Glynn863
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IMHO, just do a 30 minute world-wide timekeeping adjustment and be done with it. No more "spring forward - fall back".
Daylight Saving Time
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ggibson511960
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In my retirement with little else to do I seem to have become obsessed with time and weather, aided and abetted by the ubiquitous Iphone and all the weather services it brings me. One of my favorites is FlightAware that can pull up airport identifiers and read the instantaneous weather reports, METARS, updated every hour and reported in UTC or Zulu time. I can see the wisdom in shifting everybody to Zulu time and dispensing with all this nonsense once and for all.
I propose using Mike Time, +12 hours from UTC.
No reason other than to just to throw the rest of the world out of whack.
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pantannojack
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Set your clock by High Noon. Leave it there until further notice.
Pretty much true for Anchorage too. I can remember getting off a plane there at around 11pm in June, and it was still dusk. I can also remember being there in mid-October when it there was only about 8 hours of sunlight and dusk was around 3pm. Never went there in the dead of winter, but everyone said they got about a couple of hours of weak dawn/dusk sunlight around noon.
Does anybody really care?
Oops! Just saw that several others beat me to it. Oh well.
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DST NEVER made any sense. It is so ridiculous only politicians would willingly endorse such nonsense. 
LOL, tell us how that works out for you when you show up for a doctor's appointment an hour later than expected.
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The world is at war. Politics are absolutely crazy. There are factions that want to take our guns away. Safety and security in the USA are questionable. We have criminals running rampant. Yada, yada, yada.
This thread has made me feel better. It has made me forget how bad things really are. Maybe we should direct our complaints in a different direction.
This thread has made me feel better. It has made me forget how bad things really are. Maybe we should direct our complaints in a different direction.
I live at about the same latitude as you.
I understand what you're saying, but don't see the problem.
So, the kiddos go to school while it is still dark, but by the time they get to go outside the school building (for recess) the sun is up.
So, how is that a problem? I guess I don't understand your point.
Especially since staying on DST would also mean that they get to go home BEFORE sundown - and maybe get to play outdoors for a couple of hours before it gets dark. Where's the harm in that?
The other thing to consider is that we are talking about the coldest months of winter. Do MT schools even let the kids go outside for recess when the winter temps are so low?
IIRC, Spokane schools keep the kids inside during the coldest winter months. So, what is gained by the "fall back" time shift?
Maybe I'm missing something...
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LVSteve
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You are missing understanding of the need for light early in the day. Don't worry, because I don't have it either.
Light AFTER work is 10 times more useful than light before. Why? Because in the morning you are always fretting about when you need to get cleaned up and leave for work. Light in the evening means you can work until you cannot see and then get cleaned up.Yendor357
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Here in Indiana, we had it perfect. We never touched out clocks. It was perfect. Then the politicians had to “fix” it. Now we are just as screwed up as the rest of the country. We all HATE it.
I haven't the time to fret over DST as the escalating cost of cocktails has me otherwise flummoxed.
The risk of springing back is we may get stuck in an infinite loop.
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charlie sherrill
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I'm 77 and retired. I don't care what time it is as long as I can make my doctor appointments on time.
