Day Lights Savings Time being locked in place for TN (Central: deals, business)

[Drake744]

Originally Posted by thesefourwalls

Of course, it will only be for part of the year as everyone else will still be changing their clocks around you. So you will still need to remember when the time changes and do the calculations anyway on top of it

Central Time is as late of a time as I ever want to be on haha.

[Antioch]

Originally Posted by thesefourwalls

Okay, I had to do a quick search to see what was actually being proposed. The title of thread read to me as if they wanted to stay on daylight savings. The first few articles to pop up look as if they want to stay on standard time year round. So, if that is the case the parts of the state that are on eastern standard time would be one hour behind the other eastern time states during the time everyone else is on daylight savings. The parts that are on central standard time would be two hours behind eastern daylight but would match mountain time during the time that mountain switches to daylight savings.

No, what it is saying is once we set our clocks up next week for Day Lights Savings Time, we would never set our clocks back when the rest of the country goes back to Standard Time. Therefore, East Tennesse would be on the same time as Atlantic once the rest of Eastern Time goes back to Standard time, and Middle and West TN would be on the same time as Eastern Time Zone.

[thesefourwalls]

Originally Posted by Antioch

No, what it is saying is once we set our clocks up next week for Day Lights Savings Time, we would never set our clocks back when the rest of the country goes back to Standard Time. Therefore, East Tennesse would be on the same time as Atlantic once the rest of Eastern Time goes back to Standard time, and Middle and West TN would be on the same time as Eastern Time Zone.

My bad, I guess I read an old article when responding to the earlier post. I completely forgot there was a link in the OP. That little error in the bill is quite comical. Gotta love watching our tax dollars at work So yeah, to the previous poster who wanted to be closer to Mountain time......in this case you'll be doubly sol when everyone switches back

[Drake744]

Originally Posted by Antioch

No, what it is saying is once we set our clocks up next week for Day Lights Savings Time, we would never set our clocks back when the rest of the country goes back to Standard Time. Therefore, East Tennesse would be on the same time as Atlantic once the rest of Eastern Time goes back to Standard time, and Middle and West TN would be on the same time as Eastern Time Zone.

That's what I always figured it would be, but I was listening to 104.5 yesterday and a state representative from Knoxville was talking about it and I could've sworn he was saying we (in CST) would go back into Mountain time, being two hours behind EST during those four months. Now, that doesn't seem to make any sense regarding keeping it lighter later in the day but whatever. I wouldn't say Eastern time "sucks", but for the way my daily schedule works out it would be really annoying to be in it, but if it happens it happens, and I may be back in Pacific time before next winter ends anyway haha

[eastmemphisguy]

I hate DST! Getting up in the morning is bad enough without artificially moving it up an hour.

[Big TR]

This is the best idea I've heard about DST.

The US needs to retire daylight savings and just have two time zones

When we were in Chicago, we used to have to remember what time it was going to be in Ft. Wayne, Indiana when we planned our trips to visit relatives because they didn't observe DST.

Two time zones is a great theory and should be done ASAP.

"In 1983, Alaska, which naturally spans four time zones, moved most of the state to a single time zone (except for an Native American reservation near Ketchikan and a few western Aleutian islands). The longitudinal distance of Alaska is nearly equal to the entire continental United States, yet the state functions, albeit with some tension, on one time zone. "

[TN Tin Man]

Is this CST day light or EST daylight.. or just a hour difference in day light savings..

[Wartrace]

I'd like to see the entire state moved to eastern standard time. It is a pain in the butt to have two time zones in this state.

[Drake744]

Originally Posted by Wartrace

I'd like to see the entire state moved to eastern standard time. It is a pain in the butt to have two time zones in this state.

To each their own based on how much one deals with East TN and whatnot, but the two time zones never affects me. The vast majority of the state's population lives in the Central time zone, but I personally think if it's not broke, fix it. And it's not broken.

[Memphis1979]

We just shouldn't have daylights savings time at all, anywhere. Not like kids are helping harvest the family crop in large numbers anymore