Why is daylight savings time needed in WA? Lawmakers debate today (Seattle: home, middle schools)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Yes, I flipped it. However, you live in New Mexico, right? Aren't their days fairly equal?

No. In winter, it gets dark around 5 p.m. (in December) Now, mid-Feb., daylight & dusk last until about 6:00, so we've gained an hour since Xmas, maybe a little more. In summer, daylight lasts until around 8:30 p.m or so.

It's in the tropics, like the OP's Hawaii experience, and Ecuador, where the days are equal year round. Ecuador is smack on the equator. It gets dark at 6 pm year round.

[Blindtom]

Originally Posted by Seacove

I'm fine either way but our winter days are very short in December and would be even shorter without daylight savings time.

Winter days would not change. Changing the time does not make the daylight shorter or longer.

[rupp-certified]

Originally Posted by Blindtom

Winter days would not change. Changing the time does not make the daylight shorter or longer.

Yes that's been posted like 5 times now

[41Willys]

I think the legal Washington weed is getting to you people. It gets dark at 9:30 in the summer? That would not change. The only change would occur in the winter. Instead of getting dark at 4:30-5:00, it would get dark at 5:30-6. No brainer! Let's make it happen!

[Botev1912]

Not if they remove daylight savings.

[rjshae]

I'll be happy not to have to change all my clocks twice a year. Not to mention the sleep adjustment.

[wahoyaho]

This is to stay ON DST all year. Summer doesn't change, and in winter, you don't move one hour back.
E.g. shortest day in 2019 is Dec 21st, sunrise 7:54, sunset 4:20, will become sunrise 8:54, sunset 5:20

[41Willys]

Originally Posted by wahoyaho

This is to stay ON DST all year. Summer doesn't change, and in winter, you don't move one hour back.
E.g. shortest day in 2019 is Dec 21st, sunrise 7:54, sunset 4:20, will become sunrise 8:54, sunset 5:20

Thank you.

[Olympian2]

Originally Posted by wahoyaho

This is to stay ON DST all year.

No, that's not the topic. This confusion has been caused by the OP not reading a self supplied reference before creating this topic //www.city-data.com/forum/54487697-post1.html, followed by others not reading the topic before posting on the topic.

OP thinks that state "lawmakers" are debating about discarding "Daylight Savings Times" while the debate is actually about staying on "Daylight Savings Times" permanently (which can't be done without Congressional approval).

[41Willys]

Originally Posted by Olympian2

No, that's not the topic. This confusion has been caused by the OP not reading a self supplied reference before creating this topic //www.city-data.com/forum/54487697-post1.html, followed by others not reading the topic before posting on the topic.

OP thinks that state "lawmakers" are debating about discarding "Daylight Savings Times" while the debate is actually about staying on "Daylight Savings Times" permanently (which can't be done without Congressional approval).

The same thing said differently. Ultimately Washington is looking at the possibility of not changing the clocks anymore. (Depending on how you want to present it) Personally I thing it is a good Idea to stay on the "Fall back time" permanently.