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I hate the semi annual changing of the clocks in the fall and spring.
I would prefer we stay on daylight savings time (meaning hours in the summer). I know Colorado tried to change it a few years ago but the amendment did not pass.
I believe there are still a few states that don't observe DST
Arizona is the only state that has it right. This no longer is relevant and makes sense. I vote to stay on DST as well. I get very sad when it gets dark out at 5pm or earlier. It's not natural!
Arizona is the only state that has it right. This no longer is relevant and makes sense. I vote to stay on DST as well. I get very sad when it gets dark out at 5pm or earlier. It's not natural!
It's very natural.
On the shortest day (ie, daylight) of the year, the sun in Phoenix is up for 9 hours 56 minutes. Centering the daylight day on noon would result in this day (it's actually six days, when the amount of daylight hits its annual ebb) gives a sunset time of 4:58 pm. Of course, since time zones are 15-degrees wide, on average, the precise time will vary somewhat depending on a city's location within its zone. But for points well above the tropics - as is all of Arizona - this is perfectly normal.
Standard time keeps the sunrise from being ridiculously late in the winter.
Daylight time maximizes sunlight in the summer.
The price? A pair of one-hour shifts. How anyone finds such things onerous is beyond me. As far as burdens or hassles go, it's the equivalent of a hangnail.
I hate the time change and it makes no sense at all. I live in the mountains so it starts getting dusk dark at 4pm during Daylight Standard Time. I would love for Daylight Savings Time to be year around.
On the shortest day (ie, daylight) of the year, the sun in Phoenix is up for 9 hours 56 minutes. Centering the daylight day on noon would result in this day (it's actually six days, when the amount of daylight hits its annual ebb) gives a sunset time of 4:58 pm. Of course, since time zones are 15-degrees wide, on average, the precise time will vary somewhat depending on a city's location within its zone. But for points well above the tropics - as is all of Arizona - this is perfectly normal.
Standard time keeps the sunrise from being ridiculously late in the winter.
Daylight time maximizes sunlight in the summer.
The price? A pair of one-hour shifts. How anyone finds such things onerous is beyond me. As far as burdens or hassles go, it's the equivalent of a hangnail.
Ok maybe natural was the wrong word.
But I'll sacrifice an early sunrise to get a late sunset. I'd rather have it get light at 8am and dark at 6pm then light at 7am and dark at 5pm.
It's the equivalent of a hangnail to you but others may find it more burdensome. I go to work when it's dark and get home when it's dark. Not fun.
It takes up to a week for my body to adjust. And hate it that it makes the days feel really long in the Nov and really short in April (at least for a week)
Arizona is the only state that has it right. This no longer is relevant and makes sense. I vote to stay on DST as well. I get very sad when it gets dark out at 5pm or earlier. It's not natural!
Arizona is the only state that has it right. This no longer is relevant and makes sense.
Actually yes and no. Of course they are right to reject daylight savings time, but being one of only two states not to recognize it, just creates more problems then is solves. Basically to avoid having to change their clocks, the entire state of Arizona moves from the Mountain Time Zone to the Pacific Time Zone for half the year. What a mess.
Problem is that transportation companies need to have one uniform time system. So they need to recognize daylight savings time, even if the local area does not. So two times a year every transportation schedule (airlines, trains, interstate busses) in Arizona needs to be adjusted by one hour. Then six months later it reverts back to the original schedule.
National broadcasting is the same. How would you like to have the time of every cable TV program you watch change by one hour, only to change back to the original time six months later. What a nightmare.
The problem here is that without the shift, its dark at like 7am in Boston during the winter. Dark on the way home from work too. Depressing.
We are far enough east to maybe be on AST vs EST.
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What a mess. 
