Daylight Saving Time

[bk42261]

Up here in Maine, next month we go to D.S.T. which means we turn the clocks ahead one hour. I suppose this made sense a century ago (maybe) but, as far as I'm concerned, if we are to move the time all, we'd be better off to turn them BACK an hour, as the sun's already rising earlier and it (obviously) stays light later.

Your thoughts?

 

[pharmer]

Leave them where they are. No reason to "Spring forward" at all. Joe

 

[Rustyt1953]

My cats know when feeding time is and my liver knows when happy hour is regardless of the earth's axis.

 

[WardenRoss]

Why are you feeding me an hour too early?

 

[johngalt]

I think the same whining is repeated every 6 months.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I think the same whining is repeated every 6 months.

Actually no. Time changes in November and March. Which, in and of itself, is as silly and arbitrary as changing the time.

 

[madmikeb]

Moved from Maine to Arizona, no time change, I like it!

 

[lihpster]

Really doesn't matter to me, just let me know what everyone else is on so we can meet at the same point in time, even if we can't agree on what hour it is.

 

[Super Trucker]

2 states do not use DST, move to one of them and be happy.
My biggest issue with DST is all the whining for a month either side of it twice yearly.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Cue the "cut the end off a blanket" crowd.

 

[BC38]

For my money, we should "spring forward" and NEVER "fall back".
I've always preferred having a later sunset over an earlier sunrise.
JMO - YMMV.

 

[SMSgt]

I kind of like working by sunlight at 9 PM versus using a danged floodlight.

 

[Buford57]

I'm leaving my clocks alone. If anyone asks I'll just tell them I identify as being on Standard Time.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Why are you feeding me an hour too early?

Whatever the question/issue might be, that is a GREAT pic

 

[Warren Sear]

4 states do not use DST, move to one of them and be happy.
My biggest issue with DST is all the whining for a month either side of it twice yearly.

The whining is far worse than the momentary inconvenience of re-setting all my clocks. Oh, yeah, and Like Rusty said, cutting off one end of the blanket and sewing it onto the other, and hearing about how dumb white people are. Again. And again...

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I quit wearing a watch when I retired. I set the alarm if I an appointment.

 

[LVSteve]

For my money, we should "spring forward" and NEVER "fall back".
I've always preferred having a later sunset over an earlier sunrise.
JMO - YMMV.

^This 1000%. Now some idiot in the NV assembly has introduced a bill that would get rid of DST. Apparently, there is some weird federal rule that says we cannot stay on DST.

OK, just move us onto Mountain time year round. Why do I say this? Because the proposal would result in our latest sunset in Southern Nevada taking place at 7 pm. What happened to long, balmy summer evenings? For somebody like me born and raised around 52° N, 7 pm sundown is simply APPALLING!!!! I cannot articulate just how wrong the concept 7 pm sunset in June feels to me. At the other end, our earliest sunrise will be 0423. How is that of any use to a civilized society with a sunset at 1900?

Pause for the early people to say get up earlier. You lot will never admit you are wrong, will you.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Does anybody really know what time it is?

 

[BC38]

Living here in the PNW, the winter months when we are operating on "standard" time means that most people go to work before the sun rises, and by the time they get off work and head home, the sun has already set.
So, they go to work in the dark and drive home after work in the dark.
If DST were adopted as the "standard" time, then a lot more people would at least get to enjoy an hour or two of daylight at the end of a hard day's work.
That may seem like a little thing, but even an hour or two of sunlight at the end of your day can have a BIG positive effect on a person.
JMO...

 

[Alk8944]

4 states do not use DST, move to one of them and be happy.
My biggest issue with DST is all the whining for a month either side of it twice yearly.

This is absolutely not true. There are only two states that do not observe DST, Arizona and Hawaii. And in Arizona it isn't the entire entire state since the Navajo Nation observes DST. Their reservation covers a bit over 4% of the state.

What other two states do you believe do not observe DST? Territories and possessions don't count.

Daylight saving time has been the law in the US for over 100 years! The Calder Act in 1918! No one on this forum has even been alive that long, don't any of you think it is time to grow up, stop whining, and get over it?

I do agree with Super Trucker about the ridiculous whining twice a year! It is really tiresome.