Daylight saving time is coming — and
the golf industry can’t wait
Chicago Tribune,
by
Margery A. Beck
Original Article
Posted By: snakeoil,
3/8/2025 11:27:07 AM
OMAHA, Neb. — Looking forward to more evening sunlight thanks to daylight saving time this weekend? Many in the golf industry like the time change, too, and they are pushing to make that annual switch permanent. The move is intended to encourage more evening golf and to stave off efforts to establish permanent standard time, which would leave less time for an evening on the links. And it is those late afternoon players who tend to buy food and drinks in the clubhouse. “We would lose 100 tee times a day if daylight saving time goes away,” ...
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/8/2025 11:54:30 AM (No. 1911354)
FTA: “We would lose 100 tee times a day if daylight saving time goes away,”
This is utterly moronic. If the clock wasn't changed - - if it stayed on standard time - - all that has to be done is to start the business day one hour earlier - - and voila! - - ther is an "extra" hour of daylight - - after the work day is over.
Some people are just so dense - - that even a crack upside their heads with a 2x4 won't knock any sense into them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/8/2025 11:55:37 AM (No. 1911359)
Kudos to OP! That's telling them!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/8/2025 12:00:02 PM (No. 1911363)
I always love the opportunities to 'do things' in the evenings, too. I don't golf, but I like doing other pastimes in the evenings. I like DST, but don't want it permanently.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/8/2025 12:14:04 PM (No. 1911377)
I am floored every year when I see supposedly sane persons become exercised over changing the time by one hour twice a year. They obviously never travel across the US let alone across the world. No longer play golf, but much prefer a little extra daylight iin the evening from March through November.
Re OP, will be interested in seeing how selling that works out. And #1's scheme.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/8/2025 12:15:11 PM (No. 1911378)
Silly comments ignoring that job start and end times, store openings, and many other things are set BY THE TIME, not by the amount of daylight; So, if there is an hour of daylight prior to you going to work, that is lost for any after work pastimes.
Not everyone is retired, and much of the world runs by 'clock time', not by daylight. DST time makes the daylight available after work, etc. when it can be used, not lost in the wee AM hours.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
konocti95 3/8/2025 7:18:26 PM (No. 1911406)
Let's get DOGE on this right now!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/8/2025 8:55:20 PM (No. 1911433)
Before I retired, it was nice to have time to get in a quick 9 holes after work. Doesn't matter to me now, but I realize it does to a lot of people. I am agreeable to keeping it like it is. If it ain't broke etc.....
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snakeoil 3/8/2025 10:46:32 PM (No. 1911464)
#4. Don't travel a lot. But do ever now and then go from the Eastern Time Zone to the Central and back. Not as much trouble as it used to be because my phone knows where I'm at and adjusts the time accordingly on the phone, car, and wrist watch. And at home have "atomic clocks" which get the time over the air from someplace out west. But still have to set the time every 6 months on dumb devices which is a waste of my time. I doubt people on ships run around resetting all the clocks when they enter a different time zone. Centuries ago there was no internet. There wasn't even electricity. There was no way to synch clocks. So most people followed the chickens. When the chickens went to sleep they did and when the chickens got up they followed. Does that make chickens smarter than humans? No, they can't solve differential equations or read Euclid. But they do know that daylight isn't controlled by anything alive. Twenty five years ago many were worried aboout Y2K. Only one program I used had a problem with Y2K. When the year changed from 1999 to 2000 it said the year changed from 99 to 100. More amusing than a problem. But I had one program that stopped working when going from ST to DST and I had to uninstall it and reinstall. Understamd that many people just don't want to change which is one of the reasons the metric system was rejected. But it's time for everyone to have the same time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/8/2025 10:52:09 PM (No. 1911467)
Businesses and schools run on a standard schedule such as 8AM to 5PM for most businesses. They don't change with the varying daylight hours. I prefer DST in the summer and Standard Time in the winter. It makes the start of the work day and the school day correspond more closely with the beginning of daylight than either time used year-round. DST in the summer gives school-age kids and working people an extra hour of daylight to do what they want outside, while Standard time in the winter means that most of them do NOT have to be driving to work -or waiting for the school bus- in the pre-dawn cold and dark. Switching the clocks every Spring and Fall is not the perfect system, but it beats the alternatives, hands down!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
homefry 3/9/2025 7:44:44 AM (No. 1911495)
I could have waited and had to when I got up this morning and the timer on my coffee pot had an hour to go.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
marbles 3/9/2025 9:39:30 AM (No. 1911535)
I deeply ,sincerely , really, really do not like " daylight savings time ". How is day light saved?
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Nonsense. How much daylight you get is a function of your latitude and the position of the Earth in its revolution around the Sun. Time zones established by governments have nothing to do with it. Time is a number on a clock. I'd prefer 24 GMT. Everyone would have the same time. So if you get up at 8 AM EST you'd get up at 1300 GMT. It would take 5 minutes to get used to.