Daylight Savings Time (home, school, live)

[Hebrews12]

Last week I was telling friends how nice it is to have it lighter in the morning. Now we've moved to DST, moved our clocks ahead and it's not light as early anymore.

I'm really hoping this will be the year we stick to standard time. I'm tired of this nonsense and see no reason for it.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/ne...-standard-time

[Hebrews12]

And Standard Time is the only way to go, in my opinion and according to many health experts. We need it lighter in the morning. We don't need it light at 10pm in the summer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/welln...ealth-effects/

[roodd279]

Nope. Let's stick with DST. Early morning daylight helps very few people. After-work daylight helps that portion of the nation which can do nothing after work all winter because it's frozen tundra.



I need time to cut my lawn (not needed in winter, not possible before work) - and 1000 other things. Kids are off school in the summer - so that dads can bike, fish, run, swim, sport, build, repair - the list goes on - with them for as long as possible AFTER WORK - since before work - it is dang difficult to go hunting or get a round of golf in. For you people who love standard time - when do you Live your Life? The Morning Commute?



For a long - long - time we have managed to change the clock and no one whined. Much of Europe, South America, and other places ALSO change time - pretty sure they won't follow suit with a fixed time. No one there is whining.

[roodd279]

We don't need it light at 10pm in the summer.

The latest sunset time here in Ohio is 846pm. Not sure where you live that it's 10pm. North Dakota, maybe? Northern Michigan? A few places, yep - but not most. But even with an 846 sunset - sunRISE is 6am. So, yep, a few folks commuting in the dark - but hardly the majority.



But let's push sunset back to 746pm. That means that everything you EVER do in your life - after work - without lights - is done by 746. Most folks get home from work at 5 or 6. Do you think 30% more daylight (from 2 hours to 3 hours) makes a difference in life? You bet. It's the difference between a round of golf and don't bother. It's the difference between a little league game to the end...and let's stop in the 5th inning, it's dark. It's the difference having time to hunt and fish - and NOT. I can't mow my lawn and do related tasks in 2 hours. But I can in three. And about a 1000 other things. I just don't get it. When do you "early to rise" folks play basketball with your kids in the driveway? Not before work, that's certain enough.


You get home from work at 3pm or something? For folks that work until 5 / arrive home at 6 - those three hours are of daylight are critical to Getting Things Done in the Summer that are Not Possible in Winter.



In Florida, Dallas, San Diego (8pm on the solstice) - by comparison, Ohio seems downright gifted. You want summer days to END at 7pm for those people? The difference between dark at 7 and dark at 8 - since ya get home at 7 - that's TWICE the amount of useful daylight - and you want to remove it from them so you don't drive to work in the dark. (Sunrise is already 540AM in those places - so not dark there either.)

[rantiquity]

Originally Posted by roodd279

Nope. Let's stick with DST. Early morning daylight helps very few people. After-work daylight helps that portion of the nation which can do nothing after work all winter because it's frozen tundra.

Actually Daylight savings time helps farmer and children who have be at school early. In this day and age children walking to school in the dark is not safe as it was years ago.

[ejisme]

I think most people don't enjoy the few days after a time change.

I enjoy the later spring and summer evening daylight of daylight savings time. I also used to enjoy the earlier darkness on Halloween, but when the time change was moved it's still daylight to twilight for the trick or treating prime time. Minor inconvenience, but something I wish was different every year.

My guess: the standard time folks are likely prominently retired, so have all day to take care of things, and enjoy the light.

[Hemlock140]

I agree if only to avoid the time it takes to change all of the clocks. Sure, the modern vehicles, tablets, computers, iPhones and smart watches all change themselves, but I have a battery-powered clock, the stove and microwave, a travel alarm clock, and 3 light-control timers that all have to be changed. Then since I commute to work 2 days a week at 5am, just as it's starting to get light as I arrive, it's now dark until I've been working for an hour. There just isn't any reason for it, other than "we've been doing it since 1918."

[NeutralZone]

Originally Posted by Hebrews12

Last week I was telling friends how nice it is to have it lighter in the morning. Now we've moved to DST, moved our clocks ahead and it's not light as early anymore.

I'm really hoping this will be the year we stick to standard time. I'm tired of this nonsense and see no reason for it.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/ne...-standard-time

I get up early and also was loving it that it was finally getting light out around 6:20 am. Now it’s pitch black at 7 am. I hate it. If they’re going to insist on DST, why not wait another month, so at least it’s not so dark in the morning.

[Roboteer]

Originally Posted by Hebrews12

Last week I was telling friends how nice it is to have it lighter in the morning. Now we've moved to DST, moved our clocks ahead and it's not light as early anymore.

I'm really hoping this will be the year we stick to standard time. I'm tired of this nonsense and see no reason for it.

We turned the clocks forward one hour yesterday, now we're on Daylight Savings Time. Now dawn is around 6:45AM (and that will get better as spring progresses), and we "get an extra hour" in the evening.

I'd like to STAY on daylight savings time permanently - Let's NOT "Fall Back" this November, or ever again.

[Hebrews12]

Originally Posted by rantiquity

Actually Daylight savings time helps farmer and children who have be at school early. In this day and age children walking to school in the dark is not safe as it was years ago.

Standard time gives light earlier in the morning.
In November when we switch back to standard time, we are moving the clocks back 1 hour.

Edited to add: farmers are not dictated by the clock; they work according to the sun, temperatures, morning dew etc.