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well I'm all set then as I never moved mine ahead last spring.Figured we would be turning back in fall anyway so why bother.
I'm considering this right now. Not falling back. But how do you handle appointments and such? do you just remember that you are an hour behind any agreed upon time? I think I'd get confused.
Arizona doesn't have daylight savings time and they don't seem to have any problems.
"Daylight Savings Time" didn't start until 1966 ~ a decision from the President. His reason for doing so has not been valid for a long, long time and should be changed back to the way it was. Everyone despises the time change twice a year.
Right now the sun came up here at 7:59A. I verified it. I'm in the Eastern time zone but I am pretty darn close to the Central time zone which runs through my state. This morning the sun came up in Dover Delaware at 7:29A. So, you can see where you live in your time zone can make a difference in how you feel about it. That's a half hour difference for how long it's dark.
I think this forum may be dominated by retirees who don't have to get up early in the morning, so don't care how late it stays dark. We get up at 6 for work, and it's a real drag to have it still pitch black. It's also hard on the school kids. But no matter how you slice it, winter days are shorter than summer days and we have to cope with that one way or the other.
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Originally Posted by getatag
Congress should split the difference, move it once but only back a half hour and call it quits forever.!!!
I've always thought this would be the best solution, one which gave a small concession to each side but didn't actually favor one over the other.
I think this forum may be dominated by retirees who don't have to get up early in the morning, so don't care how late it stays dark. We get up at 6 for work, and it's a real drag to have it still pitch black. It's also hard on the school kids. But no matter how you slice it, winter days are shorter than summer days and we have to cope with that one way or the other.
I've always thought this would be the best solution, one which gave a small concession to each side but didn't actually favor one over the other.
Might be, but I'm a retiree who gets up at 6:30 every morning. I prefer light both in the morning and later into the evening. For those with any degree of seasonal affective disorder, the lack of light is a real problem.
Although I work from home now, there was nothing more depressing then driving home from work at 5PM with it pitch black dark out. Add rain and cold made it even worse
This night time at 5 PM stuff is depressing. How can people stand it? Kids locked in the house at 5 because it's dark? Ugh! If they're so concerned about energy use just leave it DST all year. When getting out of bed in the dark to go to go to work in the morning, you run half the lights you do after dark in the evening.
Come on people, at this point you are exaggerating the effect that changing the clock one hour has on daytime light. If you live in, say, Chicago, the longest day of summer is SIX HOURS longer than the shortest day of winter. Even in Los Angeles where I live, there is a 4 1/2 hour difference between the longest and shortest days.
Fretting about going off DST as the sole cause of darker evenings is just silly. It's winter; it's going to be dark early.
If we are going to go through the exercise of moving our clocks back and forth, we should do it at the best time. The pre 2006 dates for going on and off of DST were the best, we now go on DST too early and off of it a week too late. The last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October are the correct dates to do the change. This allows DST to be during the good weather time frame of 75% of the country without causing sunrise to come too late.
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