.

So:

Not having to look at people.

No blinding sunlight.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Switch to metric time

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

I think we should switch to: "In my OWN time."


work: I'll be there, rest assured. Just waiting for the right time.

etc.

 

[cricket3]

Staying in daylight savings time in the Eastern time zone will never work unless it’s done nationwide. If Kentucky chose to keep daylight savings year round they would have their own time zone 1 hour ahead of Eastern time 4 months out of the year.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

I assumed the options were for a national time standard/policy.

That said, what would be the grave consequence of going your own way re: time zone?

Indiana did it for decades.

 

[cricket3]

The Champions Classic tipping at 11.

 

[Glenn's Take]

I did mean nationwide.

 

[IdaCat]

We're going to need to invest at least $1 trillion to fund grants for top social pseudoscientists and academics to study it so we can adopt a solution that best satisfies Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Probably should just add it to the Global Warming, I mean Climate Change agenda. It's a good fit and by adding more taxes for continued funding it should help us realign world economies and Build Back Better.

Hell, maybe Bill Gates can add a feature to that **** he wants to shoot into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space and have it also control the Earth's rotation and tilt?

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

I just never change my clocks. Problem solved

 

[J_Dee]

I'm fine with keeping it as it is. But I'm clearly in the minority.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I dont need it to be sunny at 8pm.. I just don't want it to be dark at 4pm..

 

[TortElvisII]

If we stay on daylight savings time, by Christmas it will be getting daylight close to 9:00 a.m. in the western part of the Eastern time zone.

If we stay on standard time, in the summer it will be getting daylight at 4:00 a.m. in the eastern part of the central time zone.

The Earth will not stop tilting no matter what time zone we're in or how we set the clock. The way it is currently set up is to maximize daylight during the hours people normally are active. I have a hard time with how people do not seem to understand this.

 

[neilborders]

I’m glad the time changed this weekend. It was getting so damn hard to get the kids up and ready in the mornings when it’s pitch dark until 7:30am. And like someone said above, by full winter it would’ve been pitch dark until 8:30am.

IMO It’s just hard to be productive when it’s dark out. So I guess it all depends on if you’re a morning person or not.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

I prefer compromise. Move the clock half an hour forward from Standard Time, and leave it there year round.

 

[Hank Camacho_rivals115797]

Lighter later -- easily. Nothing sucks worse than getting done with work and it is dark every day for months. It makes it difficult to even go aside and has to increase seasonal depression.

Going to work sucks whether it is light or dark out. I assume that some safety nannies will like it lighter in the morning because it is safer for kids to get on buses, etc when it is light.

 

[chroix]

The only people I’ve ever known that were bothered by the time changes were hardcore drunks. Take that hour of bar time away and there will be hell to pay. Also the only people that thought it was a legit excuse to be late the following Monday.

 

[Glenn's Take]

I prefer compromise. Move the clock half an hour forward from Standard Time, and leave it there year round.

Not a bad idea actually.

 

[vhcat70]

Being dark till 9a by staying on DST is wrong to me. Not good for kids getting to school or drivers going to work, particularly on bad weather days. I don't like it dark at 5:30-6:00 but lesser evil imo.

 

[_Mav_]

Lighter later, hands down. Never have understood the "but it's dark when going to school/work" argument -- it's been that way since basically the first of October (at least here in God's time zone, i.e. central), so if you can tolerate it with no problems for 5 weeks then what's a few more in order to have an extry hour of daylight in the afternoon. There's a big difference in getting dark at 5:00 vs. 6:00.

 

[UKGrad93]

Lighter later -- easily. Nothing sucks worse than getting done with work and it is dark every day for months. It makes it difficult to even go aside and has to increase seasonal depression.

Going to work sucks whether it is light or dark out. I assume that some safety nannies will like it lighter in the morning because it is safer for kids to get on buses, etc when it is light.

I agree. The time change used to put my kid coming home from school in the dark, so what's the difference? We have light bulbs & electricity now.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

The only people I’ve ever known that were bothered by the time changes were hardcore drunks. Take that hour of bar time away and there will be hell to pay. Also the only people that thought it was a legit excuse to be late the following Monday.

Bars generally don't let patrons get that extra hour. We tried for years in college and into my 20's. No bar worker wants to work on an additional hour, that's essentially tacked on at the very end, when it's not even a prime hour for tipping. Might as well be keeping the bar open until 5am (if you're area has a 4am last call).

I hate the clocks going back an hour... but comparing the two as individual days.. I prefer the extra hour of sleep now that I'm older, as opposed to being out at 3am trying to get the bartenders to keep serving us lol.

 

[BankerCat12]

Let each state decide and really F it all up.

 

[TortElvisII]

Each time zone should be 15 degrees Longitude across. They have been toyed with and they are not. Depending where you live in time zone it matters. Louisville for instance has basically sun up later and lighter later by being in the Eastern when it should be in the Central. Evansville by contrast has sun up early and down early.

 

[TortElvisII]

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/#!cities=136

 

[vhcat70]

Any recall when KY stayed on standard time all year? We did till about 1968.

 

[Glenn's Take]

Each time zone should be 15 degrees Longitude across. They have been toyed with and they are not. Depending where you live in time zone it matters. Louisville for instance has basically sun up later and lighter later by being in the Eastern when it should be in the Central. Evansville by contrast has sun up early and down early.

Louisville used to be in the central time zone. It changed in 1961.

https://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0829/p2s2.html

 

[IdaCat]

nm

 

[Bill - Shy Cat]

My dogs don't give a damn about the time change. They expect their meals at same "dog time" every day.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

My dogs don't give a damn about the time change. They expect their meals at same "dog time" every day.

I too operate on my own time....

 

[WildcatFan1982]

 

[nerdcat_rivals308595]

We're going to need to invest at least $1 trillion to fund grants for top social pseudoscientists and academics to study it so we can adopt a solution that best satisfies Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Probably should just add it to the Global Warming, I mean Climate Change agenda. It's a good fit and by adding more taxes for continued funding it should help us realign world economies and Build Back Better.

Hell, maybe Bill Gates can add a feature to that **** he wants to shoot into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space and have it also control the Earth's rotation and tilt?

Always a Trumper to hijack a thread.