Daylight Saving Time possibly permanent 11/2023 (1 Viewer)

[kizzy821]

Do you save time by springing forward or by falling back? I never took the time to figure out which one was actually "saving time."

There should be a companion to the TIL thread called Things I Still Don't Know.

 

[bonnjer]

Been waiting on this to happen for a while now. Please let it go through. Getting dark so dang early in the winter is the pits.

 

[gboudx]

Do you save time by springing forward or by falling back? I never took the time to figure out which one was actually "saving time."

There should be a companion to the TIL thread called Things I Still Don't Know.

We are in ”saving“ time right now. If you are the Central time zone, it’s written as CDT.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

When did you move to Boston?

Yestoday

 

[St. Geezy]

Folks up North are complaining about the fact they will have to put their kids on the bus in the dark.

Get over it!

 

[Maxp]

Doesn't really make sense to keep daylight savings time permanently and move our whole country ahead of international time zones an hour. We should do away with daylight savings time period.

 

[Bill]

Doesn't really make sense to keep daylight savings time permanently and move our whole country ahead of international time zones an hour. We should do away with daylight savings time period.

Having an extra hour of daylight after work is actually better for the economy. The longer folks can stay out in evenings the more money is spent at a time when people would otherwise be shutting things down at home.

For example, our local golf course does twice the business because many golfers can actually get in a round of golf during the longer sunlit days of summer. It’s similar with other outdoor activities. Let’s keep daylight saving time as a permanent arrangement.

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

I don't like how they are trying to just push this through.

Obviously the daylight savings time lobby has the entire senate in their pocket. Not even a minute spent debating the possibility that we keep standard time.

 

[gboudx]

Folks up North are complaining about the fact they will have to put their kids on the bus in the dark.

Get over it!

They can’t be concerned for their kids?

 

[Semper]

Folks up North are complaining about the fact they will have to put their kids on the bus in the dark.

Get over it!

As a parent and grandparent I would prefer to have my kids get off the bus and have time to be outside for a little bit.

 

[faceman]

It doesn't really matter. No clock setting is going to change the length of daylight. Here on the GOM coast the hours
of sunlight are 10 hrs during the shortest days of winter and 14 hrs during the longest days of summer

 

[jrdbrn]

Thank God. If you want time to start earlier, then start your day earlier. There is no purpose for the majority of the United States to follow this anymore.

 

[Brad Mojo]

 

[Optimus Prime]

One of the crazier facts about life in the United States is this: For roughly two decades, nobody had any clue what time it was.

In office buildings, it could be 4 p.m. on one floor and 5 p.m. on another — an important matter for several reasons, including who punched out first to get to happy hour. People would step off airplanes with no idea how to set their watches. Ponder this head-scratcher:

“A short trip from Steubenville, Ohio, to Moundsville, West Virginia became a symbol of the deteriorating situation. A bus ride down this thirty-five-mile stretch of highway took less than an hour. But along that route, the local time changed seven times.”

That “deteriorating situation,” as historian Michael Downing put it in his book “Spring Forward,” is the reason that millions of Americans reset their clocks at 2 a.m. this past Sunday, losing an hour of sleep but gaining an hour of daylight...........


These were nutty times, Downing writes, with some localities observing daylight saving, some not:

Left to their own devices, private enterprise and local governments — which had repeatedly demanded the right not to alter their clocks — took to changing the time as often as they changed their socks, setting off a nationwide frenzy of time tampering …

Especially in Iowa, which had 23 different daylight saving dates. “If you wanted to get out of Iowa, you had to time your departure carefully,” Downing writes. “Motorists driving west through the 5 p.m. rush hour in Council Bluffs, Iowa, found themselves tied up in the 5 p.m. rush hour in Omaha, Nebraska, an hour later.”

The historian also offers this truly astonishing fact: “By 1963, no federal agency of commission was even attempting to keep track of timekeeping practices in the United States.”..........

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