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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.

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Why are you feeding me an hour too early?


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Super Trucker said:
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.
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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...
 
BC38 said:
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.
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^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.:eek::eek::eek::eek: What happened to long, balmy summer evenings? For somebody like me born and raised around 52° N, 7 pm sundown is simply APPALLING!!!!:mad::mad::mad: 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.:mad:
 
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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...
 
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Super Trucker said:
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.
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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.:mad::mad:
 
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Daylight savings time was a solution created by politicians to solve a non existent problem. And now we're stuck with it, like many of their other "solutions". I spent the last 25 years in EH&S, mostly for manufacturing plants. There is a higher risk of injury in the workplace the week after time change. Our bodies get used to a certain rhythm and resist change.
 
Alk8944 said:
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.:mad::mad:
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I thought I saw a headline saying it was 4 in the last few days, I'll edit the above post since I'm not correct.
 
The time change thing is way more bad than good for most humans. PERIOD.

The “costs” of Daylight Savings ranges from $430M to $1.7B. The negative impact on productivity and human health is probably incalculable.

Arizona doesn’t change time because we have the most sunshine of any State.

The “whining”…. I’ve been active on internet forums since 1999. The whining is what makes any forum interesting and fun. Gun owners whine as much as any group, and most of the whining has nothing to do with guns. :D
 
jeffrefrig said:
I believe it's 25 or 6 to 4.
Or is it two 4?
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Chicago!! I saw them live in Las Vegas years ago. Classic music.

"25 6 to 4"...

"It is literally about the time in the morning, where the writer (Robert Lamm) has been up all night trying to write a song. 25 or 26 minutes to 4 a.m. 3:35 or 3:34 a.m. That is IT."
 
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