Daylight saving time

[AZ Jim]

Arizona does not use DLST. That is until our lawmakers get a bright (read, dumb) idea to change that.

Arizona is known for sunny days. In fact, the state gets more of them than almost any state in the country.
At the state Capitol in Phoenix, there is a proposal being considered that would make those sunny days last even longer.
Representative Phil Lovas, R-Peoria, has sponsored a bill that would have Arizona observe daylight saving time for the first time since 1967.
"I loved daylight savings time as a kid, and I think the fact we'll have more time to play golf makes it even better," golfer Claudia Mason said.

With a switch to daylight saving time, golfers could linger on the greens until about 9 at night in the summer. Golf, of course, isn't the motivation behind the proposal.
"I support it because I think it will help business in Arizona and help us be more competitive," said State Rep. Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix, one of the bill's co-sponsors.
Boyer believes the reasons Arizona opted out of daylight saving time are outdated and are potentially hurting the state's economy.
"I think we're less productive currently," said Boyer.
In 1966 Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which put the entire country on daylight saving time. Arizonans, though, expressed so much frustration about the change that two years later the state opted out.

In fact, its just Arizona and Hawaii that don't observe daylight saving time. Portions of other states and U.S. territories also do not observe the time change.
At the same time Arizona considers opting in again to daylight saving time, a handful of other western states are looking at proposals to opt out, including Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

"Well, yeah, it'd be harder to get her to go to bed if it was still light out," mother Veronica Hawkins said of her daughter.
An extra hour of summer daylight leaves parents hard-pressed to believe the change would do them any good at all.
A recent poll indicates 43 percent of Americans don't see the need to observe daylight saving time any longer.


Read more: http://www.kpho.com/story/27788244/...arizona-to-daylight-saving-time#ixzz3OFqI0WJ5

 

[Falcon]

A REAL bummer! I hope it doesn't pass.

 

[jujube]

When I was a teenager in Indiana, one year the state refused to go on Daylight savings time . However, any "interstate" carrier had to give their times in "federal" time, while "instate" carriers could use "Indiana" time. So, if you were taking a bus from Indianapolis with the route ending in South Bend, the bus was listed as leaving at 2:00 p.m. But if the bus was from Indianapolis to Chicago with a *stop* in South Bend, the bus was listed at leaving at 3:00 (or was it 1:00?...I can't remember which way the change went). The bus station, the train station and the airport had to have two sets of clocks and when you called to make a reservation, you had to be sure to ask which time the bus/train/plane was leaving on - state or federal. Everybody was missing their rides right and left. Thank goodness, that never happened again and Indiana fell into step with most of the US the next time around. I wish they'd just leave things alone and keep the same time year round.

 

[Falcon]

:thumbsup1:

 

[Georgia Lady]

I like DST. Nice to have the extra daylight when driving. But when tired and want to get into Jamie's, have to stay dressed with it still daylight. I also want to watch Tv too late and messes up my body clock. Then in winter, dark at 6 PM. I get very depressed and have to take anti-depressants.

 

[rkunsaw]

I like DST. Nice to have the extra daylight when driving

GL, we still have the same amount of daylight. The government can make us change our clocks but so far they haven't come up with a way to add more hours of daylight.

 

[AZ Jim]

Here's the update on this stupid proposal.

PHOENIX (CBS5) - An Arizona lawmaker has decided not to move a bill forward that would put the state on daylight saving time.
Rep. Phil Lovas (R-Peoria) said Sunday public outcry made him re-think the legislation. Lovas said he has asked the Speaker "to hold the measure indefinitely, essentially killing it."
"I have received many responses to the proposed bill, and while some have favored it, the majority of the feedback has been against the idea for various reasons," he said in a statement.
He said his decision will help lawmakers "focus instead on the budget, public education, public safety and the many other serious issues currently facing our state."
In the days since he proposed the bill, Valley residents chimed in.
"I loved daylight savings time as a kid, and I think the fact we'll have more time to play golf makes it even better," golfer Claudia Mason said.

Had a switch to daylight saving time actually passed, golfers could have lingered on the greens until about 9 at night in the summer. Golf, of course, isn't the motivation behind the proposal.
"I support it because I think it will help business in Arizona and help us be more competitive," said State Rep. Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix, one of the bill's co-sponsors.
Boyer believes the reasons Arizona opted out of daylight saving time are outdated and are potentially hurting the state's economy.
"I think we're less productive currently," said Boyer.
In 1966 Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which put the entire country on daylight saving time. Arizonans, though, expressed so much frustration about the change that two years later the state opted out.

In fact, its just Arizona and Hawaii that don't observe daylight saving time. Portions of other states and U.S. territories also do not observe the time change.
At the same time Arizona considered opting in again to daylight saving time, a handful of other western states are looking at proposals to opt out, including Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
"Well, yeah, it'd be harder to get her to go to bed if it was still light out," mother Veronica Hawkins said of her daughter.
An extra hour of summer daylight leaves parents hard-pressed to believe the change would do them any good at all.
A recent poll indicates 43 percent of Americans don't see the need to observe daylight saving time any longer.

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[BobF]

Way back when, after WWII had ended, most of the US states had dropped the DST idea and gone back to regular times. One state had two start and end times in the summers, for those wishing to use summer activities. So if you wanted more hours in the evening you could start work at 5:30 am rather than at 6:30 am and get off at 2:30 pm rather than 3:30 pm. Things went well for a few years and then some one in the US Congress decided we should all be on the same time schedules. Why? So rather than toss the handful of states still using DST in favor of the rest of the US, they ordered all states to go back on to DST. Once that was done most just did nothing about it at all. So we have had at least two states not on DST over many years now.

Personally I don't know why we cannot just let nature control our clocks as it has for centuries. Changing the clocks this way and that does nothing at all. Just get up earlier and do your thing as you wish. Or stay up later in the evening if that is your pleasure. I hope this idea of not having DST anymore becomes fact. The dairy cows don't worry about DST, they just need to be milked when appropriate, not when it is convenient to us people folks.