Should Daylight Savings Time be ended?

Murrmurr said:
Perfection would be if families could live on 1 parent's wages. In fact, I'm sure we'd have a healthier society if only 1 parent had to go to work and the other could work at home, or both parents could work at home and at least one of them had flexible hours.

I'm saying I wish this was custom, or tradition, or even rule of law.
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It is the custom, tradition and even the rule of law in certain places. Not anyplace most women want to live, but they do exist.
 

StarSong said:
It is the custom, tradition and even the rule of law in certain places. Not anyplace most women want to live, but they do exist.
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The places you're alluding to don't have the work-at-home option. I'm not suggesting that a certain demographic shouldn't work, however, I believe very strongly that raising children should be their parents' first priority, and that the cost of living in the US is way, way too high.
 
I remember that mess in 1973 and going to school in the dark.

I'm just grateful I didn't work this Sunday. After 10 years of 12 hour shifts where I worked Friday to Sunday, I dreaded that spring forward day.
 

There are so many time change movements apace you need wings to stay above it all (with apologies to a similar line from Apocalypse Now).

Massachusetts, I think I read some time ago, is dabbling in a move to Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Curious, too, as Massachusetts was instrumental in setting up time standards in the early years of the republic. Maine as well I believe is looking into AST.

China, on the other hand observes only one time zone and does not use DST. U.S. could easily do the same. We have six for the 50 states. Pick one.

Why this issue with time cannot be resolved here in the US is baffling. Paraphrasing Dr. Ruckman, "If it doesn't make sense, there's a buck in it."
 
Murrmurr said:
The places you're alluding to don't have the work-at-home option. I'm not suggesting that a certain demographic shouldn't work, however, I believe very strongly that raising children should be their parents' first priority, and that the cost of living in the US is way, way too high.
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Ay, there's the real rub. I've known families where both parents worked, yet their children were top first priority. I've also known families with a SAH parent whose children were low on their priority list. The first group's children turned out pretty well. The second? Not so well.
 
ArnoldC said:
There are so many time change movements apace you need wings to stay above it all (with apologies to a similar line from Apocalypse Now).

Massachusetts, I think I read some time ago, is dabbling in a move to Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Curious, too, as Massachusetts was instrumental in setting up time standards in the early years of the republic. Maine as well I believe is looking into AST.

China, on the other hand observes only one time zone and does not use DST. U.S. could easily do the same. We have six for the 50 states. Pick one.

Why this issue with time cannot be resolved here in the US is baffling. Paraphrasing Dr. Ruckman, "If it doesn't make sense, there's a buck in it."
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From a practical standpoint it makes no difference. Dawn and sunset won't suddenly be the same time from Maine to Hawaii, which is the point of time zones.

Moving to one zone or military time (don't have a problem with that), would mean always bearing in mind that the east coast part of the country generally gets going at 0830, central US at 0930 - 1030, the west coast at 1130, and HA at 1330. Hawaiians won't start eating breakfast six hours before sunrise to mirror NYs schedule because their clocks say 0830.

Don't see how it would be helpful to have only one time zone. Also don't see how there's a buck in it to have many.
 
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I think one of the problems of getting rid of DST is that other nations may continue with it. I believe most European nations and other observe DST. If the USA were to get rid of DST, and others didn't, it would create another layer of different times for different nations. Time would depend on leaving which nation, with or with DST , and landing in another nation, with or without DST. People have a difficult time with time zones, never mind knowing which nation observes DST or doesn't.
 
Murrmurr said:
But isn't it a whole lot easier to just set the clock forward or back?
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Murrmurr said:
But isn't it a whole lot easier to just set the clock forward or back?
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How about a compromise. We move forward 30 minutes, and leave it at that forever.
BTW, DST really has only a small window, supposedly to be effective, and that is exactly in the middle of a time zone. The earth keeps rotating, by the time the sun is overhead at the western end of the time zone, on the eastern edge, LIGHTWISE,, it's one hour later but still in the same time zone.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
How about a compromise. We move forward 30 minutes, and leave it at that forever.
BTW, DST really has only a small window, supposedly to be effective, and that is exactly in the middle of a time zone. The earth keeps rotating, by the time the sun is overhead at the western end of the time zone, on the eastern edge, LIGHTWISE,, it's one hour later but still in the same time zone.
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Well, that'd be easier than businesses and schools, employees and students having to change their schedules and hours twice a year.

People who live where the sun never sets for half the year don't have to worry about this, do they? I suppose keeping warm and avoiding polar bears is worry enough. ;)
 
I don't think people traveling from one nation to another really have to worry about daylight savings time. Anyone traveling in an east-west direction will have to change the time on their watch anyway (or their phone will do it automatically). They don't have to know, or care, whether that other nation observes DST or not. If they want to know the time difference between two places, they can easily get it by googling. Plus, all phones show international time.

So I think this is introducing an unnecessary problem. Changing the clocks really doesn't present problems to travelers as far as I can see; it's only a problem for the people who live there.
 
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