States can choose whether or not to observe DST. They can be standard year round of they choose
Captain Pablo said:
The 2 whiniest days of the year are the clock change days
BMX Bandit said:
States can choose whether or not to observe DST. They can be standard year round of they choose
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However, when I lived in the north and DST was forced on us by the federal government in the 1970s, it was dark until almost 9:00 in the morning and even with DST it was still dark shortly after people got home from work. Elementary school kids were walking to school in the dark.
ThunderCougarFalconBird said:
Just make this insanity end. I don't care how we end it just make it stop.
aggrad02 said:
Why don't we just split the difference and call it a day and quit switching around.
Google pulls up the Daylight Protection Act: passed US senate but not (yet) house. My understanding is that states can opt out of DST, but can't go DST permanently.CDUB98 said:
I thought Texas passed a bill to stay on DST starting next spring?
rocky the dog said:
Definitely Not A Cop said:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344401-annual-us-clock-change-kills-33-people-and-36500-deer-in-car-crashes/#:~:text=Moving%20to%20daylight%20saving%20time,costs%20annually%20in%20the%20US.Quote:
Moving to daylight saving time permanently could prevent 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths and $1.19 billion in costs annually in the US.
This is just for the fall change. When it switches back in the spring, heart attacks rise 25%.
End daylight savings, and save America instead.
Definitely Not A Cop said:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344401-annual-us-clock-change-kills-33-people-and-36500-deer-in-car-crashes/#:~:text=Moving%20to%20daylight%20saving%20time,costs%20annually%20in%20the%20US.Quote:
Moving to daylight saving time permanently could prevent 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths and $1.19 billion in costs annually in the US.
This is just for the fall change. When it switches back in the spring, heart attacks rise 25%.
End daylight savings, and save America instead.
Get Off My Lawn said:Google pulls up the Daylight Protection Act: passed US senate but not (yet) house. My understanding is that states can opt out of DST, but can't go DST permanently.CDUB98 said:
I thought Texas passed a bill to stay on DST starting next spring?
I like it - but I'm a vampire who goes out distance running at 4 AM.TXAG 05 said:That's lame. Needs to be DST all year long. Who likes it getting dark at 5PM?Get Off My Lawn said:Google pulls up the Daylight Protection Act: passed US senate but not (yet) house. My understanding is that states can opt out of DST, but can't go DST permanently.CDUB98 said:
I thought Texas passed a bill to stay on DST starting next spring?
This was an interesting story which I was not familiar with, even thought I lived through it.YellowPot_97 said:
The US got rid of the clock changes once already. It was so universally hated that we went back to it.
It serves its purpose. You'll whine and complain for a couple days, then adjust and forget about it.
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Year-round daylight saving time (DST), signed into law by President Richard Nixon in January 1974, sought to maximize evening sunlight and, in doing so, help mitigate an ongoing national gas crisis. But while the experiment initially proved popular, with 79 percent of Americans expressing support for the change in December 1973, approval quickly plummeted, dropping to 42 percent by February 1974, reported the New York Times' Anthony Ripley in October of that year.
The main drawback to pushing the clock forward permanently was the prolonged early-morning darkness in the winter, which left children heading to school when it was "jet black" outside, as a parent told the Washington Post's Barbara Bright-Sagnier at the time. Writing for Washingtonian, Andrew Beaujon notes that eight students in Florida died in traffic accidents in the weeks following the change; in the nation's capital and its surrounding suburbs, similar incidents led some schools to delay classes until the sun came up.
Communists and terrorists.TXAG 05 said:Get Off My Lawn said:Google pulls up the Daylight Protection Act: passed US senate but not (yet) house. My understanding is that states can opt out of DST, but can't go DST permanently.CDUB98 said:
I thought Texas passed a bill to stay on DST starting next spring?
That's lame. Needs to be DST all year long. Who likes it getting dark at 5PM?
The states getting ready to make it permanent are, according to the article, and in alphabetic order: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.Quote:
The Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving permanent for the entire nation, remains stalled in Congress. But here's a breakdown of which states are getting ready in anticipation of its passage, according to a tally from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
tree91 said:
I'm sorry that it's difficult for you. The time changes are great.
Your flight departs at 10:03am.Quote:
It no longer matters at all whether the time in your town is a couple minutes earlier than the time in the next town to the east or a couple of minutes later than the next town to the west.
CanyonAg77 said:
You fans of DST live both further south and further east in the time zone. We're an hour's drive from Mountain time. So in the summer, with DST, we have sunsets at 9:05. Houston has it at 8:25.
It's really simple. People who work 9-5 love DST, because they want extra daylight. People who work when the sun is out; farmers, ranchers, construction, hate it. You work until it gets dark, come home, eat supper, clean up, and it's 10:30 at night.
Worst is when you need a part from town, and the store closed 2 hours ago.
I think that would drive me crazy, especially the sports part.gggmann said:
No time change here in AZ, but we're still impacted. All sports boadcasts are now an hour later, and a lot of meetings on my calendar shift as well.
That would depend on the time at the airport, I guess.CanyonAg77 said:Your flight departs at 10:03am.Quote:
It no longer matters at all whether the time in your town is a couple minutes earlier than the time in the next town to the east or a couple of minutes later than the next town to the west.
Is that Dallas Time or Ft. Worth time?