Daylight Savings versus Standard Time

spectratg

spectratg

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There has always been much discussion and argument about Daylight Savings versus Standard Time. I won’t get into all facets of that. The medical community favors standard time as being “normal” in accordance with our physiology--the sun being directly overhead at noon (solar noon). Many people, and much of the business establishment, like daylight savings because of the increased sunlight in the evenings during a great part of the year.

Most Americans don’t like the twice-yearly switch between the two, but cannot agree on which would be preferred.

I propose a radical idea! Split the difference! Have the clocks set at a half hour between the two competing times for the entire year.

This would initially play havoc with worldwide travel and commerce since the Untied States would always be at a half hour time when the rest of the planet is on the hour. However, I believe that all could eventually adjust to the situation.

What say you?
 

Standard time all year and leave it alone. This is not going to happen though.

If they had to do daylight saving time. Do it June to August or something. This half the year is nuts IMO.
 
They should turn the clock another hour ahead When dark begins at 7 PM in October.
If you are working its very dark anyway, and you go home in the dark when fall back happens.
November / December are basically depressing except for Holidays and days off. Why should
people be ordered to sleep an extra hour the 3rd of November. They would much rather go to
bed early with the clock automatically advancing an hour at 2 AM.

Sunrise today 7:15, Sunset 4:23, Twilight 4:55, still shutting down the combine around 10 pm.
Uber Eats will work well 2 !

Does time speed up or slow down the farther north ↑ - South↓ you travel. Or are you going slower.
 
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I absolutely hate changing the clocks. Two or 3 years ago there was a rumor going down that Congress was planning to change it, that we'd start having only Standard Time so it wouldn't be so dark in winter (maybe I've confused which time is which?). Alas, it hasn't happened and I hear no more about it. I hate these short dark days.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I absolutely hate changing the clocks. Two or 3 years ago there was a rumor going down that Congress was planning to change it, that we'd start having only Standard Time so it wouldn't be so dark in winter (maybe I've confused which time is which?). Alas, it hasn't happened and I hear no more about it. I hate these short dark days.
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The day length doesn't change, only the time governments assign. Less daylight after 4pm is balanced by more daylight in the morning. If any working person doesn't like getting off work after sunset, they can request their employers change work schedules to start earlier during winter. The reason retail and leisure industries like golf courses push DST is because they know many employers and infrastructure don't care so leave their operating hours the same all year regardless of season. But it doesn't need to be so. Urban transportation, government offices, schools, retail stores, and EMPLOYERS could simply change their operating hours with Standard Time, IF enough people merely asked.

They don't only because they don't need to given the annoying Daylight Savings Time change system that is an economic gimmick as I posted above in the link. Having infrastructure change operating times is not rocket science. In fact, most businesses already do so by posting different operating hours for different days of week, especially on weekends. So NO NO and NO have infrastructure add different times will be little different than what already exists. This whole controversy over decades has been a game manipulating citizens , pushed for their economic reasons that control big media through their ads and politicians through $$$ lobbyists. Of course it is the rich that play golf.
 
Right now our clocks are on (almost) eight months of Daylight Saving Time. The other four are Standard. It used to be fewer hours of DST and that was increased.

IMO, the hate for the changeover from DST is because of that hour that is reassigned and it feels like it’s lost.

Telling people they’ve lost something which really hasn’t been is just bad advertising
 
It's not like you're a bunch of astronomers, railroaders, or farmers here. Without clocks and an authority to tell you how to set them y'old buzzards might know before and after Noon and what night is... maybe. :ROFLMAO:

There truly are cavemen among us, riding in the boat but not pulling an oar.
 
The worst example I experienced, of messing with DST, was
when I went to help to build an airport in the Falkland Islands
in 1984.

Arriving at the end of May, deep in Winter, with sub-zero temps
24 hours a day, we survived!

When we reached September/October and the days were getting
longer, the company decided to change that clocks by one hour,
every two weeks, until we were at work in the middle of the night,
Port Stanley, 25 miles away, was at 6 AM, when the radio started,
we, were at 10 AM.

There was so much discontent from the workforce, the company
had to bring us back in line with the Island's local time.

Mike.
 
Every year I call our governor's office and complain about this and other issues including property taxes, the seat belt law, the lack of casinos and gambling here in Texas, etc. Of course, when it comes to doing what's right for the people who pay their salaries, the government rarely does.
 

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