Stop Standard Time Madness:
We Should Be Saving
Daylight All Year Long
The Federalist,
by
Kylee Zempel
Original Article
Posted By: Mauigirl,
3/10/2021 6:31:12 PM
It’s almost our favorite day of the year: the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, when we can fast-forward our clocks, stop the winter darkness that descends by mid-afternoon, and crawl out of our stuffy homes after dinner into the evening light. Amid Biden’s “dark winter” of COVID hell, the act of “springing forward” out of Standard Time is especially welcomed this year.
That’s why a glorious piece of legislation popping up in the Senate is a bright spot this week — not only because it’s bipartisan, but also because it would literally grant daylight to weary Americans.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/10/2021 6:40:00 PM (No. 720225)
I remember the good old days when our benevolent federal goobernment implemented DST during the dead of winter. To save energy during the energy crisis. Problem is, its Hades on school kids. Buses picking them up in the night during the coldest time of the day. Totally screws up international business and puts US businesses at a disadvantage. Yeah, lets make up time just like we make up our sex/gender, race and ethnicity. Nothing that nature and science has given us should be respected.
19 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
kono 3/10/2021 6:46:52 PM (No. 720227)
Extending daylight savings time to the whole year wouldn't increase the hours of daylight during the season of shorter days, when we go back to standard time. We would just replace commuting home in the dark with commuting to work in the dark.
25 people like this.
How about we ditch Daylight Savings Time, stay on Standard Time all year and adjust our schedules?
57 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/10/2021 6:58:23 PM (No. 720234)
This discussion comes up 2x per year, every year. Seems like we should leave it as is, some states follow DST, some don't, it's not a one-size-fits-all sort of thing. At the end of December, sunrise in Boise ID is at 8:18 am. I don't think 9:18 am would be better.
5 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
marbles 3/10/2021 7:02:13 PM (No. 720236)
I hate it. It's phony time. Without it I would still have more daylight hours because that's how it is in my location in the northern hemisphere on planet earth.
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
joew9 3/10/2021 7:12:09 PM (No. 720240)
Just about every year I go to change some clock and find out I don't have to because I forgot six months ago and it's back correct again. The TVs have auto DST. It never works.
8 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/10/2021 7:12:32 PM (No. 720241)
I love DST but then my daughter is grown, I’m retired and even when I was working, my job did not involve commuting.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 3/10/2021 7:13:44 PM (No. 720242)
Number 2, no, of course it doesn't add any extra hours to the day but, I know that I for one would love to have an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day, instead of having the Sun go down around 5:30 during the fall and winter. I have friends, including 2 farmers, who live in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and other placs where it gets darker even earlier in the day for them, and they would definitely love that extra hour at the end of the day.
9 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 3/10/2021 7:14:55 PM (No. 720243)
I’m with #3. Ditch DST. We already get more sunlight in the spring and summer, anyway. Quit being so greedy.
15 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/10/2021 7:26:11 PM (No. 720246)
I am for keeping standard time year round. We don't need an extra hour of daylight in Texas in July. Change the time to Texas time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
raspberry 3/10/2021 7:32:05 PM (No. 720248)
I can never get back to sleep after getting up to change all my clocks at 2 am as required by law..
But I am retired and no longer must let the government force me to get up and go tp bed earlier or later.
4 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 3/10/2021 7:39:55 PM (No. 720252)
Nothing will be done to stop the twicw a year clock re-setting. Huh? Why is that? Because, ladies and gentlemenn, boys and girls, bribes are not available on this issue. If big corporations A, B or C could make a profit by ths time change...voila, here come the bucks. Now if Antifa, BLM or communist wokeness from the universities wanted to get involved, by next Thursday it would be law.
12 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/10/2021 7:46:51 PM (No. 720256)
As a child I loved the extra daylight to play. In high school I wanted it dark as soon as possible. When I bought a house I wanted extra light to work in the yard. As a senior I really don't care either way. But, I do wish we could just do one and forget about the other.
11 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/10/2021 8:00:37 PM (No. 720267)
DST is good for the corn
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 3/10/2021 8:58:22 PM (No. 720291)
I HATE DST. I would rather have standard time all year. I don't need it light out at 10pm, and I hate it in March, just when it's starting to get light at a nice hour, it gets set back an hour. But I do agree that the twice-yearly shift is a pain. I would just prefer to have standard all year long.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 3/10/2021 9:01:02 PM (No. 720297)
#14, that's ridiculous. And who wants to be out doing yard work that late?
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 3/10/2021 9:07:37 PM (No. 720300)
I don't really care. Either is fine.
I have FAR more important things to worry about..
2 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
tsquare 3/10/2021 9:16:43 PM (No. 720308)
If one hour saves one hour of sunlight...perhaps we should save 6 hours...for the children, so that the solar fields operate longer and the streets and parks are safer.
1 person likes this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 3/10/2021 9:51:21 PM (No. 720326)
Let's just admire the stupidity of this. The author wants to eliminate standard time. He then wants to make Daylight Savings Times standard all year long. You just can't make this stuff up!
4 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/10/2021 10:16:53 PM (No. 720331)
Yes!!!!!
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/10/2021 10:56:36 PM (No. 720364)
Having been at Lucianne for well over 20 years, I know this will crop up twice each year with the same dreary arguments. I have never minded the change. And neither I nor my children nor my grandchildren has ever gone to school in the dark.
I do remember how odd it was to take our boat out onto Lake Washington after dinner - the one summer that we lived in Seattle - and enjoy cruising in daylight until 10 o’clock or so.. When you live in a place where the standing line is “What day was summer last year?” you’re grateful for some extra long days.
Here in beautiful Southern California, we continue to be fine with the semi-annual time change. And save our energy for other issues...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 3/10/2021 11:29:44 PM (No. 720382)
This is a plan is a joke.
The same morons who advocate this so they can have an "extra hour" of daylight in the summer
apparently don't realize that so-called permanent daylight savings time would result in the sun rising anywhere between 8 and 9 am during the winter.
Just do away with DST and be done with it.
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
snakeoil 3/11/2021 12:16:41 AM (No. 720395)
Don't lead a particularly exciting life. But I certainly won't miss having to reset 20 clocks every 6 months. The sundial is the hardest.
7 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/11/2021 12:41:29 AM (No. 720417)
One or the other, just keep it the same all year long.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Harlowe 3/11/2021 12:59:48 AM (No. 720421)
#11~ This household has made it a practice to adjust clocks forward or backward upon rising Saturday mornings to allow the body to adapt for the clock adjustment effective Sunday morning. Only one clock is retained throughout Saturday with that day’s time, but it is adjusted just prior to retiring Saturday evening.
The practice of changing time twice each year is not only a nuisance, but a serious medical risk as well with a 24 percent increase of heart attacks on the Monday following the adjustment to Daylight Savings Time according to a 2014 study in the journal “Open Heart.”
With absolute certainty, this household prefers remaining on Standard Time.
2 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
kono 3/11/2021 1:23:28 AM (No. 720427)
So instead of having it light out at 10pm, it's daytime at 4am. Not sure that's any improvement.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/11/2021 7:14:35 AM (No. 720500)
Just quit screwing with time. Leave it one way or the other.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Daisymay 3/11/2021 7:37:39 AM (No. 720506)
I have always loved DST. As a kid it meant a longer time to play outside after "Supper" Time. As a parent it meant the kiddos could play out a longer time (no they didn't go to school in the dark). As a Senior, in Florida for the past 20 years, I love having those long hour to be outside in the evenings to cruise in the Golf Cart or just sit on the Front porch and visit with the Walkers in the neighborhood. No, we still don't get up in the Dark unless it's a golf day for Hubby. Then HE gets up for an early Tee Time, but no, they don't play in the Dark!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 3/11/2021 9:53:37 AM (No. 720636)
All I know it that it gives me yet another opportunity to remind folks that this foolish practice was invented by a Native American who cut one end off his blanket and sewed it on to the other to make it longer.
3 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 3/12/2021 8:45:10 AM (No. 721599)
If the government persists with this nonsense, just open everything an hour later
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