I'm all for killing DST...I hate getting up at 2 AM twice a year to set my clock back or forward an hour...
No more DST!
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I may have misunderstood but I think the way our local news stations presented it was that the change, if implemented, would make DST permanent, thus the clocks stay bumped up an hour as they are now.
Oh well, I usually have to get up around that time to pee anyway.I'm all for killing DST...I hate getting up at 2 AM twice a year to set my clock back or forward an hour...
Whatever they decide is OK with me....just leave it alone and quit movin' it back and forth, for cryin' out loud!
Just my2 cents 5 cents (inflation! ). 
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Of course it isn't over when they kill off DST. Then congress has to deal with all the "bring back DST" movements that will inevitably follow.Whatever they decide is OK with me....just leave it alone and quit movin' it back and forth, for cryin' out loud!
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Wouldn’t it be racist to have Day light savings time? It’s not exactly binary.
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People forget that we tried year-round DST back in 1974-75, and gave it up. Year-round DST seems like a great idea when the days are long and the nights are short. Come next winter, a lot of people living in northern latitudes will have severe buyer's remorse. Getting up, getting the kids to school, then going to work yourself in the dark loses its thrill. You'll have people demanding to change it back.
In my opinion, the real flaw with DST is that it starts too early and ends too late. Starting it in early March is counterproductive; the days aren't long enough yet. Putting it back to a late April start date would be far more sensible. By then dawn is early enough where few will miss moving the daylight hour from the morning to the evening. In particular, once school is out for the summer, DST works great. But in the winter it is a disaster.
Mark my words - if year-round DST gets approved at the federal level, it will last (at most) two years before people demand to go back to standard time in the winter, with some states making the transition on their own.
Timokreon
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People either go to work when it's dark or come home when it's work. City life of spending 1-3 hours on a train or vehicle. Gonna happen regardless.
Same as kids getting on the bus. Spend 1-3 hours depending on traffic and other factors, kids are going to be getting on or off the bus when it's dark.
I live up north, much rather have the extra day at night. At least then I can get things done outside with light still available.
They REALLY need to get this passed and be done with it.
Same as kids getting on the bus. Spend 1-3 hours depending on traffic and other factors, kids are going to be getting on or off the bus when it's dark.
I live up north, much rather have the extra day at night. At least then I can get things done outside with light still available.
They REALLY need to get this passed and be done with it.
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Having lived in Vermont myself, "mushroom season" was regarded as much more tolerable when you had the extra daylight hour in the morning. What will really push the issue is kids going to school long before the sun rises. Parents hate that.
Like I said, we've tried this before. People don't change. The same objections will arise as they did 40+ years ago, and year-round DST will eventually be repealed if enacted.
iwanttosee
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Since 1968, Arizona has no DST.
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SodFather09
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I can see Biden messing this up somehow like he does all the other simple tasks , sorry but he has a hard time a lot of the time
Yes we have clocks that automatically change DST. I guess if they pass this it means we will have to change these clocks to the real time twice a year or get new clocks, our clocks don't have the option to cancel this feature.
I'll believe it when I see it. Now, if it had anything to do with, lets say for example, changing the flag colors to RAINBOW, that shit would be passed overnight! I am neither for or against it. I do like the extra hours at night though. I get a lot chores done then.
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When I lived in Arizona, the reason for that became very clear to me. It gets so hot that you want to get as much done as possible in the early morning when it is coolest. There's a lot of activity that takes place between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m., just to avoid 110 degree temperatures.
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Your clocks can't be made to just be "dumb" clocks? As in, you set the time and that is it?
Hawaii and Arizona don't even have DST. What if you use your clocks in those two states?
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Most clocks, automatic adjustment clocks, let you select DST or not.
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I think 74 and 75 was just an extended DST. They started it in January of 74, but still turned the clocks back in late October? They did February in 75, but still adjusted them back in late October? I was a kid in Middle school back then. I don't even remember those events. As an adult today, I go to work in the morning in the dark, work all day in a building without windows and in the winter months, go home in the dark, also. The only time I get to see sunshine is 2 days on the weekend, provided there is sunshine and not rain or snow. I know my brain will like the lack of jockeying clock times twice a year.
Daylight Saving Time 1974 in the United States
When do the clocks spring forward or fall back in United States? Daylight Saving Time for 2024 and other years.
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