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If the goal is to keep a steady sunrise and sunset time, it's not working well.
You'd need double the timezones you have now, and much more complicated changes in clocks.
It happened last night for those who don't know. Most of us turned our clocks back 1 hour which means we will have more daylight in the morning but it will be getting darker earlier.
I once read somewhere that an American Indian when asked about daylight savings he said
"Only a white man would cut the end off a blanket, sew it to the other end and think he has a longer blanket".
A pretty cool thought.
Why do we do turn back the clocks? Isn't the Winter gloomy enough never mind having it be dark at 4:30 in the afternoon.
How does daylight savings help or hurt you?
I would be happy if they did away with Daylight savings time. I don't like it when it gets darker earlier in the afternoon.
Daylight saving time throws my body off. It is easier for me to go backwards in time because I believe real time to be standard time. Obviously that statement is up for debate. I believe it is an archaic practice and I am so tired of the myth about helping farmers. The last change under Bush was pushed through by big business in bed with big government. Time to end it for good. Good to see states saying they want no more of it. I miss AZ because of this reason they don't celebrate daylight wasting time.
Here in South Florida, we don't get that big a swing. The shortest day of the year the sun sets about 5:45 and during the summer it only stays light until a little after 8PM.
Getting darker earlier only means one thing to me; SEASON IS HERE!!! Yay!
For the jacka$$ that comes behind me to tell me the above times are wrong, I'm just guessing. They are an estimate.
Thank you for this link. I too have heard over the years that energy savings are pretty much zero (#8) with DST, and that those supporting and pushing for DST include big retailers (#5), because we tend to shop more, go out more, use more gas, spend more money, after work with the extended daylight.
I do not like DST - I wish that those who choose to be 'early birds' did so on their own without looping me into it.
I wish I could 'let the sun wake me' once in a while, instead of seeing sunrise as I'm dashing around - trying to be the morning person that I'm just not.
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